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Generics can make your Go code slower
Go Generics are a long-awaited feature added in Go 1.18. This article covers how generics were implemented in Go and some surprising ways they can impact your code.
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B-Trees and Database Indexes
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.
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What is a database transaction?
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?
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The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE.
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The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints
Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.