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• Debug your Postgres from the terminal with neon inspect db (Neon)
  Neon CLI now includes neon inspect db, a set of read-only, performance-tuning and observability commands. Each runs a single query against…
• Token economics compared across 42 AI models (Neon)
  Update Since we shipped this post, we added 3 more models to the benchmark: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and GLM-5.3 Flash.
• Electric joins Neon team at Databricks (Neon)
  Electric, the team behind PGlite and the Electric sync engine, is joining the Neon team within Databricks. The two teams are already workin…
• Neon Backend GA: Primitives for Agents to Build (Neon)
  Neon is now a complete suite of backend primitives built around the database and rooted on the lakebase architecture: Lakebase Postgres, Ob…
• Neon Adds API Command to Its CLI for AI Agents (Neon)
  Neon has added an api command to its CLI, giving agents raw Neon API access with local guardrails. The command maps flags to HTTP primitive…
• Neon Functions runs backend logic beside your database (Neon)
  We're building backends Neon started by building a serverless Postgres database that branches, but a database alone isn't enough for how ap…
• Neon builds boring backend for apps and agents (Neon)
  Neon is building a backend for apps and agents, with Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway now generally available. The company applies…
• Neon Object Storage: Branch-Aware S3-Compatible Store (Neon)
  Neon Object Storage is a branch-aware, S3-compatible object store built into the Neon backend. It is generally available and was free durin…
• Neon and Castform Target Cheaper Agentic Retrieval Training (Neon)
  Neon and Castform describe an approach to training retrieval models that is 100x cheaper. The post argues that post-trained open-source mod…
• My agent cloned GitHub (sort of) using the Neon backend - Neon (Neon)
  An experiment used an agent to build a working Git host on Neon's backend, storing every Git object as rows in Postgres and offloading larg…
• WAL + S3: Lakebase storage for the era of agents (Neon)
  Postgres already contains a timeline of transactions in its write-ahead log, and agent workloads increasingly ask for operations on that hi…
• Neon CLI adds link, checkout, and env pull commands (Neon)
  Neon is shipping three new CLI commands—neonctl link, neonctl checkout, and neonctl env pull—to make branch-first development the default.…
• Neon adds per-project permissions and four org roles (Neon)
  Neon now supports a new permission structure with four org-level roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer, and Collaborator) and per-project permission…
• Neon for Herdr: A Neon pane in your Herdr workspace (Neon)
  Neon for Herdr is a Herdr plugin that puts Neon projects in a pane, letting developers create branches, retrieve connection strings, or sus…
• Pure-TypeScript psql client embedded in neonctl (Neon)
  Neon built a pure-TypeScript reimplementation of the psql client embedded in neonctl, activating automatically when no native psql is found…
• Open-weight models on Neon AI Gateway (Neon)
  Open-weight models are built for performance, but how they’re served determines whether end users actually feel that speed. Neon AI Gateway…
• Building Patterns Unlocked by Scale to Zero (Neon)
  Scale to zero suspends compute after a few minutes of inactivity and restarts it automatically, making ephemeral branches and preview envir…
• Mistral OCR 4 for Document Intelligence (Mistral AI)
  Mistral OCR 4 returns bounding boxes, typed-block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text. It supports 170 la…
• GitHub Compared With Other DevOps Tools (GitHub)
  GitHub outlines how it compares with other DevOps tools, citing its developer base and platform features. The page highlights GitHub Action…
• Fly.io Logbook: November 7 to November 14, 2022 (Fly.io)
  The logbook covers deploying Elixir apps with GitHub Actions CI, using OpenTelemetry to troubleshoot performance issues, community efforts…
• Building clusters with serf, my new favorite thing (Fly.io)
  Fly.io can take a container image, transform it into a Firecracker VM, and run it in a chosen region. A headless Chromium container deploye…
• Building and Hosting a Hugo Site with Caddy on Fly.io (Fly.io)
  A walkthrough of generating a static site with Hugo, building it through a multi-stage Docker setup using the klakegg/hugo onbuild image, a…
• Flyctl adds a JSON output flag (Fly.io)
  Flyctl shipped a new version with a single new flag, --json or -j, which presents output from flyctl as JSON, including GraphQL API data, l…
• Fly.io Answers Questions on Scaling and Deploy Keys (Fly.io)
  Fly apps include configurable constraints such as per-region and global maximum instance counts to prevent runaway scaling, with requests d…
• How SQLite helps you do ACID (Fly.io)
  SQLite implements a journal to prevent data loss during transactions. The rollback journal ensures atomicity, isolation, and durability, wh…
• How We Got to LiveView: The Evolution of Phoenix (Fly.io)
  Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix, explains how the framework's flagship feature LiveView was developed, stripping away layers of abstractio…
• Fly.io flyctl command line tips and features (Fly.io)
  The flyctl command provides access to the Fly network, and on most platforms it can be used interchangeably as flyctl or fly. It also suppo…
• WebSockets and Fly: A Tutorial (Fly.io)
  Fly supports WebSocket connections. A tutorial demonstrates deploying a raw WebSocket chat app using flyctl, with no special configuration…
• Livebook 0.2 Release Adds Kino, Inputs, and Data Tables (Fly.io)
  Livebook 0.2 was released, introducing Kino, a client-side feature that animates data changes, along with inputs and a data_table feature f…
• Flyctl Evolved: App-Centric Command Changes (Fly.io)
  There’s a new flyctl (v0.0.137) available for your command line, with cleaner commands and extra helpers.
