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The Empire Strikes Back: Mastering Database Backups & Disaster Recovery

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the night our staging database went dark. A rogue migration script had wiped a critical table, and the only “backup” we had was a nightly pg_dump that we’d never actually tried to restore. When the alarm blared at 2 a.m., I felt like I was standing in front of a closed gate with no key—frantic, helpless, and wondering if we’d ever see our data again. That moment was the dragon I needed to slay: unreliable backups and a disaster‑recovery plan that l

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Enterprise AI Agents Have a Control Plane Now | Focused Labs

Cheap to create, expensive to manage. Added into Microsoft 365, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Slack, data warehouses, support queues, and custom applications, enterprise AI agents have become an operating estate that the market wants to operate. So the market is now increasingly focused on the operating aspects of agents rather than the small trick of getting an agent to respond in a chat. I just read about Microsoft Agent 365, which is framed around observing, governing, and securing agents through

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Android 17’s new foldable gaming mode could make flippy phones more fun

Android 17 is getting a dedicated gaming mode for foldables that will put a virtual gamepad with touch controls on half of your screen to theoretically make it easier to play games. With foldable gaming mode, which is set to launch in the coming months, the virtual controller emulates physical button presses at a system level and is designed to work "with any game that supports physical controllers," says Google's Mishaal Rahman on Reddit. For the actual inputs, the virtual controller will have

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How to Design an Event-Driven Analytics Pipeline — A System Design Deep Dive

Interview prep series: real problems, real trade-offs, no hand-waving. Here's a scenario straight from a fintech startup I worked at. We had field agents responsible for onboarding customers, managing investments, and handling deposits and withdrawals. Management wanted to shift from a fixed salary model to fixed + commission — where commission depended on each agent's monthly performance. The immediate instinct was: just write a SQL query. And that's exactly what we did, initially. But it quick

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Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study

Privacy controls — systems that enforce retention, access, allowed-purpose, downstream-sharing, or anonymization policies — require a reliable understanding of data to function. Before such a control can operate effectively, it must know exactly what it is looking at. This can be complex, as demonstrated by a field simply named “age“: In one context, it might [...] Read More... The post Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study appeared first on Engine

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Photo ZIP campaign targeting hospitality industry delivers Node.js implant for persistent access

Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified an active multi-stage intrusion campaign targeting hospitality organizations in Europe and Asia. The campaign uses photo-themed ZIP archives and fake image shortcut files to deliver a persistent Node.js implant and evade detection. The post Photo ZIP campaign targeting hospitality industry delivers Node.js implant for persistent access appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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