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Quicker serverless Postgres connections

Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not…

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]

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Racket 8.1

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.1 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. DrRacket tabs can be dragged, and have new close buttons. Racket CS supports cross-compilation using `raco exe`. Racket CS supports Android on 32-...