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TimescaleDB raises $40M
We just raised a $40M Series B to bring our relational database for time-series to developers everywhere. Learn how we got started and what’s still yet to come.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,337 posts.
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Charts built for Chat
We're open sourcing dbt Charts, a declarative language for dashboards, so that even the dashboards you build by chatting with an agent can be governed.
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Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017
In this update, we’ll review the Q2 2017 and lifetime hard drive failure rates for all our current drive models including enterprise and consumers drives.
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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
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Azure Data Studio: An Open-Source GUI Editor for Postgres
When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it. PostgreSQL has a command line tool, psql, and it’s pretty powerful, but some people much prefer a graphical editor.
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PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.
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Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?
I was reading a post recently about Red Hat removing MongoDB support from Satellite (and yes, some folks say it is because of the license changes). It made me think how often over the last few years I’ve seen post after angry post about how terrible MongoDB is and how no one should ever use. However, […]
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Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
We just announced the release of TimescaleDB, a new open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, now available on GitHub.
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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
I know, this list is not for this, but I just couldn't resist. Please forgive me.
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Postgres Indexes for Newbies
Samples of b-tree, GIN, and GIST indexes for Postgres beginners.
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Why Julia
it's faster than other scripting languages, allowing you to have the rapid development of Python/MATLAB/R while producing code that is as fast as C/Fortran
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Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow
Discover some of the most common software bugs that businesses are struggling with and unlock effective strategies to overcome them.
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Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
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Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite
It appears that the clang-11.0.0 compiler mis-compiles sqlite3.c version 3.32.1. I have checked in a change to SQLite that appears to work around the problem. But there might be other bugs. Therefore, use clang-11.0.0 with caution and test your applications carefully!
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TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
Our TimescaleDB vs Amazon Timestream results surprised us, but after intensive testing, we found Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key capabilities.
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Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?
Anaconda Scale Customer Event Join us live October 15th Save Your Seat Anaconda Blog
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Investigating Linux phantom disk reads
An investigation of weird hardware utilization highlighting some interesting Linux kernel behaviors.
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Skip the API, ship your database
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
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TigerBeetle is a most interesting database
This read goes behind the scenes of how TigerBeetle came to be, the incredibly novel software they’ve built, and all of the wacky, wonderful things that make them so special.
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)
This is a briefing on SQLite intended for Linux kernel hackers, and especially those working on Linux filesystems.
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How Postgres chooses which index to use for a query
How the Postgres planner breaks down a query into scans and how this impacts indexing choices
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Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web
Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.
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Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
111 GB of internal customer information from National Credit Federation was left exposed in a publicly downloadable data repository. This is its story.