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Text Editor: Data Structures
The first step in building my text editor is to implement the core API. If you’re wondering why I want to do this, the original article is here.
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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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I/O Access Methods for Linux
Explore the four different ways to perform disk I/O on Linux and the tradeoffs and what we chose for ScyllaDB to build a high-performing database.
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Call me maybe: Cassandra
Cassandra is a Dynamo system; like Riak, it divides a hash ring into a several chunks, and keeps N replicas of each chunk on different nodes. It uses tunable quorums, hinted handoff, and active anti-entropy to keep replicas up to date. Unlike the Dynamo paper and some of its peers, Cassandra eschews vector clocks in…
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Thinking Psycopg3
Sponsoring this project will help achieve swift completion and ensure the maintenance of psycopg2, psycopg3 and other related projects.
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Tesla Model S battery degradation data
Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book ‘Forward’. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Imp…
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All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
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Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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The challenges of soft delete
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
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Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Backblaze hard drive reliability stats for Q3 2016
We take a look at the hard drive performance of over 65,000 hard drives ranging from 2TB to 8TB drives. Find out the best performers.
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Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis
Cloud Memorystore is fully compatible with open source Redis, letting you migrate your applications to Google Cloud with zero code changes.
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Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer.
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How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations.
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Managing database schema changes without downtime
How we manage schema changes at Discourse minimizing downtime
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An Introduction to Stock Market Data Analysis with R – Part 1
This is my first article in a two-part series introducing stock data analysis using R.
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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
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CouchDB 3.0
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
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2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
The 2020 Cloud Report compares AWS, GCP, and Azure on microbenchmarks and customer-like-workloads to understand performance tradeoffs within each cloud.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
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Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier
At BigML we believe that over the next few years automated, data-driven decisions and data-driven applications are going to change the world. In fact, we think it will be the biggest shift in busi…
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Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Many companies are running old Postgres versions and missing out on many improvements. The reasons: Postgres works and upgrades suck.
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SQL is Agile
Thoughts about why relational databases are not a bad choice when starting a new project.
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Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
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What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
Postgres 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. This post is a deep dive into 10 of the improvements, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between Postgres 15 & Postgres 16.
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In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model
Who's the customer, anyway?
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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.