Keeping a Postgres queue healthy — PlanetScale Simeon Griggs explains the challenges and dynamics of queue workloads in Postgres. A job queue in Postgres is desirable because of transactionality, and because it spares you from maintaining a separate system. At a certain scale, though, it outpaces the database’s ability to clean up after itself. I haven’t evaluated PlanetScale’s solution to the problem. Highlights from Git 2.54 git is my most used command. I’m glad to see the CLI still improving. git history looks genuinely useful for splitting or rewording commits. The new hook configuration also offers a much cleaner way to declare hooks – clearly needed, judging by the many popular hook-management systems out there. Do I belong in tech anymore? Ky Decker writes a personal account of disillusionment with the tech sector. In the “The psychic toll of AI” section, Ky describes a thoughtless use of AI in his workplace, where critical thinking has gone out the window and AI is shoved…
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