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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,224 posts.
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Cloud Platform at Google I/O – new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products
Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels
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Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
This post covers Elasticsearch 1.1.0. In the months since its publication, Elasticsearch has added a comprehensive overview of correctness issues and their progress towards fixing some of these bugs.
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How to be a Bayesian in Python
See also Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Python-driven Primer , a peer-reviewed article partially based on this content.
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RethinkDB 1.13: pull data via HTTP, push data via changefeeds
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.13 ( My Name is Nobody ). Download it now!
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Call me maybe: etcd and Consul
In the previous post, we discovered the potential for data loss in RabbitMQ clusters . In this oft-requested installation of the Jepsen series, we’ll look at etcd : a new contender in the CP coordination service arena. We’ll also discuss Consul ’s findings with Jepsen.
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I hate stacked area charts (2011)
Another great post
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Call me maybe: RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is a distributed message queue, and is probably the most popular open-source implementation of the AMQP messaging protocol. It supports a wealth of durability, routing, and fanout strategies, and combines excellent documentation with well-designed protocol extensions. I’d like to set all these wonderful…
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NFL players: height and weight over time
An animated look at just how much bigger NFL players have gotten over time.
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PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
Shital Shah's personal website and blog. Research Engineer at Microsoft Research with interests in deep learning and reinforcement learning. Created AirSim, TensorWatch, archai, most recently worked on training Phi series of LLM models.
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ZFS Gotchas
Things Nobody Told You About ZFS Yes, it's back. You may also notice it is now hosted on my Blogger page - just don't have time to deal w...
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Apache Spark 1.0.0
Spark 1.0.0 is a major release marking the start of the 1.X line. This release brings both a variety of new features and strong API compatibility guarantees throughout the 1.X line. Spark 1.0 adds a new major component, Spark SQL , for loading and manipulating structured data in Spark. It includes major extensions to…
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Querying Time Series in PostgreSQL
A blog about computer programs, databases, and the future of software development.
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Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
I had an opportunity to meet Ted Neward at TechEd this year. Ted, among other things, famously coined the phrase “Object-Relational mapping is the Vietnam of our industy” in late 2004. It’s a scary analogy, but an apt one. I’ve seen developers struggle for years with the
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Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management for Versioned Objects
Today I would like to tell you about a powerful new AWS feature that bridges a pair of existing AWS services and makes another pair of existing features far more useful! Let’s start with a quick review. S3 & Versioned Objects I’m sure that you already know about Amazon S3. First launched in 2006, S3 […]
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The Multiple SQLite Problem
If your app makes use of two separate instances of the SQLite library, you can end up with a corrupted SQLite data file.
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