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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 304 posts.
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Realtime Data Processing at Facebook
Recently there has been a lot of development in realtime data processing systems, including Twitter's Storm and Heron, Google's Millwheel, a...
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Lua: A Guide for Redis Users
You’ve heard that Redis has an embedded scripting language, but haven’t given it a try yet? Here’s a tour of what you need to understand to use the power of Lua with your Redis server.
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InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality
We are releasing InfluxDB 1.1, which includes a number of key performance and stability improvements as well as some new query capabilities.
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Uber's Move Away from PostgreSQL
Last week, a blog post by an Uber engineer explained why Uber chose to move from PostgreSQL to MySQL . This article was widely reported and...
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MitM-ing Postgres
I recently had to set up a new postgres instance at work. While we’re already using Heroku Postgres for production loads, we had some requirements for this one that couldn’t be solved without being database admin, and thus had to go self-hosted. That...
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Data Wrangling at Slack
For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential. The Data Engineering team at Slack works to provide an ecosystem to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage, so they can make better and data informed…
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Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
Open NYC data reveals the taxi industry’s contraction, Uber’s growth, and the scramble for market share
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Denser 3D Point Clouds in OpenSfM
We've improved OpenSfM—the technology we use to create 3D reconstructions from images. By adding post-processing, we get denser 3D point clouds resulting in better visualization, positioning, and much more.
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Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database
Digital Democracy is now Awana Digital
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The Impact of Index Investing: A Follow-Up
The prior piece received a much stronger reaction than I expected. The topic is complicated, with ideas that are difficult to adequately convey in words, so I’m going to use this piece as a follow-up. I’m going to look at the specific example of the Tech Bubble, which is a clear case in which the broad adoption of a…
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The dark side of big data
Everybody (1, 2, 3) is talking about big data and the chances that are not to be missed. So it would be fatal to miss this opportunity, for instance, by impo...
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SQLite: The art of keeping it simple
16 years after its first checkin , SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine in the world. such open source project is a good candidate to learn how to make your code easy to understand and to maintain.
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Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
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A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib
An overview of the colormaps recommended to replace 'jet' as default.
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How Quid uses deep learning with small data
Enhance your consumer & market intelligence knowledge with our resource library. Discover the role of Generative AI in transforming the digital landscape.
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Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny
Make your own NBA shot charts. Open-source, interactive dashboard interface to NBA Stats API built with R and Shiny
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Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data
Data files are derived from the Google Web Trillion Word Corpus , as described by Thorsten Brants and Alex Franz, and distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium.
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Reasons to choose PostgreSQL 9.6
PostgreSQL 9.6 was released a few days ago and it’s another huge milestone for the PostgreSQL community ! The release notes are way too long, so I’ve decided to pick up 6 big improvements that may change the way you will use PostgreSQL.