• Last Mile Redis: Global Caching for Faster Apps (Fly.io)
  Fly.io built a globally distributed Redis app with instant purge that works with any backend framework. Caching data close to end users can…
• Fly Changelog Updates flyctl and Load Balancing (Fly.io)
  This is the Fly Changelog where we list all significant changes to the Fly platform, tooling and web sites.
• Python Async Workers on Fly Machines (Fly.io)
  The post describes using Fly Machines to implement lightweight background jobs for a Python web application, addressing slow builds and res…
• How Safari Ruined My Tuesday (Fly.io)
  Fly.io runs apps close to users, by transmuting Docker containers into micro-VMs that run on our own hardware around the world.
• How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works (Fly.io)
  SQLite is unique among embedded databases in that it not only has a transactional, b-tree storage layer but it also includes a robust SQL e…
• Hooking Up Fly Metrics (Fly.io)
  Fly apps now include built-in Prometheus metrics, providing automatic metrics and allowing users to export custom metrics. The system uses…
• Fly.io Logbook: June 1, 2022 Changelog (Fly.io)
  Fly.io's weekly changelog for June 1, 2022 includes a rolling restart for fly restart, a Terraform provider, and a Node.js example for expo…
• Building a Global Message Service with NATS on Fly.io (Fly.io)
  Two example applications demonstrate building a global message service with NATS: a WebSocket-based chat relaying messages through a NATS c…
• Fly.io Logbook: Volume Expansion, Pro Plan Credits, SOC2 (Fly.io)
  Fly.io's logbook covers volume expansion via flyctl, Pro Plan usage credits, SOC2 compliance, SFTP support, and routing improvements.
• Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io With Prometheus and PromEx (Fly.io)
  Fly.io provides built-in Prometheus metrics for Elixir applications. The PromEx library exports metrics from Elixir apps to Grafana dashboa…
• Fivetran's performance engineering approach to pipeline speed (Fivetran)
  Fivetran describes how it pursued a 2x-3x speedup on high-volume database pipelines, with a target of moving 1 TB of data in two hours. The…
• Cost-effective ELT: Four factors to consider (Fivetran)
  Data has become a tremendous competitive advantage, and it’s especially valuable in an uncertain economy, helping organizations cope with o…
• How AI reshaped performance engineering economics (Fivetran)
  Fivetran's Mike Gordon describes how AI changed performance engineering by collapsing the cost of evaluating optimization ideas. Previously…
• MIT Research: Data Readiness Is Key to AI Readiness (Fivetran)
  An MIT Technology Review Insights report found that C-suite executives prioritize data readiness for AI success, with data integration bein…
• ETL vs. ELT: Why a post-load process wins every time (Fivetran)
  Historically, ETL made sense due to high computation, storage, and bandwidth costs. Cloud data warehouses have driven down storage costs an…
• Fivetran data normalization approach and compute costs (Fivetran)
  Fivetran normalizes data within its own virtual private cloud rather than in the customer's warehouse, a choice intended to avoid driving u…
• Accountability Without Control Is Breaking Security Leadership (Fastly)
  CISOs are increasingly accountable for incidents but lack control over the systems and decisions that shape risk. This mismatch is making t…
• Omdia Report Highlights Software Supply Chain Security Gaps (Docker)
  A new Omdia report, sponsored in part by Docker, examines security issues in the software supply chain and how organizations are responding…
• Docker Compose: New Features and V2 Migration (Docker)
  Docker Compose V1 support ends after June 2023 and will be removed from future Docker Desktop versions. New features include build improvem…
• Docker Joins Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance (Docker)
  Docker has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance, citing NVIDIA's leadership in bringing together organizations committed to solving the chall…