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I saw Martin Kleppmann’s talk a few weeks ago about his approach to realtime editing with CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I’ve been doing for the past decade won’t be part of the future after all, because Martin’s
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
PostgreSQL is a major open-source relational database with a 23-year history and a broad range of features. While Jepsen’s work has traditionally focused on distributed systems, our tooling is readily applicable to traditional, single-node databases. In this report, we present the results of applying Jepsen’s…
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2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
To help fellow engineers wrap their head around Apache Kafka and event streaming, I wrote a 4-part series on the Confluent blog on Kafka’s core fundamentals....
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An SQLite database file with a defined schema often makes an excellent application file format. Here are a dozen reasons why this is so:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 13](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13.html), the latest version of the world’s [most advanced …
These are the changes in pandas 1.0.0. See Release notes for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.
Most SQL database engines are implemented as a separate server process. Programs that want to access the database communicate with the server using some kind of interprocess communication (typically TCP/IP) to send requests to the server and to receive back results. SQLite does not work this way. With SQLite, the…
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How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages!
I’m a huge fan of databases, so much so that I’ve written a book on so-called “NoSQL” databases, I spent some of my most fruitful years in tech working on the highly influential distributed database Riak , and I even built a database called Purple last year just for fun.
Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/data, leadership, and building tech teams.
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Dataset Search launches publicly with an index of 25 million datasets, helping scientists, journalists, students, data geeks to find data.
For people who've worked through Mastery with SQL , a common question I get is "What's next?" If you completed the course and all 150+ exercises, at this point you'll have a very strong grasp of SQL and should be comfortable writing all sorts of complex queries. However, there's more to working with databases…
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, this article reviews an updated set of data infrastructure architectures.
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
Having a good database schema design is crucial for building applications that will need to scale in traffic and complexity. If you happen to do a bad design choice you will see that it takes a lot of effort to stop the pattern from propagating to your backends’ services and controllers, and finally to your frontend.
SUMMARY A hand-check of the 15,000 images in the widely used Udacity Dataset 2 found problems in 4,986 of them (33%), including thousands of unlabeled vehicles, hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians, dozens of unlabeled cyclists, and 217 completely unannotated images that contained real objects. Phantom annotations…
A talk at Hydra distributed computing conference , online (originally planned to be in Moscow, Russia), 06 Jul 2020
