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Spyderco’s Chaparral Birdseye Maple Keeps Premium EDC Pocket-Sized

The Spyderco Chaparral Birdseye Maple puts its most distinctive feature in the handle. Genuine wood scales give this compact folding knife a more traditional look, while its thin CTS-XHP blade keeps the design focused on everyday cutting rather than bulk.…

Spyderco’s Chaparral Birdseye Maple Keeps Premium EDC Pocket-Sized

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Lagos turns to digital mapping to take control of its growing city

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India slams Elon Musk after Starlink claim

India defends its regulatory framework against Elon Musk’s claims of oligarchs blocking Starlink’s entry, emphasising fairness and ongoing security assessments for satellite communication services.

Zero-Downtime Schema Changes in PostgreSQL: Adding Columns and Indexes to a 200M-Row Table

You have a PostgreSQL table with 200 million rows . It's serving live traffic. Now you need to add a column or an index. Run the wrong command and every INSERT , UPDATE , and DELETE hangs until it…

  • Add nullable column with no default value to change catalog metadata
  • Backfill old rows in batches for NOT NULL columns
  • Use CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to avoid table-level locks

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