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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,225 posts.
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Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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How to beat the CAP theorem
The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolera...
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Google Cloud SQL: your database in the cloud
By Navneet Joneja, Product Manager for Google Cloud SQL Cross-posted from the Google App Engine Blog One of App Engine’s most requested...
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Anonymous Correctly Predict The De-listing $1B Company
" Anonymous " has a new project called Anonymous Analytics , which recently predicted that a Hong Kong company, Chaoda Modern Agriculture h...
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ORM is an anti-pattern
ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
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Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB
A memory image replaces database interactions with in-memory data using event sourcing to record persistent changes
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Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
This HTML version of is provided for convenience, but it is not the best format for the book. In particular, some of the symbols are not rendered correctly.
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37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé
I was an A/B test skeptic. Maybe we don’t want to be second-guessed. Maybe we don’t want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Designers are taught—explicitly and implicitly—to follow certain visual rules and the final design will work great. The whole A/B testing concept probably …
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Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack
Perhaps one of the first inescapable observations that a new Google developer ( Noogler ) makes once they dive into the code is that Protocol Buffers (PB) is the "language of data" at Google. Put simply, Protocol Buffers are used for serialization, RPC, and about everything in between .
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LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess…
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SQLAlchemy and You
The Django ORM feels so much easier than SQLAlchemy? Maybe this article can change your perception.
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Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
Charlie Park believes in you.
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