Weekly Digest #206

Articles

Shrinking a Postgres Table

Mapping reliability to accountability

Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

Tutorials

SQL best practices — don’t compare count(*) with 0

Tools

node-google-backup A Command-Line Utility to automatically backup Google Mail, Calendar & Contacts to local files.

hyperdx. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by Clickhouse and OpenTelemetry.

Off-topic

Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024

Study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style