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Last week, during Tomas ' keynote at MySQL Percona Live Conference in London we announced as one of "previews" of the following MySQL 5.7 release(s) -- an over 1,000,000 Query/sec result obtained with InnoDB Memcached plugin on a Read-Only workload. This article here is just to confirm the announced results without…
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
2019-04-10: The long fork test used in this analysis contained a bug which caused it to (in many cases) fail to identify long fork anomalies. We have re-checked YugaByte DB 1.1.15.0-b16 with a corrected checker, and its long fork tests still pass.
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A story about a bug with logical replication slot creation on Postgres read replicas
Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth’s CO2. A research team at the University of Basel has now discovered a protein shell in these algae that is necessary for efficient CO2 fixation. This groundbreaking discovery can…
At Flickr our users really care about image quality. They also care a lot about how responsive our apps are. Addressing both of these concerns simultaneously is challenging; higher quality images have larger file sizes and are slower to transfer. Slow transfers are especially noticeable on mobile devices. Flickr had…
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
Building a robust background worker system that leverages transactional isolation to never work a job too early, and transactional durability to never let one drop.
Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing open source streaming solutions (Apache Kafka®), KSQL (the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka) a…
Following up on the work from our previous blog post, we are releasing today an arXiv paper titled “Giraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMs”. Giraffe is a new family of models that are...
Quickwit 0.8 brings indexing and search at an unprecedented scale, indexing at 1PB/day and searching through 50 PB is a reality.
Everybody (1, 2, 3) is talking about big data and the chances that are not to be missed. So it would be fatal to miss this opportunity, for instance, by impo...
Naive Bayes classifiers, a family of classifiers that are based on the popular Bayes’ probability theorem, are known for creating simple yet well performing…
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
At Lyft, scientists solve all kinds of optimization problems. While solvers can come in handy, there are times when complicated or…
TiDB is the distributed SQL database built for AI agents. Vectors, transactions, and analytics in one engine with ACID guarantees and elastic scale.
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…
My colleague Jed Sundwall wrote the guest post below to show you how one of the newest AWS Public Data Sets is being put to use. — Jeff; You can now access over 85,000 Landsat 8 scenes through our newest Public Data Set: Landsat on AWS. The scenes are all available in the landsat-pds bucket […]
We are thrilled to introduce Argilla Feedback, completely open-source and designed to enhance the performance, safety and reliability of Large Language Models.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released 9.4 Beta 3, the next beta release of the new version. This beta …
Estimating expected time of arrival (ETA) is crucial to what we do at Lyft. Estimates go directly to riders and drivers using our apps, as…
At Terrateam, we are big fans of Fly.io. The service is hosted there and it’s served us well. Just deploy your TOML file, get your infrastructure, do something else with the rest of your day. One of the interesting sides of Fly is that they invest heavily in server-side SQLite. They’ve written a number of blog posts…
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.
Writing an ETL script is easy; making it production-ready and maintainable is much harder. Why to use an open-source EL(T) framework instead.
