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Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
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I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Dolt is Git for data
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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The 4-chan Go programmer
A very silly concurrency exercise in using Go channels that send channels that send channels that send channels.
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People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees
A novel data structure has been invented four times now, with three different names. We think that's a good sign.
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Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
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Anatomy of a SQL Engine
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Three ways to think about Go channels
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Electron vs. Tauri
Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.
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Prolly Trees
A deep dive into the Probabilistic B-tree or Prolly Tree data structure including examples. Prolly Trees are used to create version controlled databases.
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Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine
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