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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 113 posts.
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Ggplot2 version 2.0.0 released by Hadley Wickham
ggplot2 2.0.0: official extension mechanism, new geoms (geom_count, geom_curve, geom_label), appearance tweaks, and facet labels.
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PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
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RethinkDB Driver for Java now available
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of our Java client driver for RethinkDB. Visit the installation instructions for details about how to use it in your Java project.
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InfluxDB is now InfluxData, a platform for time series data
Today we're announcing that InfluxDB, the company, is now InfluxData. This is the beginning of delivering on our long-term vision.
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Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way We Think
Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot of the time, when customers make this request, they have something very specific, and different, ...
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Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia
Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, Pearl Li, Erica Moszkowski, and Micah Smith We have implemented the FRBNY DSGE model in a free and open-source language called Julia. The code is posted here on GitHub, a public repository hosting service. This effort is the result of a collaboration between New York Fed staff and folks…
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Apache Kafka 0.9 is released
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
As data-driven research becomes more mainstream, the need for efficient and powerful scientific computing tools increases. To help meet this need, the Gordon an…
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store
Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring
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Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor
SolarWinds database performance monitoring software helps optimize and manage databases, providing comprehensive monitoring, analysis, and tuning. Improve your database performance with visibility, control, and streamlined management across on-premises and cloud environments. Free trial available!
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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
Read the post on "Introducing Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage" from our blog.
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Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second
MariaDB 10.1 not only contains tons of new features, it has also been polished to deliver top performance. The biggest improvement has been achieved for scalability on massively multithreaded hardware. The following numbers show the throughput for a simplified sysbench OLTP benchmark on MariaDB-10.1.8 compared to…
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Data Infrastructure at IFTTT
Get more from the services you love on IFTTT. Explore the latest tips and tricks, browse by category, or search by name.
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Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis
R vs Python — which is better for data analysis and data science? Compare the two languages side by side for an objective answer!
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be defined up-front. It supports…
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Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr
At Flickr our users really care about image quality. They also care a lot about how responsive our apps are. Addressing both of these concerns simultaneously is challenging; higher quality images have larger file sizes and are slower to transfer. Slow transfers are especially noticeable on mobile devices. Flickr had…
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Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction
Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over time, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed […]
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GraphQL: A data query language
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Etcd 2.2
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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