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A Look at MyRocks Performance
Taking a look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing.
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The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization
Why using cryptographic hashes doesn't make data anonymous.
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Scaling a High-Traffic Rate Limiting Stack with Redis Cluster
Flattening a single very hot vertical Redis node into a horizontal Redis Cluster at Stripe.
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Managed Redis on Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud provides managed database services for your favorite open source data stores as well as Google proprietary technologies. Today we’re announcing updates to both.
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One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released
MySQL is the last major SQL database that has evolved beyond SQL-92 by introducing window functions (OVER) and common table expressions (WITH [RECURSIVE])
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How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (2014)
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."
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Datomic: Look at all the things I'm not doing
A post by August Lilleaas, published April 20, 2018.
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Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing
IoT applications generate torrents of data. Learn how - and why - to use TimescaleDB to scale PostgreSQL by 20x and harness its power for IoT.
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Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science
Funding open source software development is a complicated subject. I’m excited to announce that I’ve founded Ursa Labs ( https://ursalabs.org ), an independent development lab with the mission of innovation in data science tooling.
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB
FoundationDB is a distributed datastore, designed from the ground up to be deployed on clusters of commodity hardware. These clusters scale well as you add machines, automatically heal from hardware failures, and have a simple API. The key-value store supports fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. That’s the…
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Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 improves machine learning performance and reduces fraud by up to an additional 25%.
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Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available
Among open-source relational databases, PostgreSQL is one of the most popular—and the most sought-after by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that PostgreSQL is now generally available and fully supported for all customers on our Cloud SQL fully-managed database service.
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Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor
Today, we're releasing two of the biggest updates in Mode's history, designed not only to make Mode more powerful, but also to make that power accessible to everyone.
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You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
The Domino Data Lab blog is home to all things data science and machine learning, with information and resources tailored to data science professionals.
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My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter
In today's data-driven world, data is valuable. Extracting insight, answering questions, and meaningful metrics from data by way of querying and data manipulation is an integral component of SQL in general. This blog presents a combination of 8 interesting, differing PostgreSQL queries or types of queries to explore…
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Kafka, GDPR and Event Sourcing
Proof of concept for compliance with GDPR on an Event Sourcing architecture built with Apache Kafka.
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EdgeDB: A New Beginning
In a few weeks we will release the first public technology preview of EdgeDB—a new open-source object-relational database. This post is a brief introduction and is the first in the series.
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Problems with CSVs (2016)
Much of my professional work for the last 10+ years has revolved around handling, importing and exporting CSV files. CSV files are frustratingly misunderstood, abused, and most of all underspecified. While RFC4180 exists, it is far from definitive and goes largely ignored.
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Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
SQLite does not use the Git version control system. SQLite uses Fossil instead, which is a version control system that was specifically designed and written to support SQLite.
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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
Data science is increasingly popular at Berkeley because the world is increasingly data-driven
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Protecting GDPR Personal Data with Pseudonymization
If you’ve had the chance to read our GDPR white paper or our previous GDPR primer blog post, you’ve, no doubt, seen the word "pseudonymization" used extensively to describe one technical measure that ...
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CockroachDB 2.0 released
Since our 1.0 release, we have been hard at work making CockroachDB 2.0 the database that enables a company’s data layer to evolve with their business -- whether they are in a single datacenter or expanding around the world.
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CockroachDB 2.0 Performance Makes Significant Strides
Learn which performance metrics matter, why to demand benchmark TPC-C results under serializable isolation, and how CockroachDB 2.0’s performance compares to 1.1.
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Managing database schema changes without downtime
How we manage schema changes at Discourse minimizing downtime
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Data on 1.2M Facebook users from 2005 (2011) [use archive.org url in thread]
Recently, a Facebook dataset was released consisting of the complete set of users from the Facebook networks at 100 American institutions, and all of the in-network “friendship” links between those…
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Exploring Word2Vec
In my previous blog post, I explored some of the early ways of word embeddings and their shortcomings. The purpose of this post is to explo...