Andy Pavlo has joined ClickHouse to establish and lead ClickHouse Labs, a new research team focused on database management system (DBMS) internals. Pavlo previously worked as a professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University since 2013.

A survival guide for Postgres provides strategies to prevent system failures based on two years of practical experience. The guide aims to offer concise, actionable insights for engineers facing Postgres challenges.

Ardent enables coding agents to test database code on a 1:1 copy of production PostgreSQL without impacting the live environment. Clones are isolated, load in six seconds, scale automatically, and do not duplicate storage, ensuring zero management is required.

A viral tweet claimed that a Cursor/Claude agent deleted a company's production database, prompting the user to seek an explanation from the agent. The situation raised questions about the safety of having an API endpoint that allows for the deletion of an entire production database.

A Terraform command executed by an AI agent accidentally deleted the production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course platform, leading to a 10% increase in AWS costs during the restoration process. Plans include migrating the AI Shipping Labs website from static GitHub Pages to AWS and transitioning from a Next.js setup to a Django version.