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Buttondown cut its database from 2TB to 750GB by deleting three legacy tables

Buttondown’s 'Great Pruning' is a small-SaaS operations story about deleting architecture rather than adding it. The company removed duplicated or over-retained request and email-event data after changing how those workloads were processed.

Supabase fixes broken client trace propagation and now preserves trace IDs even for unsampled requests

supabase-js 2.112.3 materially improves the tracing rollout BTN covered earlier: unsampled requests now still carry traceparent for backend log correlation, tracing misconfiguration produces warnings, and browser Edge Function calls need current CORS headers to admit W3C trace context.

ZCode uploaded local repositories without consent — then Z.ai open-sourced the client after the backlash

The useful lesson is broader than one coding assistant: repository indexing can quietly become a data-export boundary. ZCode’s response improves inspectability going forward, but builders using AI coding tools still need to know exactly which indexing, wiki and memory features send source code or Git metadata off-device.

Reddit opens Max campaign creation to third-party Ads API clients

The change makes Reddit's more automated campaign type usable by agencies, ad-tech platforms and internal campaign systems instead of only through first-party buying surfaces. It expands automation reach, but third-party builders inherit Max's creative and optimization assumptions rather than gaining a new manual campaign type.