Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.
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Pinecone Makes Dedicated Read Nodes Generally Available

Pinecone is announcing the general availability of its Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN), designed for workloads that need predictable performance, high throughput, and cost-efficient scaling under sustained ...

Aerospike Database 8 Named NoSQL Solution of the Year in the 2026 Data Breakthrough Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerospike Inc. today announced that Database 8 has been named "NoSQL Solution of the Year" in the seventh annual Data Breakthrough Awards ...
TMCnet

Hardening Trading Infrastructure: Using Immutable Ledgers to Secure Financial Data on Linux Platforms

Most exchange backends still run on Linux - matching engines, market-data services, FIX gateways, and high-throughput trading ...
IEEE

Performance Analysis of Distributed Database System in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract: This research discusses the performance evaluation of distributed database systems in a cloud computing environment Cloud computing environments allow data and applications to be stored and ...