Best of 2019

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 272 posts.

Databases & Data
155

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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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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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…