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BackendJuly 20269 min read

Turso and libSQL: Edge SQLite with Embedded Replicas

How Turso and libSQL push SQLite past a single process — embedded replicas for local-speed reads, remote writes that sync, and database-per-tenant at edge scale.

BackendJuly 20269 min read

DuckDB: In-Process OLAP Analytics on Parquet, CSV, and S3

Why I reach for DuckDB — an in-process OLAP engine that runs SQL directly on Parquet, CSV, JSON, and S3 files with zero ETL, and how it compares to Postgres.

DevOpsJuly 20269 min read

Prometheus 3.0: OTLP, Native Histograms, UTF-8 & New UI

Prometheus 3.0 is the first major release in seven years — a redesigned UI, native OTLP ingestion, Remote Write 2.0, UTF-8 names, and the 2.x upgrade traps to plan for.

AIJuly 20269 min read

Run Local LLMs with Ollama: Models, API, and Modelfile

How I run open-weight LLMs like Llama, Gemma, and Qwen on my own machine with Ollama — one command to pull a model, an OpenAI-compatible API, and total privacy.