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The Elastic Stack: Future of ELK Platform
Ship context-driven AI applications on Elastic's unified data platform, optimized for accurate and efficient retrieval at petabyte scale. Get started in minutes.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,225 posts.
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The "it" in AI models is the dataset
I’ve been at OpenAI for almost a year now. In that time, I’ve trained a lot of generative models. More than anyone really has any right to train. As I’ve spent these hours observing the effects of tweaking various model configurations and h
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Data engineering and software engineering are converging
The official JS client for connecting to ClickHouse.
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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine
In this technical deep dive, we take a look at the columnar engine that delivers industry leading query performance for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.
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SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction
A misconception that I held for a really long time was that systems that use SQL (Structured Query Language) are by definition relational databases, and systems that don’t (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) are non-relational. It’s easy to understand whether a database uses SQL or not, but what does it mean when we say a…
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Conservation of Intent: why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look
When a +10% isn’t really a +10% OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right?
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PostgreSQL is eating the database world
PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream best practice.
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FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here
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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AuthZ: Scalable permissions system
How we built an authorization system based on Google Zanzibar
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Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema
Dealing with real-world data is hard. You often end up stuck between the document model of JSON and the relational model of SQL databases. There's a better way. It's called super-structured data.
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Django SQLite Production Config
Optimize your Django SQLite configuration for production.
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I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
Learn how queues make horizontal scaling, scheduling, and flow control easier in cloud systems, and how to make them durable and observable.
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Encrypting Postgres Data at Rest in Kubernetes
An example of how you can encrypt Postgres data at rest using PGO, the open source Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data using AWS EBS gp2 volumes.
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Run SQL on JSON files without any data loads
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Stranger in a Strange Land: “Big Data” programmer meets HPC community
I attended the SIAM PP 2014 conference this week, because I'm developing an interest in MPI-style parallel algorithms (also, it was close b...
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PredictionIO – open source machine learning for predictive features
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Building a production-grade engine to predict users’ preferences ...
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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs
How and why marimo represents notebooks as dataflow graphs
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Data on 1.2M Facebook users from 2005 (2011) [use archive.org url in thread]
Recently, a Facebook dataset was released consisting of the complete set of users from the Facebook networks at 100 American institutions, and all of the in-network “friendship” links between those…
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Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
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WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream
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Pythran as a bridge between fast prototyping and code deployment
As a researcher/engineer (really, an algorithm developer) in the general area of audio and speech processing, I've always run into the same difficulty at all the companies I've worked at: How to quickly prototype and develop algorithms, and subsequently turn them into efficient code that can be deployed to customers.
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Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 1
In June 2016 Ravi Mody and Tim Schmeier gave a presentation at the NYC Machine Learning meetup to discuss their work on the data science…
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How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets
There are data sources out there, but which data source you choose depends on which technology you wish to get experience working with. The experience should be of the technologies you are using, rather than what the data is. Certain datasets pair better with certain technologies. Simulating the data can be another…
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OpenTelemetry protocol with Apache Arrow
We are excited to announce the next phase of the OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow project (OTel-Arrow). We began this project several years ago with the goal of bridging between OpenTelemetry data and the Apache Arrow ecosystem. Apache Arrow is a framework designed for zero-copy exchange of structured data…