Source: Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children
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Archaeological, literary, and documentary evidence points to Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificing young children as offerings to the gods. Such practice could also reveal why the civilization was founded.
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Source: The growing pains of database architecture
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Figma’s infrastructure struggled to meet the demands of new features and increasing traffic. To avoid saturation, the team upgraded the database instance, created read replicas, and added PgBouncer as a connection pooler. Despite these fixes, writes contributed to a significant portion of database utilization, calling for a longer-term solution. However, horizontally scaling a Postgres-compatible database would require significant changes and posed risks with managed solutions.
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