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PlanetScale Boost
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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Databases & Data
The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 4,222 posts.
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SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File
Run Rails on SQLite with WAL and Docker volumes while accounting for the concurrency failure that appears during blue-green deploys.
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Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Column order in PostgreSQL does matter
Column order can determine how quickly your data is processed in PostgreSQL. Find out how to troubleshoot performance problems in wide tables
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PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
Explore how organizations leverage Gemini Embedding for context-aware AI systems improving performance, accuracy, and efficiency across diverse industries.
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
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File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph
This paper is by Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...
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The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
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HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
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IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers
At IKEA we are building a knowledge graph to improve the overall experience of our customers in the physical and digital space. I like to…
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Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
Tutorial and comparison with RAG methods
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PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances
With the second gen of Graviton2 instances announced, we decided to take a look at the price/performance from the standpoint of running PostgreSQL.
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Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale
Jonathan Arns's personal blog
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RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
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Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector
A straightforward idea, gluing stuff together until it works, but it’s a glimpse of what’s possible with help of local AIs in near future
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Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
I am planning to create a series of blog posts that includes some literature research, implementation of various data structures and our journey of creating a distributed datastore in distrentic.io.
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Artificial intelligence, like machine learning before it, is making big money off what I call the “sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ scam.” The scam works as follows. Build a sy…
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Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
The engineering blog of Bill P. Godfrey.
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State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
Read OpenRouter's 2025 State of AI report — an empirical 100 trillion token study of real LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights.
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Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
Explore the latest updates from Caylent, including industry trends, expert insights, company news, and more.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.