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DZone

Database Bottlenecks Nobody Talks About: Optimizing SQL Queries Beyond Indexing

Every performance guide starts the same way. "Add an index." And yes, indexes matter. But I've spent years fixing production databases, and here's the truth: indexing is the easy 20%. The hard 80% is everything nobody writes blog posts about. I once spent three days chasing a query that had a perfect index. The index wasn't the problem. The problem was that the database's own statistics were lying to it.

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ExternalCloud
Google Cloud Blog

Zero-code, low-cost data ingestion: New BigQuery DTS capabilities

In a fast-paced digital economy, data is your most critical engine. Yet, many enterprises find themselves trapped in a costly paradox, spending over 100 hours a week building and fixing fragile, in-house ETL pipelines or wrestling with unpredictable third-party tools. Trusted by thousands of customers every single day, BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS) eliminates this engineering burden. As a fully managed, zero-code data movement solution, BigQuery DTS automates data ingestion into BigQuery

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ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public

now lets you make a repository public, so anyone with a Vercel account can pull and use its images.Vercel Container Registry Sharing already granted read access to up to 100 teams, and making a repository public opens that access to every Vercel team rather than a named set. Public access is read-only, so anyone can pull and use the images but cannot push, delete, or otherwise change the repository. Repositories stay private by default. Make a repository public from the project dashboard under I

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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

Grab the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-ray for $50

“One ring to rule them all” | Image: Warner Bros. Looking to spend a weekend inside with a good binge? Gruv has The Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-ray marked down to $49.99, just below Amazon’s price and only a little bit higher than the all-time low we usually see around Black Friday. This version includes both the original theatrical releases of all three movies — The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King — as well as the extended editions, in case you want to s

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Changelog

Secret scanning coverage updates

This release expands secret scanning’s coverage with more secrets blocked by push protection, one new secret scanning partner, and richer metadata on alerts. Secret scanning partnership program Lovable Labs is… The post Secret scanning coverage updates appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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ExternalCybersecurity
AWS Security Blog

Securing your Amazon S3 buckets: Identifying and remediating over-permissioned access

Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets across your AWS environment, along with […]

Advanced (300)Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)Security, Identity, & Compliance
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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in turmoil? Is it about Demis Hassabis wanting something more interesting to work on than virtual assistants? Or is there something else entirely happening here? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David

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