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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,224 posts.
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Choose SQL
Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.
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Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes?
PostgreSQL have supported Hash Index for a long time, but they are not much used in production mainly because they are not durable. Now, ...
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How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Introducing FreeNAS Corral
In the TrueNAS blog, discover the latest in scalable data storage solutions. Stay updated on the latest innovations in TrueNAS technology.
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PostgreSQL Parallel Query v2
A recent Twitter poll asked What is your favorite upcoming feature of PostgreSQL V10? In this admittedly unscientific survey, "better para...
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How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud
Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
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Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
Your AMP pages have a higher than usual bounce rate? Don't worry, your data may be wrong. In this article, I explain you why.
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Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
👉 The decision was close, but the team has decided to keep looking for someone who might have more direct neural net experience.\n👉 Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought process and results was confusing for some people in the room.\n👉 He’s needing someone with an image analysis background for data…
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R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind
Examines market share or popularity of data science software by comparing the number of jobs available for each software package.
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Mathematicians becoming data scientists
I was talking the other day with a former student at UW, Sarah Rich, who’s done degrees in both math and CS and then went off to Twitter. I asked her: so what would you say to a math Ph.D. …
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Deploying PostgreSQL Clusters Using StatefulSets
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to build a PostgreSQL cluster using the new Kubernetes StatefulSet feature. In an earlier post, I described how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. The following example provides the…
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Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB
Azure helps you build, run, and manage your applications. Get the latest news, updates, and announcements here from experts at the Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks (2012)
Of all the programming styles I have learned, dynamic programming is perhaps the most beautiful. It can take problems that, at first glance, look ugly and intractable, and solve the problem with clean, concise code. Where a simplistic algorithm might accomplish something by brute force, dynamic programming steps back…
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…
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Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
Members of the public can search a newly released database of 1,600 stars to find signs of undiscovered exoplanets. The dataset, taken over two decades by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, comes with an open-source software package and an online tutorial.
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Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.