Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
Planet PostgreSQL
Nobody asked for max_notify_queue_pages. It exists because a limit that used to enforce itself stopped doing so, and something had to take its place. LISTEN/NOTIFY runs on a single queue for the whole cluster, stored as SLRU pages under pg_notify/ in the data directory. Through PostgreSQL 16 that…
Planet PostgreSQL
Two client connections, opened one after the other through PgBouncer transaction mode, asked the same database whose rows they were allowed to see, and the second one got the first one's answer. It had set nothing, it had never met the first caller, and the rows it read belonged to that caller's…
Semafor (filter tech)
Major Asian economies are profiting from growing global demand for AI.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3…
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
George Osborne also praised the country's efforts to solicit international investment and boost AI adoption. The post OpenAI managing director says Canada an “obvious place” for data centre first appeared on BetaKit.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs it.
Planet PostgreSQL
SourceDocsProduct page2026-09-17pgColumnar 1.0-alpha4 release notesRelease date: 2026-09-17 Previous release: 1.0-alpha3 (2026-09-02)pgColumnar is a columnar table access method for PostgreSQL. This is the fourth alpha. Its theme is layout and skipping. A table can now be laid out on the Hilbert…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Transfer Family now preserves the client's source IP address using Proxy Protocol v2 (PPv2) when you place a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in front of your SFTP server that uses a VPC-hosted endpoint. You can now retain visibility of the client's source IP for IP-based auditing, access controls…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies, enabling you to restrict permissions for individual runs without creating and managing multiple IAM roles. Until now, there was no way to dynamically scope down permissions for a single run, requiring you to create a separate IAM role for each…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
The five criteria for evaluating a database for AI agents are branch isolation, serverless...
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Batch now supports bulk job cancellation and termination, enabling you to cancel or terminate up to 50 jobs with a single API call. The new CancelJobs, TerminateJobs, and TerminateServiceJobs APIs reduce the operational complexity of managing large-scale batch workloads, letting you act on…
DevOps.com / Cloud Native Now
Komodor this week added the ability to deploy agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workflows using its platform for site reliability engineers (SREs) that manage Kubernetes clusters. Company CTO Itiel Shwartz said the Komodor Agentic Operations Platform makes it possible to deploy AI agents using…
Planet PostgreSQL
Role-level timeouts and read-only flags sound safe until you realize the session can change them in one statement.
Planet PostgreSQL
Ask a database vendor about on-prem and you'll usually get a one-line answer: 'we're open source, you can just self-host it.' For a hobby project, fine. For an enterprise, that line rarely survives contact with production. And enterprises want on-prem more than ever right now, largely because of…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS is announcing the general availability of new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon 6 processors, available exclusively on AWS, and built on the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. T8i instances deliver up to 30%…
Wiz Research
This post will explore what this new concept does, how it works with the new Account Access capability, and why a strong security posture still requires upgrading out of the sandbox.
Planet PostgreSQL
Last week, I spent three days in the Netherlands and gave two talks at two conferences: a lightning talk at PGDay Lowlands in Utrecht on Thursday, September 10, and a session at Percona Live in Amsterdam on Friday, September 11\. In this blog post, I’m going to share my notes from both. As often…
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology at the centre of an ambitious effort to rethink how large data centres are built. The Peerium…
Planet PostgreSQL
As a SQL Server developer and DBA learning Postgres, it’s easy to expect that the information you need for meaningful query and performance tuning will be readily available. For years (decades, maybe) you’ve learned the DMVs, set up Extended Events sessions, relied on Query Store, and regularly run…
Rest of World
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
AWS — What's New / News Blog
The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul). Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode, a new deployment mode that lets you run and manage multiple applications on shared infrastructure in your account. Provide your source code, a Dockerfile, or a container image in Amazon ECR, and Elastic Beanstalk handles containerization, provisioning…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Builder Center is now available as a mobile app on iOS and Android. Builder Center brings together the global builder community with articles on trending topics, hands-on workshops with free sandbox environments, community spaces, events at Builder Lofts, access to 600+ AWS Skill Builder…
Planet PostgreSQL
In PostgreSQL, every tuple starts with 23-byte header, and the first eight bytes are two transaction IDs. t_xmin for the transaction that created the row and t_xmax for the one that deleted or updated it. That is the visibility story covered in PostgreSQL MVCC, Byte by Byte. For now we have…
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
ENIAC (operating as ENILINX) has launched the TICKEY, a 3.7-inch color e-Paper smart badge and desk display built around an ESP32-S3 MCU. The device features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity, allowing users to update the screen from a smartphone without requiring continuous power to hold a…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This is one of the latest open-weight models from NVIDIA and employs a hybrid…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides a consolidated deployment view for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons, giving you a single place to see how far a deployment has progressed, what is failing, and what could stop it. This helps you monitor Managed Daemon deployments at a glance and…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
AI agents are moving from cloud data centers to vehicles, robots, and other edge devices. Unlike a chatbot that answers a single prompt, an agent works through...
Cloudflare Blog
A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-side attacks for analyst investigation.
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Kubernetes v1.37 brings important storage security features: emptyDir permission modes and bind mount options. They help application programmers and security professionals implement rigorous security policies, for example, prohibiting deletion of files across containers or execution of arbitrary…