ULIDs use 128 bits like a UUID but store a timestamp in the first 48, so they sort by creation time. Benefits for database indexes, how they compare with UUIDv7 and the trade-offs raised in the debate.
A practical roadmap for scaling infrastructure from one server to 100 million daily users: when to add a connection pooler, CDN, cache, replicas, partitioning, microservices, sharding and multi-region, and when not to.
JSQLite translates the SQLite query engine into TypeScript to read databases in the browser without WebAssembly. It is read-only, in beta and licensed under the GPL v3.
Coding agents need to understand a repository before they can safely modify it, a process that can consume a significant portion of their context window as they search for symbols,
Vector databases are becoming part of the infrastructure that sysadmins, DevOps teams and developers need to understand and operate. Behind many Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, semantic search engines and AI
Visual FoxPro has been without official Microsoft support for more than a decade, yet companies still run applications built with the platform to manage billing, inventory, orders, accounting, and internal
A developer has managed to run GLM-5.2, a mixture-of-experts model with roughly 744 billion parameters, on a consumer computer with around 25 GB of RAM and no graphics card. The
DBeaver has held a very comfortable place for years in the daily workflow of many developers, system administrators and data teams. It is complete, free in its Community edition, cross-platform
One of the biggest hidden costs in retrieval-augmented generation is not the model itself, but the storage burden of the vector index sitting underneath it. That is the problem LEANN
The market for backend services for web and mobile apps has long been dominated by a small group of familiar names, especially Firebase and, more recently, Supabase. But alongside those
