Tech&Talk·Aug 29PostgreSQL 14 Dies on 12 November 2026. I Costed the Upgrade and Started Nine Months Early.Twenty-eight CVEs were closed in the August release. After 12 November 2026, the next batch stops being the project’s problem and starts…
Tech&Talk·Aug 27I Stopped Raising max_connections. Pool Exhaustion Is Almost Never a Pool Size Problem.The pool is a queue, and a full queue means the thing behind it got slower. Raising the limit moves the wait from your application into…A response icon1A response icon1
Tech&Talk·Aug 25Two Consumers, One Message, Zero Idempotency. I Learned What an Idempotency Key Does Not Protect.A unique key on a dedupe table only helps if the check and the write are in the same transaction. Under two concurrent consumers, the naive…A response icon2A response icon2
Tech&Talk·Aug 23I Read the spawn_blocking Docs Line by Line. One Sentence Explains Every Hung Shutdown I’ve Seen.Tokio’s own documentation says abort() has no effect on a blocking task, and that shutdown will wait indefinitely. Nearly every…
Tech&Talk·Aug 22I Read All 28 Postgres CVEs From the August Release. Three Bugs Need Work After You Patch.Updating the binaries is the easy part. One GIN bug leaves reltuples set to Infinity, stops autovacuum touching the table, and the docs say…
Tech&Talk·Aug 20I Traced Why One Slow Test Costs You 55 Seconds. It’s the Execution Model, Not the Test.cargo test runs binaries serially and can only talk to them through an exit code. Nextest's own docs use a 60-second example to show what…A response icon1A response icon1
Tech&Talk·Aug 18I Audited Every Cargo Cleanup Command. Only Three Are Worth Running.Cargo has been auto-deleting your registry cache since 1.88. It still won’t touch target/, which is where your disk actually went.
Tech&Talk·Aug 16I Went Through Every Rust 1.97 Change. One Had Been Miscompiling Silently Since 1.87.A point release landed seven days after 1.97.0. That LLVM bug was already sitting in your binaries, and the release notes admit as much in…A response icon1A response icon1
Tech&Talk·May 22Rust’s Trait Coherence Algorithm ExplainedThe Rust compiler plays a game of “prove this cannot exist.” Here’s how it does it without losing its mind.
InBeyond LocalhostbyTech&Talk·May 12When Your Edge Function Hits a Wall: The 128MB Reality CheckA developer’s guide to understanding, working with, and conquering memory constraints in Vercel and Cloudflare Workers
