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Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively
Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support native geospatial types, connecting Wherobots, PostGIS, Sedona, Databricks, and Snowflake to one table format.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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The Anthropic Economic Index
Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations
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Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)
Uncover deeper insights beyond ZIP codes with geospatial analysis. Explore the limitations of ZIP codes and discover alternatives for spatial understanding.
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Announcing the data.gov archive
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
LLMs excel at text generation but fail at precise document extraction due to nondeterminism. | Pulse AI
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Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth
Explore Julia and JuliaHub's remarkable growth: 494% rise in Discourse views, +412% GitHub stars, and new products like Dyad.
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A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
Right before Christmas we discovered that our Aurora Postgres instance needed a major version upgrade. This covers how we made the upgrade with zero seconds of downtime.
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Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications
Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptually and show how this is practically implemented in the open source project Restate.
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Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location
Case Study ⸺ Using novel technology to analyze groundbreaking chain of command research
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Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs to enhance analytics engineering solutions. Learn how this partnership strengthens the modern data stack.
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The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/
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Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres
Explore the challenges of building a change data capture (CDC) pipeline for Postgres. And see how Sequin used a watermark design inspired by Netflix's DBLog.
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Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
A blog by and for database architects.
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ISO 8583: The language of credit cards
Discover the inner workings of ISO 8583, the global standard for credit card transaction messaging. Learn how it powers payment processing across networks and explore its structure, fields, and real-world applications.
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Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
The Electric sync engine is now in BETA. If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.
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Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS
Technical deep dive into the new DBOS integration for Supabase
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Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
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OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks
OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. Designed as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage, OrioleDB aims to overcome scalability bottlenecks and fully utilize modern hardware capabilities. By integrating seamlessly with PostgreSQL, it…
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What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
Discover Sparse Llama: A 50% pruned, GPU-optimized Llama 3.1 model with 2:4 sparsity, enabling faster, cost-effective inference without sacrificing accuracy.
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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32k context length text embedding models
TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of retrieval quality, latency, and cost. voyage-3 outperforms OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% on aver…
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SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)
Tap, Click, Launch
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
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Building Databases over a Weekend
In this post we take you on a walkthrough on how you can use DataFusion to build your own developer experience for databases.