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Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,338 posts.
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…
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Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
Members of the public can search a newly released database of 1,600 stars to find signs of undiscovered exoplanets. The dataset, taken over two decades by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, comes with an open-source software package and an online tutorial.
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Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.
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Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem
Building systems that manage globally distributed data, provide data consistency and are also highly available is really hard. The beauty of the cloud is that someone else can build that for you.
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Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (2013)
Hi. I’m a former developer who’s moved into database administration, and here’s what I wish somebody would have told me when I got started. 7. SQL functions rarely perform well. Good developers like to reuse code by putting it into functions, and then calling those functions from multiple places. That’s a great…
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Postmortem of database outage of January 31
Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.
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RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
News and updates about CoCalc
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PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.2, 9.5.6, …
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The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
This is the extended form of a comment that got some interest on Hackernews. After a grace period of one year, Parse is now offline. This…
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Search at Slack
On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for the information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical work week, that means an entire day is dedicated to this task! To help our users find more time in their day, the Search, Learning, and Intelligence team set…
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MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3
In the past year and a half, MongoDB has put a good deal of work into improved read safety, enabled by the adoption of their new replication protocol and the WiredTiger storage engine. Dirty reads were addressed in 3.2 by introducing a majority read concern , and stale reads were addressed with the introduction of the…
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RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
When the company behind RethinkDB shut down last year, a group of former employees and members of the community formed an interim leadership team and began devising a plan to perpetuate the RethinkDB open-source software project by transitioning it to a community-driven endeavor. Today’s announcement by the Cloud…
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Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Beringei: A high-performance time series storage engine
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Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty
Posted by James Cook, Yechen Li, Software Engineers and Ravi Kumar, Research Scientist"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everythin...
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Making Google Data Studio Free for Everyone
Today, Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is even more relevant and broad reaching.
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Causality in machine learning
By OMKAR MURALIDHARAN, NIALL CARDIN, TODD PHILLIPS, AMIR NAJMI Given recent advances and interest in machine learning, those of us with tr...
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016
We take a deep dive on hard drive performance stats from 73,653 hard drives. What are the most reliable hard drives by size, manufacturer, and model?
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.NET Core Image Processing
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and I’ll outline interesting features. I’ll conclude with a…
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.