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pgBackRest is no longer maintained: a calm migration plan for production Postgres operators

Close-up of an open mechanical hard drive showing the spinning platter and read/write actuator arm — physical-storage context for backup discussion (photo: Amalia Digital / Pexels)

The pgBackRest GitHub repository was archived this week — the maintainer announced that the project is no longer being actively developed. For anyone running production PostgreSQL backups via pgBackRest (and that’s a lot of people; it’s been the de facto …

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GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing: what changes on your team’s invoice

Hands using a calculator next to a printed invoice — usage-based billing context (photo: Kindel Media / Pexels)

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing — announced this week on the GitHub blog. The flat $10 / $19 / $39 per-seat pricing isn’t going away entirely, but each tier now comes with a “premium request” budget, and once …