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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 272 posts.
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Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
2019-09-05: YugaByte’s blog post states YugaByte DB “passes Jepsen tests”. We feel obligated to state that YugaByte DB’s Jepsen test suite does not pass, though it may in the future. Race conditions in YugaByte DB’s schema system can cause correctness errors. For example, inserting rows into a freshly-created table…
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ORMs Are Backwards
Not bad just backwards
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Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
This article is the first installment of a two-post series on Building a machine reading comprehension system using the latest advances in deep learning for NLP.
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The difference between isolation levels and consistency levels
(Editor's note: This post is cross-posted on Fauna's blog, where Daniel Abadi serves as an adviser . Fauna is is a serverless, cloud data...
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
Explore how our customers use TiDB to handle their mission-critical workloads.
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Math in Data Science
Find out how much math is involved in data science and what math you need to know to get started in a data science role.
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Parallelism in PostgreSQL
Parallelism in PostgreSQL was implemented as part of multiple features which cover sequential scans, aggregates, and joins.
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Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
In this post, we’re going to be demonstrating how to to build a state of the art Bacterial Classification model on Gradient using the Fast.ai machine learning library.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 108,461 hard drives in use at Backblaze's data centers.
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Memory Management in Python
To speed-up memory operations and reduce fragmentation Python uses a special manager on top of the general-purpose allocator, called PyMalloc.
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PartiQL: One query language for all your data
Data is being gathered and created at rates unprecedented in history. Much of this data is intended to drive business outcomes but, according to the Harvard Business Review, “…on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used in making decisions…” The root of the problem is that data is…
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Postgres tips for the average and power user
A collection of power user tips for those working with Postgres
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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Ma…
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Math versus Dirty Data
At Google, our organization designs, owns, and maintains a number of optimization models that automate the planning of Google’s datacenter growth and health. As is pretty standard in supply chain optimization and planning, these models are often integer linear programs. It’s a core competency of operations research…
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
Software engineer specializing in query engines and distributed systems
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