Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY suffers a global exclusive lock on NOTIFY calls, which serializes commits and caps throughput around 2.9K writes/sec. By buffering notifications in memory and flushing them in batched transactions—plus a low-frequency polling fallback—the stream writer can leverage group commits and hit 60K writes/sec with 15–100ms latency.

This roundup covers Amazon’s new Fire TV interface revamp, Getty Images’ licensing deal with OpenAI, and Higgsfield’s enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA. It also highlights deeper discussions on design taste, UX soft skills, Apple’s potential design shift, and the value of creative judgment and non-linear careers.

Instagram is expanding its TV app with longer-form videos, episodic series and live creator experiences, aiming to compete with Netflix and Prime Video in the living room. The update also brings Samsung TV support, new channels, horizontal video sections and casting from phone to TV.

The author argues that in an era flooded with reality shows and franchise films, viewers—especially Gen Z—are turning to older scripted series for clear story arcs, emotional familiarity, and communal comfort. This retreat into past TV hits like Girls, Mad Men, and Seinfeld reflects a craving for structured escapism amid today’s unpredictable media and world.

This newsletter rounds up deep dives on modern data tooling—from Fable 5’s performance on complex analytic tasks to Airbnb’s flexible multi-product data architecture and PostgreSQL Anonymizer’s new local differential privacy features. It also links to articles on lakehouse governance with Gravitino, vector storage advances, streaming runtimes, and orchestration reactions to Dagster’s price hike.

This article discusses a library of stochastic streaming algorithms designed for fast approximate analysis of big data. It highlights the library's ability to handle complex queries efficiently, reducing processing times significantly while maintaining mathematically proven error bounds. Adaptors for various platforms and languages are included to facilitate integration.

This article explores the challenges of performing exact queries on large datasets and introduces data sketches as a solution. Sketches provide approximate answers quickly and efficiently, allowing for scalable data analysis without the need for massive storage. The piece outlines how these probabilistic structures work and their advantages in handling big data.

Anthony Wood, CEO of Roku, predicts that within three years, the first 100% AI-generated hit movie will be released, sparking debates about the feasibility and audience reception of such content. While the technology to create AI-generated films exists, concerns remain about whether these films can achieve "hit" status like traditional human-created movies. The article also discusses Roku's new low-cost, ad-free streaming service, Howdy, as a response to rising streaming costs.