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  • The Cloudflare Blog: How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/timescaledb-art/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting Feedly Summary: Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the reasoning behind Cloudflare’s choice to use PostgreSQL and subsequently TimescaleDB for analytics within…

  • Cloud Blog: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/smarterx-migrating-to-bigquery-from-snowflake-cut-costs-in-half/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half Feedly Summary: In 2024, retail sales for consumer packaged goods were worth $7.5 trillion globally. Their sheer variety — from cosmetics to clothing, frozen vegetables to vitamins  — is hard to fathom. And distribution…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…

  • The Register: Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/alibaba_cloud_eigen_plus_cluster_manager/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers Feedly Summary: ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage Alibaba Cloud has revealed a cluster manager it says allows it to run databases more efficiently than…

  • Cloud Blog: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-cloud-sql-boosts-performance-and-cuts-costs-per-idc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL Feedly Summary: Editor’s Note: Today, we’re sharing insights from IDC Research Director, Devin Pratt, as he offers his analysis of recent research on Cloud SQL. In this post, you’ll see how Cloud SQL’s highly…

  • The Register: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/postgresql_ondisk_database_encryption/ Source: The Register Title: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption Feedly Summary: Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially…

  • Cloud Blog: Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/simplifying-platform-engineering-at-john-lewis-part-one/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: This is part one of the story. After you’re finished reading, head over to part two.  In 2017, John Lewis, a major UK retailer with a £2.5bn annual online turnover, was hampered by…