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Elastic rebuilds its metrics engine to undercut Datadog, right as ANZ AI budgets blow out
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (1074+ words) Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Global AI and Technology Editor | Published 2 July 2026 A rebuilt columnar engine, native Prometheus support and agentic investigations that start before anyone gets paged. Elastic reckons it can query metrics 30x faster than Prometheus at 3. 75 bytes per data point, and…...
Engineering: Performance Architecture in Laravel with Redis
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (1319+ words) For many, development ends at the "it works" stage. Their success is measured by the number of closed Jira tickets and successfully deployed features. But for an engineer, this moment is only the beginning. The real work begins where code…...
Elastic Delivers Best-in-Class Metrics With Native Prometheus Support and Agentic Investigation Experiences
21+ hour, 8+ min ago (214+ words) Elastic Observability addresses both problems in a single platform that stores Open Telemetry, Prometheus-native, and application-defined metrics at full resolution alongside logs and traces, with no separate backends and no retention trade-offs. The release spans the metrics engine and the…...
Search Every SEC Filing by Keyword With the Keyless EDGAR Full Text API
15+ hour, 33+ min ago (252+ words) If you have ever wanted to find every SEC filing that mentions a phrase, a person, or a legal term, EDGAR has a full text search index that covers every filing since 2001. It is a plain JSON API, no key…...
ELK (Elasticsearch + Kibana)
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (33+ words) dataplayer. ai ELK (Elasticsearch + Kibana) Category: Cloud Status: base Connects to an Elasticsearch/Kibana stack. Manages Elasticsearch configuration files (e. g. Filebeat configs) and supports log pipeline registration....
How Small Postgres Metadata Tables Quietly Throttle Your Largest Queries | Hacker Noon
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (882+ words) A 10, 000-row device metadata table, rarely updated, sitting in the'FROM'clause of every dashboard query you run, can drag your entire time-series query path into the wrong performance tier. The time-series scan looks fast in'EXPLAIN. The join node is where the…...
Redis 8 in Practice: Building a Full-Stack Movie Library with Search, JSON, Time Series, and Real API Workloads
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1330+ words) I have used Redis in production for years. In a previous role, our stack used Redis 6 on Azure Cache for Redis with a Spring Boot backend and Jedis. It worked, but advanced capabilities often came with extra decisions around cost,…...
SQLite vs Redis for Telegram Bots: When to Use What
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (275+ words) SQLite vs Redis for Telegram Bots Choosing the wrong database can tank your bot's performance. SQLite: The Default Choice import sqlite3 conn = sqlite3. connect('bot. db') def get_user(chat_id: int) -> dict | None: row = conn. execute( 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE chat_id=?', (chat_id,) ). fetchone() return dict(row) if…...
Open Search Serverless Next Gen, uv audit, and Why Schema Constraints Break Small Models
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (768+ words) This week's tooling moves cluster around a common theme: eliminating the overhead tax on developer workflows. AWS cut idle costs for search, uv folded security scanning into dependency resolution, and a research finding quietly invalidated how most teams measure small…...
The Token Bucket Algorithm: Build Server-Side API Rate Limiting in ~40 Lines
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (405+ words) Plenty of tutorials teach you how to survive someone else's rate limit with retries and backoff. Far fewer show you how to build one. If you run an API, you need rate limiting on your side too " to protect your…...