Peter Zaitsev

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...

Whatever it is Self Hosted, Community Hosted or something else there should not be a single choice provided by single monopoly-enterprise www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...

Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner.

Tabs vs Spaces - where do different languages stand xn--gckvb8fzb.com/tabs-vs-spac...

TiDB Observability: Moving from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics Explore why TiDB migrated to VictoriaMetrics for enhanced observability, better resource utilization, and faster query performance.

Looking scale #prometheus consider VictoriaMetrics www.pingcap.com/blog/tidb-ob...

Do not download the app, use the website The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed

Yeah, push of some vendors to use their app rather than having web site work really well on mobile is common idiallo.com/blog/dont-do...

Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU 100x More Efficient than Arm?

This is interesting - rethinking how processing works indeed can open new frontiers of efficiency morethanmoore.substack.com/p/efficient-...

How we built fast UPDATEs for the ClickHouse column store – Part 2: SQL-style UPDATEs ClickHouse can do fast, declarative UPDATEs. Patch parts make it possible, with minimal I/O, instant query visibility, and high parallelism. This post breaks down the mechanics that make it all work.

Interesting post on how ClickHouse deals with efficient updates which is classically not an easy problem for column store clickhouse.com/blog/updates...

GitOps Journey: Part 4 – Observability and Monitoring with Coroot in Kubernetes Our PostgreSQL cluster is running, and the demo app is generating traffic — but we have no visibility into the health of the Kubernetes cluster, services, or applications. What happens when disk space...

Daniil Bazhenov from Percona shows how to install Coroot with #ArgoCD for awesome #observability percona.community/blog/2025/07...

GitHub - tidwall/pogocache: Fast caching software with a focus on low latency and cpu efficiency. Fast caching software with a focus on low latency and cpu efficiency. - tidwall/pogocache

PogoCache positions itself as even faster Redis alternative and unlike Dragonfly comes with #opensource license github.com/tidwall/pogo... Anyone tried it yet ?

Anatomy of AI-powered Root Cause Analysis Explore the strengths and limitations of AI-powered root cause analysis in observability. Learn why combining complete telemetry with context-aware AI is the key to finding real answers

AI Powered Root Cause Analyses (RCA) is all the rage those days, but how can it be architected ? Coroot founder Nikolay Sivko explains coroot.com/blog/anatomy...

Dynamic Database Credentials with HashiCorp Vault and FerretDB | FerretDB Blog Learn how to integrate HashiCorp Vault's database secrets engine with FerretDB to generate dynamic credentials for enhanced security and management.

FerretDB gets more secure with HashiCorp #vault support blog.ferretdb.io/dynamic-data...

Two years after the Unity controversy, how are things going with Godot? Two years ago, Unity's missteps prompted a wave of interest in the open-source Godot engine. Here's what happened next.

Interesting update on what has been going with Godot - #opensource Unity alternative www.gamesindustry.biz/two-years-af...

How we made ClickHouse log queries 99.5% faster with resource fingerprinting Learn how SigNoz achieved 99.5% query performance improvement using hierarchical resource fingerprinting for ClickHouse sparse indexing.

One of the classical tricks you can use for Clickhouse query optimization - keep the data which is often accessed together, located close signoz.io/blog/query-p...

Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media | TechCrunch Dorsey's initial investment has gotten the new nonprofit "andOtherStuff" up and running, and he worked on some of its initial iOS apps.

In the search for truly Open social media... techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/j...

AICodingHorrors | The price of AI-assisted coding, literally! AI Coding Horrors is a growing collection of real-world disasters caused by AI-assisted coding tools like sky-high bills, leaked secrets, broken apps,..

Interesting read. Not just about what tools may get wrong but about user expectations aicodinghorrors.com

Redka: Redis re-implemented with SQL A Redis-compatible Go server/package with a Postgres or SQLite backend.

Nice to see Redka now allowing you to use PostgreSQL as a backend for Redis protocol antonz.org/redka/

GitHub - toddstoffel/analytics_benchmark: Benchmark suite for analytical DBs using real-world SQL queries, Docker-based automation, and reproducible tests. Tailored for comparing systems like Apache D... Benchmark suite for analytical DBs using real-world SQL queries, Docker-based automation, and reproducible tests. Tailored for comparing systems like Apache Doris and ClickHouse with realistic data...

Yet another Analytical Databases benchmarks finds #clickhouse to be a leader
github.com/toddstoffel/...

Percona XtraDB Cluster: Our Commitment to Open Source High Availability Percona XtraDB Cluster uses an independent Galera version, ensuring ongoing open source innovation and high availability regardless of industry changes.

If you were curious what will happen to Percona XtraDB Cluster now MariaDB acquired Codership - Galera Cluster - you should no worry, development will continue

www.percona.com/blog/percona...
#percona #mysql

Microsoft Dependency Has Risks This is not an opinion, this is not an opinion... it's an opinion, isn't it?

Interesting discussion. I would not single out Microsoft here - any company has to comply with the laws of the country it is registered in. It looks like many Europeans are wondering to what extent US can be seen as country having fair and reasonable laws blog.miloslavhomer.cz/p/microsoft-...

What is your favorite example of "wrong way to use the database" www.luu.io/posts/2025-d...

Yep, I often mention this growing difference between "corporate open source" and "community open source". Great to see more recognition about this difference, which I think is still understood by way to few #opensource utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...

LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks : 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

Security, Confidentiality, Compliance will be a big deal for LLMs, though other time I think it can be taught to follow rules better than humans www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/s...

Tembo Cloud Migration Guide | Notion Timeline

Tembo Cloud is Sunsetting so customers need to move their workloads quickly. While I do not know if significant number of customers is impacted such announcements erode trust in small "indie" cloud offerings as they sunset abruptly tembo-io.notion.site/Tembo-Cloud-...

The Future Has Arrived: Parquet on Iceberg Finally Outperforms MergeTree Altinity's Project Antalya brings Iceberg support in ClickHouse to the next level - matching and in some cases outperforming MergeTree, while enabling cheap object storage and scalable, shared data sy...

Altinity, Inc. makes #iceberg and #parguet fast on #clickhouse
altinity.com/blog/the-fut...

How OpenAI runs #postgres at their scale
www.pixelstech.net/article/1747...

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Interest technical details of sneaky tracking www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...

GitHub - aws/pgactive Contribute to aws/pgactive development by creating an account on GitHub.

PGActive - Open Source Active-Active replication for PostgreSQL from AWS github.com/aws/pgactive - Any thoughts ?

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

It is great to see whenever things get messy with #opensource The Linux Foundation steps in. So on the heals of WordPress drama we have FAIR package management system announcement. www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

What do you think ? Will this project be successful/get any traction ?

Coroot » ADMIN Magazine Coroot

Coroot covered by ADMIN magazine www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2025...

Rate Limiting: An Interactive Guide Introduction Rate limiting is a must have strategy in every back-end service. It prevent one user from overusing a resource and degrading the quality of service for other users. Here are some benefits of rate limiting It presents resource starvation...

Wow, This is awesome! Love to see working of algorithms interactively visualized this way blog.sagyamthapa.com.np/interactive-...

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest Learn how Dependabot can be co-opted to exploit some sensitive workflows, through the Confused Deputy Problem and branch name injections.

It is a good reminder how automation can increase the surface for security attacks boostsecurity.io/blog/weaponi...