The challenges of soft delete

kept by eddie jan 30

HN commenters debate soft delete tradeoffs, noting schema drift, compliance conflicts, and performance issues, with many preferring archival tables or CDC over flags.

Returning to Rails in 2026
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How does AI change Software Engineering?
Investing in codebase constraints like strong types and modularity compounds AI agent effectiveness, enabling small teams to outpace legacy-encumbered organizations.
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the broken economics of databases - by almog gavra
Database vendors charge high prices but earn slim profits because they must recover large fixed costs, constantly innovate to avoid commoditization, and compete against cloud providers who own the underlying infrastructure.
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AWS Destroyed the Value Proposition for Bedrock - Securosis
AWS Bedrock’s launch of Claude Fable 5 requires users to share prompts with Anthropic, ending its promise of data neutrality for regulated shops.
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Postgres for time-series workloads at any scale.
Tiger Cloud provides a fully managed PostgreSQL platform that independently scales compute and storage for time-series workloads, ensuring high availability, compliance, and deep observability.
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