Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 46 posts.
Having a good database schema design is crucial for building applications that will need to scale in traffic and complexity. If you happen to do a bad design choice you will see that it takes a lot of effort to stop the pattern from propagating to your backends’ services and controllers, and finally to your frontend.
A talk at Hydra distributed computing conference , online (originally planned to be in Moscow, Russia), 06 Jul 2020
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity.
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican: Here’s the SQL query that found me my …
Redis is a fast single-threaded data structure server, commonly used as a cache, scratchpad, queue, or coordination mechanism between distributed applications. It offers operations over a broad array of datatypes , including binary blobs, lists, sets, sorted sets, maps, geohashes, counters, channels, streams, and…
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
Thanks to Nikhil Benesch, Justin Jaffray and several decades of "wouldn't it be nice if..." for contributions.
Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.
A long-form article entitled: "Domain Logic and SQL"
Why it’s important to improve Postgres connection scalability, plus an analysis on the limits of connection scalability today.
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
By Ben Sykes
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
