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WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,224 posts.
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RethinkDB 1.12: simplified map/reduce, ARM port, new caching infrastructure
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.12 ( The Wizard of Oz ). Download it now!
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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
ASCII delimited text solves the problems exporting and importing structured text files and is part of the design of the character set. Unfortunately a lot of people and systems use CSV and other pr…
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PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed
Great news: PostgreSQL introduced jsonb support, which is real data type with binary storage and indexing ! This work is a confluence of two projects - our hstore and json, which were existed in PostgreSQL for years in somewhat incomplete forms - hstore (10 years old!) implements key-value storage…
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Principles of good data analysis
Good, thorough data analysis is difficult. Throughout my work, I've found it useful to follow these principles in order to ensure quality and consistency.
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Elasticsearch – the definitive guide
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Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention
In two weeks, I'm headed to LSF/MM and the Linux Collaboration Summit , by invitation of some Linux kernel hackers, to discuss how the Linu...
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Analytics at GitHub
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post.…
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A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions
After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.
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Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'
About a week ago, Randall Munroe published Frequency , the 1331st entry in his xkcd webcomic series. Unlike most xkcd comics, it's animated — actually, 5-by-10 grid of animated GIFs. Each describes a scenario (e.g., "one birth," or "someone locks their keys in their care") and blinks at the scenario's purported…
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Results of the SQL Performance Quiz
SQL indexing: 60% don’t know how to get it right
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Making ActiveRecord 2x faster
TL;DR: AdequateRecord is a set of patches that adds cache stuff to make ActiveRecord 2x faster
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Video Processing at Dropbox
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts
FlapMMO is a new and popular browser game inspired by Flappy Bird. Unlike Flappy Bird, though, each server has hundreds of other players and you can all see each other. It's lots of fun and I previously posted about hacking FlapMMO for mouse control .
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A Case for Upserts
Some thoughts on why upserts are necessary to write reliable web applications.
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
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LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store ...