Database Selection Brief for Backend Engineers2026. 05. 19. 02:09:11DB Engineering Weekly: May 11–18, 2026PostgreSQL patches 11 CVEs including four at CVSS 8.8; MongoDB 8.2.9/8.3.2 fix a time-series RCE (CVE-2026-8053); SpacetimeDB publishes a high-contention benchmark showing 300k TPS vs Postgres's 961; Meta's petabyte-scale MySQL migration case study delivers a transferable shadow-testing architecture.
Database Selection Brief for Backend Engineers2026. 05. 18. 00:06:05DB Engineering Weekly: May 10–17, 2026Backend-engineer brief for May 10–17: four CVSS 8.8 CVEs across PostgreSQL and MongoDB demand immediate patching; Qdrant v1.18 ships TurboQuant (8× compression); Neon's FPW disable yields 4.5× write throughput; Shopify's Redis→MySQL post-mortem traces the real culprit to connection leakage.