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The simple joys of scaling up
Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture. | Reading time: 16 min read
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CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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DuckDB 0.8
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.8.0). This release is named “Fulvigula” after the Mottled Duck (Anas Fulvigula) native to the Gulf of Mexico. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many…
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Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison
This is a Python/Pandas vs Julia cheatsheet and comparison. You can find what is the equivalent of Pandas in Julia or vice versa. You can find links to the documentation and other useful Pandas/Julia resources. The table below show the useful links for both: Pandas Julia data analysis
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SQLite 3.42.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
Glean is the Enterprise AI platform connected to your enterprise's data. Find, create, and automate anything. Explore what Glean can do for you!
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What is a Vector Database? (2021)
Discover Vector Databases: How They Work, Examples, Use Cases, Pros & Cons, Selection and Implementation. They have combined capabilities of traditional databases and standalone vector indexes while specializing for vector embeddings.
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Fixing Hallucination with Knowledge Bases
Large Language Models (LLMs) have a data freshness problem. Even some of the most powerful models, like GPT-4, have no idea about recent events. Let's learn how to fix this.
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Investigating Linux phantom disk reads
An investigation of weird hardware utilization highlighting some interesting Linux kernel behaviors.
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Datomic is Free
Nubank is making all editions of Datomic free of licensing fees, released under Apache 2.0 and available directly from Maven Central, no signup required.
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The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Modern Transactional Stack
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Artificial intelligence, like machine learning before it, is making big money off what I call the “sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ scam.” The scam works as follows. Build a sy…
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The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
Comparison of replication options of time-series databases.
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Temporal quality degradation in AI models
A recent study from MIT, Harvard, The University of Monterrey, and other top institutions showed an experiment where 91% of their ML models degrade over time . This study is one of the first of its kind, where researchers focus on studying machine learning models' behavior after deployment and how their performance…
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FerretDB: open-source MongoDB alternative
After many months of development, FerretDB is now production-ready. We are excited to announce the general availability of FerretDB v1.0.
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
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From deep to long learning?
For the last two years , a line of work in our lab has been to increase sequence length. We thought longer sequences would enable a new era of machine learning foundation models: they could learn from longer contexts, multiple media sources, complex demonstrations, and more. All data ready and waiting to be learned…
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How does database sharding work?
Learn what database sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools.
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Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
Quicker, but also more convenient
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BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.
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How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs
Learn how to read the output in MySQL EXPLAIN plans so you can utilize them to improve query performance.