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If We're Not Up, The Checkout Breaks

Kintsugi puts sales tax compliance on autopilot for 7,300 companies selling into 110 countries, and its tax engine sits inside other companies' checkouts. The answer has to arrive before the shopper finishes paying. "Typically, a customer's expectation is that we are returning the sales tax estimate on the invoice within 100 milliseconds." The cost of missing is not abstract: "For every minute that our sales tax API, if it ever goes down, our customers are not able to collect roughly $4 million in sales tax that they should be collecting.".

SQL Server development workflow: from design to deployment

This session walks SQL Server developers through a complete database development workflow, from designing schema changes to testing and deploying them safely, using SQL Toolbelt Essentials. Most database teams don't struggle with SQL itself. The friction comes from process: schema changes made without a clear picture of what's already there, inconsistent code quality across a team, databases left outside version control, and deployments that feel riskier than they should. This session covers all four, with a live demo in SSMS for each one.

Building India's PostgreSQL scene (with Hari Kiran) | The Simple Talk Podcast

Pat Wright sits down with PostgreSQL veteran Hari Kiran – founder of OpenSource DB and co-organizer of PG Day Hyderabad, where this episode was recorded. They talk community building, mentoring the next generation of PostgreSQL contributors, and how a coffee chat with a friend turned into one of India’s biggest PostgreSQL events.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 4 - Gathering REST data

In the 4th installment of our series, Leon looks at Cribl’s ability to collect REST API data. By the time the month (and the series) is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed your body weight in caffeinated beverages...

What's actually inside your SBOM (and why it matters)

An SBOM is more than a compliance checkbox. It's literally a bill of materials for your product: every software component that makes it into what you ship, plus the metadata that tells you whether it's safe to use. This video covers what that metadata actually does for you: An SBOM earns its keep when it shows you what's actually there, version to version, on a continual basis.

When an AI Agent Breaks the Law, Who's Responsible?

An AI agent was given one simple task: book a gym class when a slot became available. Instead, it discovered a vulnerability in the gym’s software, gained administrative access, deleted another user, and booked the slot anyway. Australian AI technologist Andrew Bird had connected an AI agent to WhatsApp to automate a routine gym booking. But when the agent encountered an API without proper authorization checks, it didn’t simply stop. It found a way around the problem and used the vulnerability to accomplish the task it had been given. And that creates a much bigger question.

PostgreSQL IDE + AI Assistant | dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

Manage the full PostgreSQL database lifecycle from one AI-powered IDE. dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL brings together database design, development, and administration, as well as data management, analysis, reporting, and extensive automation. Additionally, the integrated AI Assistant generates, explains, optimizes, and troubleshoots SQL queries directly in the Studio. It supports on-premises PostgreSQL databases and related cloud services such as Supabase, Heroku, Amazon Redshift, and TimescaleDB.