We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for.

When using two separate Prisma clients with different database adapters (PostgreSQL via @prisma/adapter-pg and MySQL via @prisma/adapter-mariadb) in the same Node.js ...

Have you ever faced the frustration of trying to combine multiple Excel files, only to realize their sheet names don’t match? It’s a common headache for anyone working with data from varied sources.

One of the most anticipated new features in PostgreSQL 17 is native support for incremental backups. Previously, you had to use third-party programs for this; now, it's baked into the server. This ...

Sometimes, by strange coincidence, two movies open the same week that don’t just have a thing or two in common; they’re so locked into the same themes and concepts that it’s as if they’re having a ...

Writer-director Aaron Schimberg unwraps the bandages on a fragile, anxious New Yorker’s experimental facial transformation in the strange, funny, superbly acted “A Different Man,” starring Sebastian ...

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson star in a marvelously inventive dark comedy about a man who can’t change his insides. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Horror movies have taught us to shudder before a bathroom mirror, lest an assailant suddenly appear, looming behind an unsuspecting protagonist, as the medicine-cabinet door swings shut. But not all ...