Fri.Jun 06, 2025

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Finding Needles in Digital Haystacks: The Distributed Tracing Revolution

DZone

It's 3 AM. Your phone buzzes with an alert. A critical API is responding slowly, with angry customer tweets already appearing. Your architecture spans dozens of microservices across multiple cloud providers. Where do you even begin?

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PgBouncer for PostgreSQL: How Connection Pooling Solves Enterprise Slowdowns

Percona

If your database is getting slower, your users don’t care why. They just want it to work. Meanwhile, you’re stuck dealing with the symptoms: sluggish apps, spiking resource usage, and support tickets piling up faster than your monitoring alerts can handle.

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Data Storage and Indexing in PostgreSQL: Practical Guide With Examples and Performance Insights

DZone

PostgreSQL employs sophisticated techniques for data storage and indexing to ensure efficient data management and fast query performance. This guide explores PostgreSQL's mechanisms, showcases practical examples, and includes simulated performance metrics to illustrate the impact of indexing. Data Storage in PostgreSQL Table Structure and TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) Table Structure: PostgreSQL stores table data in a format known as a heap.

Storage 100
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What Comes After the LLM: Human-Centered AI, Spatial Intelligence, and the Future of Practice

O'Reilly

In a recent episode of High Signal , we spoke with Dr. Fei-Fei Li about what it really means to build human-centered AI, and where the field might be heading next. Fei-Fei doesn’t describe AI as a feature or even an industry. She calls it a “civilizational technology”—a force as foundational as electricity or computing itself. This has serious implications for how we design, deploy, and govern AI systems across institutions, economies, and everyday life.