Shopify swapped Redis for MySQL and its inventory reservations scaled
Shopify moved the inventory reservation system that backs its checkout flow off Redis and onto MySQL, and the migration held up through a Black Friday peak. The engineering team wrote up the details on the Shopify Engineering blog, and the writeup is worth reading if you run anything with hot rows and high contention. The […]
Azure SQL becomes a first class knowledge source for Foundry IQ
Microsoft Foundry has started letting Azure SQL Database feed AI systems directly. Azure SQL is now a first class knowledge source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. In plain terms, teams building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can point their retrieval layer at relational tables without first copying everything into a separate vector […]
Azure SQL Regex-Based Dynamic Data Masking Now in Preview
Azure SQL Database’s Dynamic Data Masking just got a significant upgrade: regex-based pattern matching. Instead of relying on a handful of built-in masking functions (default, email, random), you can now define custom regex patterns to match and mask sensitive data – emails, phone numbers, social security numbers, credit card fragments, or any pattern you can […]