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PostgreSQL leads in developer popularity in 2026 and offers advanced features for complex workloads. MySQL remains widely adopted, stable, and strong in traditional web and enterprise environments.

In 2024, the elephant in the room was how generative artificial intelligence seized the conversation. In 2025, the dialog shifted to agents and the question of whether there’s an AI bubble happening ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

It’s easy to get caught up in technology wars—Python versus Java versus NextBigLanguage—but the hardest part of AI isn’t the tools, it’s the people. Domain knowledge, skills, and adoption matter more ...

Records is a very simple, but powerful, library for making raw SQL queries to most relational databases. Just write SQL. No bells, no whistles. This common task can be surprisingly difficult with the ...

The Database Library for Robot Framework allows you to query a database and verify the results. It requires an appropriate Python module to be installed separately ...

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