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AWS has quietly closed a gap that was frustrating developers building on Aurora DSQL. The cloud giant has added foreign key constraints to its distributed database, meaning applications can now enforce referential integrity natively, with full support for cascade and set null actions. For teams who were holding off on adoption, that blocker is now gone.

Shifting from cloud infrastructure to something more personal, one blogger has turned their own sleep disorder into a data project, charting the slow daily drift of a non-twenty-four-hour sleep-wake cycle. It is a rare public look at how people with circadian rhythm disorders live with and track a condition that most medical systems still struggle to accommodate well.

And if you want to take a brief detour into something purely playful, a small web project called Can You Beat the Button is making quiet rounds online. It is exactly what it sounds like, a simple reaction test, but it serves as a small reminder that not everything on the web needs to be a platform or a product. Sometimes a button is just a button.

Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.

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