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Podcast: Increasing Users' Data Agency: From BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

Martin Kleppmann — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Martin Kleppmann, an associate professor at Cambridge and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, discusses the evolution of data systems over the last decade, mainly the shift from monolithic databases to modular building blocks. Kleppmann underlines the importance of moving from cloud-centric data storage systems to decentralised data storage similar to Bluesky’s AT protocol.

By Martin Kleppmann

Presentation: Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey

Viktor Vedmich — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:15:00 GMT

Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility, explores advanced caching strategies like lazy loading, and explains how to implement powerful data structures for real-time analytics, rate limiting, and session stores to solve the thundering herd problem.

By Viktor Vedmich

AWS Open Sources ExtendDB to Run DynamoDB on PostgreSQL

Renato Losio — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:25:00 GMT

AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving teams greater flexibility to run DynamoDB-style workloads outside of native DynamoDB while maintaining compatibility with current applications and workflows.

By Renato Losio

Cloudflare Identifies Query Planning Bottleneck in ClickHouse

Renato Losio — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:55:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared lock, drop the per-query copy of the parts list, and improve part filtering.

By Renato Losio

TypeORM Reaches 1.0 after Nearly a Decade, Signalling Renewed Maintenance

Daniel Curtis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:52:00 GMT

TypeORM 1.0 is the first major release of the open-source TypeScript and JavaScript ORM since its inception in 2016. This version modernizes platform requirements, removes deprecated APIs, and introduces numerous bug fixes and new features. TypeORM now supports ECMAScript 2023, dropping older Node.js versions and dependencies while enhancing security and migration processes.

By Daniel Curtis