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Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017
We take a look at the performance of our 86,529 hard drives and break down the failure rates by manufacturer and model size.
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Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
Late last year I told you about our plans to add PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora. We launched the private beta shortly after that announcement, and followed it up earlier this year with an open preview. We’ve received lots of great feedback during the beta and the preview and have done our best to make […]
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Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them
When I started playing with word2vec four years ago I needed (and luckily had) tons of supercomputer time. But because of advances in our understanding of w...
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CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy
CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.
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Ways to paginate in Postgres (2016)
Pagination, pervasive as it is in web applications, is easy to implement inefficiently. This post examines different methods of server-side pagination and their tradeoffs in PostgreSQL. Methods explored include limit-offset, cursors, keyset pagination, as well as more exotic techniques.
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Hazelcast 3.8.3
2017-10-07: IMap is not the only datatype supporting merge: ICache is mergable as well.
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I/O Access Methods for Linux
Explore the four different ways to perform disk I/O on Linux and the tradeoffs and what we chose for ScyllaDB to build a high-performing database.
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PostgreSQL 10 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine
Yahoo, the trusted guide for millions globally with iconic products for 30+ years—offers advertisers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to deliver results.
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Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
After being left for dead, SQL is making a comeback and the NoSQL vs. SQL debate is stronger than ever. Why? And how will it impact the data community?
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Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas
Learn to perform the basics of geospatial analysis using Python along with the GeoJSON and GeoPandas libraries.
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Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
The third annual Prime Day set another round of records for global orders, topping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making it the biggest day in Amazon retail history. Over the course of the 30 hour event, tens of millions of Prime members purchased things like Echo Dots, Fire tablets, programmable pressure cookers…
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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 4 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the fourth beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download. This …
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InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
We were inspired after Paul Dix, Co-Founder and CTO of InfluxData spoke at PromCon and received interest in more integration between Prometheus and InfluxDB. We are excited to introduce InfluxDB Prometheus Interoperability - InfluxDB 1.4, which now sup...
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How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations.
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Sorting number strings numerically
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Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
This post covers how Apache Kafka and its Streams API are used for storing and processing all the articles ever published by The New York Times