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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 314 posts.
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PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
Run PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes, and see how convenient it is to use distributed features like parallel remote Postgres queries!
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NumPy 1.20
This NumPy release is the largest so made to date, some 684 PRs contributed by 184 people have been merged. See the list of highlights below for more details. The Python versions supported for this release are 3.7-3.9, support for Python 3.6 has been dropped. Highlights are
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Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
NVIDIA data scientists took three of the top spots in a brain tumor segmentation challenge validation phase at the prestigious MICCAI 2021.
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SQLite Archive Files (2018)
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database.
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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
See how Honeycomb reduced Kafka cost by a total of 87% per megabyte/sec of throughput w/ AWS’s new Amazon EC2 lm4gn instance family and Confluent Tiered Storage.
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OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally
Learn about dRAID in OpenZFS 2.1. Explore its data protection capabilities, distributed hot spares, faster resilvering, and enhanced performance in this article.
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An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems
Disclaimer: I used to work for Materialize which is one of the systems being compared in this post.
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Inserting 130M SQLite rows per minute from a scripting language
The other week, I stumbled on the post Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute , which was a funny coincidence, as I was just in...
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Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The…
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have chosen to remain anonymous. They uncovered most of the evidence reported in this post. These researchers are not connected in any way to…
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Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers
Read blog posts about Spice.ai OSS from the team and community
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Good data scientist, bad data scientist
What separates a good Data Scientist from a bad one?
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Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP
Build a redis server in Elixir
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Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0
Explore the changes and reasons behind OpenZFS 2.0. This article clarifies the transition from feature flags and its impact on FreeBSD 13.
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Excess Deaths in 2020
Update Updated on April 29th, 2021. The CDC continues to update its counts of deaths by cause for 2020 as data comes in from the jurisdictions that report to it. The data are by now fairly complete, though there are still significant gaps in several states due to delayed reporting. North Carolina, in particular, has…
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Cloudera taken private for $5.3B, acquires Datacoral and Cazena
Cloudera Blog is your source for expert guidance on the latest data and AI trends, technology innovation, best practices, success stories, and more.
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Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast
Shipping a new data-centric product is hard, and under tight time constraints it's even harder. Here are 4 tips that are proven to help you ship new products fast.
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Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?
NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?
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Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write…
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Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
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Databricks is an RDBMS
Databricks combines the best of data lakes and data warehouses.
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Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
People talk a lot about “pull” vs. “push” based query engines, and it’s pretty obvious what that means colloquially, but some of the details can be a bit hard to figure out.
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ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.