Assorted links for Friday, Febuary 28:

1. 5 Frameworks That Embrace Declarative State Management
2. The Staging Bottleneck: Microservices Testing in FinTech

   A sandbox is a lightweight, isolated, production-like testing setup created dynamically from a shared baseline environment. Designed to replicate production conditions at a fraction of the cost and complexity, sandboxes effectively transform a single staging environment into multiple independent environments. By multiplexing the baseline staging setup, sandboxes provide tailored environments for individual engineers or QA teams without adding compliance risks or increasing maintenance burdens, as they inherit the same compliance and configuration frameworks as production.

3. Why AI Agents Need an Operational Database
4. Database Scalability and the Giant Flea: A Lesson in Complexity
5. How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub