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Last Mile Redis
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
The Domino Data Lab blog is home to all things data science and machine learning, with information and resources tailored to data science professionals.
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Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan
At Spacelift, we use PostgreSQL (specifically Aurora Serverless) for most of our primary database needs. This article will show you our optimization story and how PostgreSQL row count estimation can go very wrong.
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Exactly-once Semantics: How Kafka Does it
Exactly-once is a hard problem to solve, but we've done it. Available now in Apache Kafka 0.11, exactly-once semantics.
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CouchDB 2.0
The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0. See also the official Apache Press Release. CouchDB 2.0 is 99% API compatible with the 1.x s…
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Apache Arrow is 10 years old
The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10 years, the project has developed in many unforeseen ways and we believe to have delivered on our objective of…
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Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable
As businesses become increasingly data-centric, and with the coming age of the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises and data-driven orga...
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The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Under unsupervised learning, all the objects in the same group (cluster) should be more similar to each other than to those in other clusters; data points from different clusters should be as different as possible. Clustering allows you to find and organize data into groups that have been formed organically, rather…
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UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
MySQL UUIDs are still very popular despite a majority of posts warning against their usage. Learn what UUIDs are and why they are very bad for MySQL performance.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 108,461 hard drives in use at Backblaze's data centers.
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A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
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Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes
Possibly one of the biggest hurdles that stands in the way of fostering innovation and discovering newer and better techniques of doing old things is the ease with which developers and designers to…
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MemSQL is now free to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage
SingleStore: Now Free to Use
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Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector
An example of how to build an AI-powered search engine using OpenAI's embeddings and PostgreSQL.
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The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists…
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PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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FerretDB: open-source MongoDB alternative
After many months of development, FerretDB is now production-ready. We are excited to announce the general availability of FerretDB v1.0.
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Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security
At Nile, we’re making it easier for companies to build world-class control planes for their infra SaaS products
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Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines
A complete guide to building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from training to deployment, with Metaflow and Cortex
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Apache Spark Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case
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Cloud Spanner is now production-ready
Google Cloud migration partners offer their thoughts on database migrations to Cloud Spanner.