Databases
Developer surveys have shown a steady shift for several years, and the reasons are specific rather than fashionable.
Stricter typing, richer JSON handling, window functions, real check constraints, and extensions that add capability without leaving the database.
Ubiquity. Every shared host supports it, every hosting panel manages it, and replication tooling is mature and widely understood.
Rarely worth it for a working application. Worth serious consideration for a new one, especially where reporting or data integrity matter.
The obligations are lighter than most owners fear, but they are not zero, and a few of them touch your hosting directly.
West African connectivity depends on a small number of submarine cables. When one is damaged, the effects are immediate and the re…
A visible number of companies have moved workloads back from public cloud. The reasoning is more nuanced than "cloud is expensive"…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
