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Under unsupervised learning, all the objects in the same group (cluster) should be more similar to each other than to those in other clusters; data points from different clusters should be as different as possible. Clustering allows you to find and organize data into groups that have been formed organically, rather…
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…
Shopify’s Data team uses these foundational approaches to data warehousing and analysis empowering us to deliver the best results for our ecosystem.
This paper from Sigmod 2021 presents FoundationDB, a transactional key-value store that supports multi-key strictly serializable transacti...
The blog post will share the four phases of Real-time Data Infrastructure’s iterative journey in Netflix (2015-2021). For each phase, we will go over the evolving business motivations, the team’s unique challenges, the strategy bets, and the use case patterns we discovered along the way.
PostgreSQL has a robust set of features which we can leverage to create a generic auditing solution in 150 lines of SQL.
Addressing causal problems on major eBay and Facebook
pg-osc is a CLI tool for making non-blocking, zero downtime schema changes in PostgreSQL
Filebase now supports IPFS! Learn more about our latest network integration and how you can pin data onto IPFS in seconds, at a fraction of the cost of existing services.
SQLite 3.38.0 introduced improvements to JSON query syntax using -> and ->> operators that are similar to PostgreSQL JSON functions. In this post we...
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
In this post, we’ll implement and optimize a text search system based on Postgres Trigrams
Timescale just raised $110 million in our Series C, led by Tiger Global alongside all existing investors: Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates.
Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on using data and algorithms to mimic the way people learn, progressively improving its accuracy. This way, Machine Learning is one of the most interesting methods in Computer Science these days, and it'
The virtual machine? Yep, but not the Java Virtual Machine.
This section is a follow-up to the previous one , where we optimized binary search by the means of removing branching and improving the memory layout. Here, we will also be searching in sorted arrays, but this time we are not limited to fetching and comparing only one element at a time.
This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.
Star us on GitHub In each subdomain of software, we have seen the same story over and over again. Products start small, in time, add adjacent verticals and functionality to their offerings and end up becoming a platform. Once these platforms become big enough, people start to figure out how
Spoiler alert: I found some intriguing patterns…
It was 5:17pm today, just as I was wrapping up work for the day, and my manager pinged me with the following chat: <manager>: Hi Jeremy – we have a <other team> ticket – esc…
A wire protocol is the format for interactions between a database server and its clients. It encompasses authentication, sending queries, receiving responses, and so on. It is a description of the exact bytes sent and received by servers and clients. It does NOT encompass the actual query language itself, let alone…
poking inside postgres pages
The problem with building a device that is good at keeping secrets is that it turns users into the weakest link.
The Foundation sponsored feature reflows existing data to rewrite it onto a new arrangement of disks thereby freeing space at the end of the logical RAID-Z group The FreeBSD Foundation funded the project to ensure the completion and release of an easy-to-use and practical application. The project came in under budget…
Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent I've got this working theory that you can...
Radix DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) is a distributed ledger: a serializable log of transactions over a state machine, along with mechanisms for querying that state. Throughout this report, “Radix” refers to the Radix DLT software .
