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NumPy-style broadcasting in Futhark
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
Supabase Vault is now in Beta
A Postgres extension to store encrypted secrets and encrypt data.
How to Read a Log Scale
What log scales tell us.
WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
Riak CS is Now Open Source
Riak's cloud storage software is now open source.
Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
Qdrant is an Open-Source Vector Search Engine written in Rust. It provides fast and scalable vector similarity search service with convenient API.
Improving Postgres text search speed
CharityAPI.org improved our Postgres response time so that searches initiated via our API were 760% faster without adding an additional tool like Elastic Search. This is how we did it.
Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
TLDR: Neon separates storage and compute, substituting the PostgreSQL persistency layer with a custom-made distributed storage written in Rust. Due to this separation, some nodes don’t have persistent disks. The original Raft paper works only with uniform nodes, but Paxos variants support proposers without storage and…
Four billion messages an hour: benchmarking Deepstream throughput
A realtime server for the modern web
Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness
PlanetScale Scaler Pro
See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.
Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices
We performed experiments to find out how different Linux system calls perform for available devices.
Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
Introduction to Kumo Relational — the relational foundation model for predictive AI on relational data
Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix
Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva
An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM
Our first Text2SQL model release! | Reading time: 5 min read
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
Backups ensure data continuity, but they're also a surface of risk. See how Fortune 100 vendor Attunity exposed nearly a terabyte of internal backups.
Land Registry data reveals London’s secret tunnels
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Updated 16th Dec 2017 with post-script on Birmingham’s secret tunnels. The existence of a secret network of Cold War-era tunnels beneath central London can be …
Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
At LaunchDarkly, we ingest nearly 100 terabytes of observability data from our customers every month.
Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE
In this post, I discuss an alternate solution; namely, running separate CPU and GPU clusters, and driving the end-to-end modeling process from Apache Spark.