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The Multi-Tenant Database Dilemma: Why PostgreSQL’s Two Best Features Are Trying to Kill Your Healthcare SaaS

database-design

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The Multi-Tenant Database Dilemma: Why PostgreSQL’s Two Best Features Are Trying to Kill Your Healthcare SaaS

Row-level security promises scalability but hides performance traps. Schema-per-tenant offers bulletproof isolation but becomes an operational hydra at 100+ tenants. In healthcare SaaS, choosing wrong means data breaches or bankruptcy.

#database-design#healthcare#multi-tenant...

API design

The Cold Storage Lie: Why Your API Might Be Fine Querying S3 Directly

Fintech systems are hemorrhaging money on cold data storage. The conventional wisdom says you need Redshift or Athena, but the math, and the architecture, tells a more complicated story.

#API design#cold storage#Fintech...

artificial intelligence

The Cognitive Atrophy Epidemic: How AI Is Quietly Eroding Workplace Intelligence

AI tools are making workers faster but cognitively weaker. New research reveals a 17% drop in skill retention, while practitioners report reduced critical thinking. Here’s what’s happening and how to fight back.

#artificial intelligence#cognitive offloading#critical thinking...

ddr5

DDR5 RDIMM Prices Just Dethroned the RTX 3090: When RAM Costs More Than GPU Memory

DDR5 RDIMM prices have skyrocketed past the per-GB cost of RTX 3090 GPUs, forcing a brutal recalculation of AI infrastructure economics. Here’s what the numbers actually say, and why your next AI cluster might be filled with graphics cards instead of memory sticks.

#ddr5

AI infrastructure

Data Governance is Dead, Long Live AI Readiness

Why traditional data governance frameworks are collapsing under AI’s weight, and what actually needs to replace them

#AI infrastructure#AI readiness#data governance...

benchmarking

Food Truck AI Benchmark: When 8 Out of 12 LLMs Go Bankrupt Taking Loans

A new business simulation benchmark reveals catastrophic financial illiteracy in language models, with a 100% bankruptcy rate among AI agents that take loans and only 4 models surviving a 30-day food truck challenge.

#benchmarking#business-simulation#financial-risk

AI pricing

The AI Pricing Reckoning: Why Your ‘Cost-Saving’ Copilot Will Soon Cost More Than Your Engineers

The invisible market forces pushing AI pricing toward human labor cost parity, and why enterprises betting on cheap AI are walking into a trap.

#AI pricing#cost optimization#Enterprise AI...

ai evaluation

The Car Wash Test: 53 AI Models Tried to Get a Car Clean. 42 Forgot the Car.

A viral logic test reveals that most LLMs fail at basic real-world reasoning, optimizing for walking distance while the car stays dirty in the garage.

#ai evaluation#artificial intelligence#car wash test...

alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B: The 17B-Active Model That Proves We’ve Been Wasting 95% of Our AI Compute

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ranks #3 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, challenging Llama’s open-source dominance with a sparse MoE architecture that activates only 17B of its 397B parameters, no chain-of-thought required.

#alibaba#llama#mixture-of-experts...

Data Engineering

Your ‘Terabyte-Scale’ Data Pipeline Probably Processes 15 GB a Day

Data engineers on Reddit reveal the massive gap between resume inflation and reality, most incremental loads are 1-15 GB, not terabytes. Here’s what real-world volumes look like across industries and why domain matters more than raw size.

#Data Engineering#data pipelines#etl...

apache-hop

N8N’s RAM Addiction: Why Your ‘Free’ ETL Tool is Eating Your Server Alive

A French CTO’s search for lightweight data transformation tools reveals the brutal truth about open-source ETL: your ‘scalable’ solution might be the problem. Real benchmarks, real alternatives, real talk.

#apache-hop#etl#n8n

AI Agents

Anthropic’s Transparency Retreat: Why Hiding Claude’s Thoughts Threatens the AI Agent Revolution

When Anthropic obscured Claude Code’s internal actions, they sparked a developer revolt that exposes a fundamental fault line in AI agent design: the war between usability and observability.

#AI Agents#anthropic#Claude...