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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 272 posts.
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Efficient GraphQL Queries in Ruby on Rails and Postgres
We discuss what N+1 queries are, how they are easily produced in GraphQL, and how to solve them using the graphql-batch gem along with a few custom batch loaders.
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Shenandoah GC in production: experience report
Update: I've made several edits to the post since Aleksey Shipilëv was kind enough to suggest many corrections and improvements.If you closely follow JVM development scene, you've probably noticed ...
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AWS Data Exchange
We live in a data-intensive, data-driven world! Organizations of all types collect, store, process, analyze data and use it to inform and improve their decision-making processes. The AWS Cloud is well-suited to all of these activities; it offers vast amounts of storage, access to any conceivable amount of compute…
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Parallelism in PostgreSQL
Parallelism in PostgreSQL was implemented as part of multiple features which cover sequential scans, aggregates, and joins.
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Datamining Bandersnatch
You may have heard about Bandersnatch , an interactive film released on Netflix as part of the Black Mirror series. I’ve heard about it when it was released, but didn’t get around to watch it until recently, and I was surprised at how deep and thorough the implementation is. The film consists of:
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Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
In 2010, Google engineers Daniel Peng & Frank Dabek published Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications , which described Percolator: a Google-internal database for random access transactional workloads where low latencies are not required. Percolator uses a global…
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Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Researchers encode the word “hello” in fabricated DNA, convert it back to digital using fully automated DNA storage system.
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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Ma…
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Read Couchbase engineering tutorials, product news, and customer stories on AI agents, Capella, vector search, mobile sync, and real-time analytics.
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CVE-2019-9193: Not a Security Vulnerability
There is widespread mention in the media of a security vulnerability in PostgreSQL, registered as [CVE-2019-9193](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9193). The PostgreSQL Security Team …
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
A question that is frequently occurring among my SQL training’s participants is: What’s the difference between putting a predicate in the JOIN .. ON clause and the WHERE clause? I can d…
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Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft…
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Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why we’ve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects – both our own and others’ – continues to…
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FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
TLDR: Here is the code to explore.
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Math in Data Science
Find out how much math is involved in data science and what math you need to know to get started in a data science role.
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Data Still Dominates
I’m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it’s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful… I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important…
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Forecasting in Python with Prophet
A guided walkthrough of how to use the Prophet python library to solve a common forecasting problem.
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PostgreSQL 11 Reestablishes Window Functions Leadership
PostgreSQL 11 offers the best OVER clause support among its competitors, true procedures, and improvements in FETCH FIRST and XML.
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Databases always have a schema (2018)
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…
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Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
Read how we built a flexible, high-performance columnar compression mechanism for PostgreSQL to add scalability to our favorite database.