Moving data out of Snowflake into PostgreSQL looks easy until the types come out wrong!
That's the kind of silent change I wanted Hydra ETL's new Snowflake source to rule out. Tested on a real Snowflake account, 50,000 orders into PostgreSQL:
→ 38-digit IDs and decimal amounts stay exact
→ DATE stays a date, TIMESTAMP_TZ keeps its time zone
→ VARIANT lands as JSONB
→ Sno...
Two students ship the same agent. Same repo, same prompt, same free tier. One gets a reply in 900 ms; the other waits eleven seconds behind a queue they cannot see.
Who wrote the better agent?
Here's the conclusion I'd stake the lab on: when the tier is shared, you grade the distribution, not the demo. And you calibrate the rubric before you grade a single stude...
On 3 February 2026 I gave a talk at the Epitech Summit in Mulhouse about using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI. The idea is easy to accept. The question that always comes after it is harder: what do I actually run?
In this article I'll answer that question. The install, the commands in order, and...
I wanted a reproducible container: a Kali base, a focused set of web-pentest tools, and a Python service on top. Simple, in theory. In practice I hit three walls that turn a 20-minute Dockerfile into an afternoon. All three are on Apple Silicon (arm64), and all three are avoidable once you know them.
This is the writeup I wanted while fighting it. Examples use a Kali base image and an o...
Research into how 1,000 companies handle CSV import revealed a recurring problem. Customers are still asked to prepare, correct, and split data outside the product before they can use it.
The research was conducted at Updog, a CSV and Excel importer for web apps. AI tools assisted with drafting and editing this article.
Over six months, we collected around 50 public signals abou...
Short answer: Use a queue with delayed retries and a dead-letter queue for a logistics renewal reminder. Let cron make the job eligible, let a worker attempt delivery, and capture terminal failures where operators can find them.
The clean boundary is scheduler to queue to emai...