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Lessons learned scraping 100B product pages
Price Intelligence experience scraping over 100 billion product pages. Learn the best practices and demands of extracting product data from e-commerce stores.
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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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Datomic Cloud
Announcing Datomic Cloud: a fully AWS-integrated database, up and running from the Marketplace in minutes, delivering the complete Datomic information model.
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RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability
Today we’re proud to announce RethinkDB 2.1 ( Forbidden Planet ). Download it now !
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production
How Heap runs 10 million postgreSQL indexes in production.
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All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
TL;DR — We are excited to announce voyage-multimodal-3, a new state-of-the-art for multimodal embeddings and a big step forward towards seamless RAG and semantic search for documents rich with both…
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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
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Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)
In recent times, there have been a couple of tremendously popular blog posts explaining JOINs using Venn Diagrams. After all, relational algebra and SQL are set oriented theories and languages, so …
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Perf Is Not Enough
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. | Reading time: 17 min read
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
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Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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Understanding Smallpond and 3FS
A concise breakdown of what smallpond and 3FS are, how to use them, and if they're suitable for your data processing needs.
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We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We moved MongoDB Atlas off AWS and onto self-hosted Hetzner boxes — 90% cost cut, no performance loss. Here's the setup, the Ansible, and what broke.
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Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere
We introduce Polars Cloud, the distributed cloud architecture to scale and run Polars anywhere.
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How We Built Fly Postgres
The database. The app. The legend.
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SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
Transitioning SQLite from a local development tool to a production-grade database requires a deep understanding of its internal mechanics. This article explores how to tune WAL mode, manage busy handlers, and leverage custom Virtual File System (VFS) layers to achieve ultra-low latency.