PostgreSQL 17: 20x VACUUM Improvement and Native Incremental Backups
PostgreSQL 17, released in September 2024, delivered performance improvements so dramatic they border on revolutionary. The standout: a vacuum memory structure overhaul that ...
PostgreSQL 50% Slower on Linux 7.0 – AWS Alert
An AWS engineer reported yesterday that PostgreSQL database throughput drops by 50% on Linux kernel ...
Mintlify Ditches RAG for Filesystem: 460x Faster
Mintlify just replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for their AI documentation assistant. The results: ...
Boring Problems Beat Trending Tech: QCon 2026 Career Lesson
At QCon London 2026 last week, Yinka Omole (Personio’s Lead Engineer) posed an uncomfortable question ...
PostgreSQL vs MySQL Benchmarks 2026: Performance Winner
PostgreSQL has dethroned MySQL as the database of choice among developers. The 2025 Stack Overflow ...
Grafeo Rust Graph Database Beats Neo4j 2-5x Faster
Grafeo, a new Rust graph database, claims 2-5x faster performance than Neo4j with SQLite-like simplicity. But Hacker News flags AI-generated code concerns.
PostgreSQL pgvector Delivers 28× Better Performance Than Pinecone
PostgreSQL pgvector delivers 28× better latency than Pinecone at 75% lower cost. Vector databases consolidate ...
Oxyde Tutorial: Pydantic Async ORM for FastAPI (2026)
Oxyde brings Django's QuerySet API to FastAPI with Pydantic-native models and Rust performance. Learn how ...
DuckDB MacBook Neo Benchmarks: Big Data on $599 Hardware
Apple’s MacBook Neo costs $599 and ships with 8GB of RAM soldered to the logic ...
PostgreSQL vs MySQL 2026: When Queries Get Complex
Recent 2026 benchmark studies reveal PostgreSQL is 3.72x faster than MySQL for complex queries and ...