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Pinterest Cuts Search Costs 30% With New Compression Tech

Pinterest reduced serving costs 20–30% by deploying Scalar and Product Quantization across its Manas search platform, compressing indices while maintaining recall above 90% across billions of embeddings.

13h ago

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Cloud

Agoda Cuts Read Latency Eightfold After Ditching SQL for DragonflyDB

Agoda migrated its hotel Price Cache from 72-shard SQL Server to DragonflyDB, achieving eightfold faster P99 read latency and simplified scaling for 1.5 million writes per second.

20h ago

Cybersecurity

Rubrik Launches Iceberg Data Protection for AWS Lakehouse Recovery

Rubrik launched Apache Iceberg Protection for AWS, enabling full recovery of queryable lakehouse tables after cyberattacks or corruption. The solution backs up data and metadata, addressing native tool gaps.

3d ago

Cloud

Coralogix to Open Australia Data Center Within 18 Months After New Investment

Coralogix plans to open an Australian data center within 18 months following Macquarie Capital's expanded Series F investment, targeting financial services and energy enterprises with data residency needs.

3d ago

Big Data

Nearly All US Database Administrators Still Run Outdated Software, Survey Finds

Percona's 2026 survey reveals 97% of US database administrators run outdated DBMS programs, citing cloud costs, migration complexity, and vendor lock-in as primary obstacles to upgrades.

4d ago

Cloud

Netflix Cuts Flink Compute Costs 58%, Saves $1.1 Million With New Autoscaler

Netflix adopts Apache Flink Autoscaler for 30,000 streaming jobs, with one team reducing annualized compute costs by 58%, saving $1.1 million through operator-level scaling decisions.

Sep 8, 2026

Big Data

Memory price increases slow to 13-18% as PC buyers resist further hikes

DRAM contract price growth is slowing to 13-18 percent in Q3 from Q2's 59.5 percent surge, as PC and smartphone buyers resist further increases amid tight supplies.

Sep 8, 2026

Big Data

Polars 2.0 Promises 5x Speed Gain, but Row Order May Change

Polars 2.0's first release candidate defaults all LazyFrame queries to streaming engine, promising 5x faster performance but potentially changing row order in ways that may silently break pipelines.

Sep 7, 2026

AI & ML

AI Agents Building Millions of Apps Face New Database Cost Crisis, Report Finds

AI agents building millions of applications create database cost crisis as most sit idle. Traditional per-tenant instances can't scale economically when agents create infrastructure faster than humans.

Sep 6, 2026

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