ClickHouse just leveled up. Its new SQL-standardUPDATEis fast—PostgreSQL-fast on single-row changes, and up to4,000×faster on bulk updates. That’s pure columnar speed plus parallelism in the driver’s seat. Yes, both use MVCC. But unlike Postgres, ClickHouse dodges transaction bloat by default. That..

An indie dev just went full mad scientist and built a full-stack, transformer-powered search engine—solo. They indexed 280 million pages from scratch with hundreds of crawlers, a fully sharded backend, and serious metal:64 RocksDB nodes,200 CPU cores, and82 TB of SSD. Under the hood: custom HTML pa..

AWS ECR is an OCI repository supporting different types of artifacts, from Docker images to machine learning models, allowing for simplified management and unified access. Users can interact with ECR using CLI tools like ORAS, Helm, and Terraform, providing integration with CI/CD pipelines for effic..

Node.js just got spicier. You can now runTypeScript files out of the box—no transpile step, no weird configs. It’s experimental, and only supports a trimmed-down syntax, but still: big move. Elsewhere, it’s tacklingburst fs eventswith AsyncIterator support, tightening upCJS/ESM cycle resolution, an..

GitHub just lost its autonomy. Microsoft is folding it into theCoreAIdivision, where it’ll now march in step with Redmond’s broader AI play. CEO Thomas Dohmke is out. No replacement named. Bigger picture:Why now? Copilot hit general availability, and GitHub’s becoming less a platform, more a provin..

A search service (Marginalia Search) gutted its old index internals and dropped memory-mapped B-trees. In their place: adeterministic, block-aligned skip listtuned fordirect reads on NVMe SSDs. It runs on128KB block sizes, usescustom buffer pools, and leans hard onio_uringfor async position lookups..