Customer-held encryption keys on Azure Postgres Flexible Server
Cross-tenant customer-managed keys let a customer hold the key to their data in a provider's Azure Postgres app. What saying yes costs, and how we'd build it.
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Thought Leadership
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Responsive joins Databricks: what Lakebase gains
Responsive, the SlateDB team, is joining Databricks to work on Lakebase. The two Lakebase limits that shape what we build, and which the news could move.
How we scaled programmatic SEO with AI agents
Our 81 city pages held through Google's September 2026 spam update while our agent notes fell out. What kept them indexed, and the checks AI drafts pass.
Lakebase vs Snowflake Postgres: branching is the difference
Lakebase branches a copy of production on request; Snowflake Postgres runs on a dedicated VM with attached disks. Branching, scale to zero and governance.
Starting our SOC 2 journey: what we found before the audit
Customers asking for a SOC 2 report? Preparing for SOC 2 Type II, we found the controls were already running and proving them was the work.
AI as a horizontal layer across the enterprise
Horizontal AI versus vertical AI. Why businesses need a shared AI layer across their systems, what goes in it, and when a single-app copilot still wins.
Introducing Azure AI Foundry: A CTO's Guide to Starting and Scaling AI
Azure AI Foundry is now Microsoft Foundry. What it is, how it relates to Azure, and the day-one decisions a CTO makes on projects, data location and cost.
How Temporal Has Transformed My Development Approach
Retries, idempotency and state across services used to take more time than the business logic. A senior developer on what changed after adopting Temporal.
What durable execution is, and how Temporal's framework delivers it
Durable execution for teams whose order, payment or onboarding flows break halfway. How Temporal records every step and survives crashes, and where it stops.