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R2 SQL - R2 SQL pricing announced

R2 SQL is a serverless, distributed query engine that runs SQL against Apache Iceberg tables stored in R2 Data Catalog. R2 SQL now has published pricing based on a single dimension: the volume of compressed data scanned to execute your queries. At $2.50 / TB ($0.0025 / GB), R2 SQL is priced at half the cost of AWS Athena and less than half of Google BigQuery on-demand. Billing is not yet enabled. We will provide at least 30 days notice before we start charging for R2 SQL usage. Data scanned is m

R2 - R2 Data Catalog pricing announced

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into R2 buckets, queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB. R2 Data Catalog now has published pricing for catalog operations and table compaction, in addition to standard R2 storage and operations. Billing is not yet enabled. We will provide at least 30 days notice before we start charging for R2 Data Catalog usage. Pricing is based on two dimensions: Catalog operations: $9.00 / million

Realtime - Record specific participant audio tracks in RealtimeKit

You can now record specific participant audio tracks in RealtimeKit with track recording. Track recording creates separate WebM files for each participant instead of a single composite recording, which is useful for post-processing, transcription, and regulated or content-sensitive workflows. To record specific participants, pass user_ids when starting a track recording: curl --request POST \ --url https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<account_id>/realtime/kit/<app_id>/recordings/t

Solo founding is at an all-time high: Top performers have these traits in common

In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.

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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available in the Vercel Marketplace

is now available in the , with guided setup and automatic project configuration built into the Vercel dashboard.Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessVercel Marketplace By bringing Amazon OpenSearch Serverless into the Vercel Marketplace, teams benefit from a unified workflow: This integration is powered by the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless APIs, with Vercel participating as a key design partner alongside AWS during development. To help you get started, you can create a new AWS Account d

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments: The Spending Limit Is the Product

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments AI assistance disclosure: This article was prepared with AI assistance as an editorial helper. The ideas, facts, code and conclusions were reviewed by a human. Crypto risk disclosure: This article is a technical explanation, not investment advice. It is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any cryptoasset. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments should be judged less like a wallet feature and more like a spending control surface. AWS announced the preview on M

I Should Have Put Events in the Same Database as the Aggregate Root—Heres What Happened

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our CQRS model kept Events in a separate Kafka cluster labeled event-store while Aggregates lived in PostgreSQL. The outbox pattern wrote Events to Kafka via Debezium, then the read side consumed them to build materialized views. The promise was eventual consistency with zero data loss. The reality was a 40-millisecond write path plus a 200-millisecond read path, and every time we scaled the read path the lag exploded because the offset commit cycle couldnt