Nowadays it’s not uncommon to deal with machines with hundreds of GB of RAM.
Abundant memory can give PostgreSQL a massive performance boost.
However things work slightly different than you may expect.
Let’s find out!

Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.

I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from C and…

Waiting lists for socially rented family homes in places like London are indefensible. We all need to work to fix this, argues Kunle Barker 

Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.

Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral on social media: people are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in a photo.

They still can’t fully crack the mystery.

Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance is now honored by UNESCO.

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that ...

In the 1930s, prejudice and anti-science ideology destroyed the world’s leading math department, at Göttingen. It couldn't happen here, could it?

Playing around "Less Slow" coding practices in C++ 20, C, CUDA, PTX, & Assembly, from numerics & SIMD to coroutines, ranges, exception handling, networking and use...

Google tried to reinvent email. Everyone said no.

I'm an Apple ecosystem user, owning an iPhone ever since a past employer got it for me to test our company app some 8 years ago. Over time, as I've upgraded, I'

Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge