Last night, I caused something on X by saying that (most) transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded:

hot take: databases should be single-threaded

someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded.…

CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:

If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?