<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>PostgreSQL gets faster and more versatile</strong>: PostgreSQL is stepping up its game with new insert strategies in Python, offering distinct trade-offs between safety and raw performance, as highlighted by Towards Data Science. Neon’s database branching is also solving staging environment bottlenecks for fintechs like Bitso, providing isolated Postgres instances for developers. Plus, you can now replace Redis with PostgreSQL for caching and job queues, simplifying operations and cutting infrastructure costs, according to Lobsters. It’s all about making PostgreSQL a more robust and efficient choice for diverse workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kgSQ4icWN&amp;id=3eFVpAm7j&amp;id=X7d3O8Vu2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust and Go push performance boundaries</strong>: The Rust ecosystem is buzzing with activity, including improvements for Rust and LTO kernel builds, as reported by Phoronix. The Rust Infrastructure Team also made strides in Q4 2025, migrating to a new CI bot and expanding Infrastructure as Code coverage, according to the Inside Rust Blog. Meanwhile, Bun, a Go-based JavaScript runtime, is showing impressive microservice performance, outperforming Node.js/Express.js by up to 10x in requests per second, as detailed by Hacker News. This indicates a strong push for speed and efficiency in both languages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=eeFdKxuyc&amp;id=m2OVQmP6S&amp;id=MJU0O3aRy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents demand new infrastructure and security thinking</strong>: AI agents are forcing a rethink of traditional cloud and DevOps practices. InfoWorld notes that AI workloads are pushing enterprises towards hybrid cloud strategies due to extreme compute costs and data sovereignty concerns. <a href="http://Fly.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Fly.io</a> is even introducing ‘Sprites,’ durable, stateful Linux environments for AI agents, moving beyond ephemeral containers. On the security front, NVIDIA’s BlueField-4-powered ICMS platform is tackling the scaling challenges of agentic AI by optimizing memory for KV cache, as reported by NVIDIA Developer. It’s clear that AI isn’t just changing software, it’s changing the very infrastructure it runs on. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jKTjCIVKc&amp;id=HAEIV3Yfw&amp;id=pEHobA5eK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Kubernetes gets smarter with workload-aware scheduling</strong>: Kubernetes v1.35 introduces workload-aware scheduling and gang scheduling, ensuring all pods in a workload start simultaneously, preventing resource wastage and deadlocks, according to Cloud Native Now. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R6fTuHjeX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Go-based LLM gateway Bifrost promises speed</strong>: Bifrost, an open-source LLM gateway written in Go, offers 40x lower overhead and 68% lower memory usage than LiteLLM, supporting 15+ AI providers through an OpenAI-compatible API. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hMdRldhlT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust robotics framework HORUS prioritizes real-time performance</strong>: HORUS Framework, a production-grade robotics library built in Rust, focuses on real-time performance and memory safety, processing six million messages per second and offering Python integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tBD8atPlc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI coding agents are changing developer workflows</strong>: Ramp’s Inspect, an internal AI coding agent, is contributing to 30% of merged pull requests, while Atoms, a multi-agent AI platform, builds full-stack apps using serverless Postgres, as reported by The New Stack and Neon. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Mn0fWeNUD&amp;id=VkDnavm3j" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse Cloud scales music analytics and data platforms</strong>: Chartmetric and HighLevel migrated to ClickHouse Cloud, achieving 10-15x faster queries and 88% storage reduction for billions of rows of music analytics and data platform data, according to ClickHouse. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=xwftXGqpy&amp;id=eILsKZxNH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New mobile SDK brings low-code AI to devices</strong>: DataSapien launched a mobile SDK for on-device AI applications, processing data locally with small language models and supporting iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter through a low-code interface, as reported by The New Stack. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0hLxHBe4g" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL-backed tool archives link aggregator platforms</strong>: Redd-Archiver is an open-source tool that converts compressed data dumps from platforms like Reddit into browsable HTML archives with PostgreSQL-backed full-text search, supporting offline browsing and AI integration via MCP server. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0u6TE2UfA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI detox: The latest fad for engineers who can’t focus</strong>: Apparently, AI code generation tools are causing ‘dead zones’ of 5-30 seconds, leading engineers to get distracted by Slack or email. The brilliant solution? An ‘AI Detox’ protocol where you literally remove your hands from the keyboard and close distracting apps. Because, you know, it’s the AI’s fault we can’t focus, not our own inability to manage notifications. Maybe just, like, turn off Slack? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/nVFL2FYYR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Your portal is not a platform: A groundbreaking insight</strong>: DevOps Toolkit is here to remind us that an internal developer platform isn’t just a pretty UI. Who knew? A true platform, they say, has services, APIs, and multiple interfaces. It’s almost as if they’re suggesting that a web portal is just one way to interact with a system, not the entire system itself. Mind. Blown. Next, they’ll tell us that a car isn’t just its steering wheel. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/i4Cyw4NVd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Prompt engineering won’t fix your architectural dumpster fire</strong>: In a shocking revelation, it turns out that throwing AI at a poorly designed system won’t magically make it good. Prompt engineering, apparently, can’t compensate for fragmented domains, inconsistent data models, and scattered business logic. Who would’ve thought that AI, which ‘faithfully executes within broken abstractions,’ would just amplify existing architectural problems? It’s almost like good architecture still matters, even in the age of magical AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ioJPO54WS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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