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Testing Risky Postgres Migrations Safely with Volume Cloning on Unikraft Cloud

Database migrations can pass every check in development and still take production down, and the classic example is adding a NOT NULL column with no default to a table that already has rows.

  • Multi-tenant API backed by PostgreSQL on Unikraft Cloud created
  • Live database's persistent volume cloned for migration testing
  • Fix tested in disposable environment before promoting migration

The compliance paradox: More checks, more fraud

The teller does not sound accusatory. The tone is worse than that. It is procedural. A man in his thirties slides his phone across the counter and points to the screen, a transfer that never arrived…

Google Fined $463 Million for Breaching EU Rule on Location Data

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday.

  • Google fined $463 million by EU for violating privacy rules on location data.
  • Ireland’s Data Protection Commission led investigation into Google’s handling of location data.

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