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database-doctor.com Let us finally look at what is so wrong with the Iceberg spec and why this simply isn't a serious attempt at solving the metadata problem of large Data Lakes. In the first part of this I took..."]
04.08.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What is Apache Arrow Flight, Flight SQL & ADBC? ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) have long been the industry standard for connecting databases with…
04.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What Are Deletion Vectors (DLV)? - Confessions of a Data Guy Deletion Vectors are a soft‑delete mechanism in Delta Lake that enables Merge‑on‑Read (MoR) behavior, letting update/delete/merge operations mark row positions as removed without rewriting the underlying Parquet files. This contrasts with the older Copy‑on‑Write (CoW) model, where even a single deleted record triggers rewriting of entire files YouTube+8docs.delta.io+8Medium+8. Supported since Delta Lake 2.3 (read-only), full […]
04.08.2025 03:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Delta Lake transaction logs explained The foundation for reliable, scalable and auditable data lakes.
03.08.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No more disks: the architecture behind stateless compute in ClickHouse Cloud ClickHouse Cloud compute is now fully stateless. This post introduces the final piece that made it possible, a new in-memory database engine powered by a Shared Catalog, and walks through how we got there.
03.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 1 of 2: History Iceberg: The great unifying vision finally allowing us to escape the vendor lock-in of our database engines. One table and metadata format to find them ... And in the darkness bind I the..."]
03.08.2025 23:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Reddit Works 🔥 #76: Break Into Reddit Architecture for 100M Daily Users (5 Minutes)
03.08.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog
29.07.2025 05:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Effective Rust - Effective Rust A collection of specific ways to improve your use of Rust
28.07.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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From Async/Await to Virtual Threads A follow-up to how I wish async would work.
26.07.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
thiserror, anyhow, or How I Handle Errors in Rust Apps When I was reading the Rust book for the first time, the chapter regarding error handling was my favorite. For someone who lived for years with exceptions, it was an eye-opener. In short, Rust…
25.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
🏠 Welcome | Boundary Documentation The easiest way to use LLMs
19.07.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The HALO Effect - kwokchain Notes on the recent trend of “Hire and License Out” deals in AI Over the last year, a new breed of deal structure has emerged in AI: an alternative to acquisitions and hiring that shares traits of both yet isn’t quite either. Companies like Inflection, Character AI, Adept, Covariant and most recently Windsurf have used … Continue reading The HALO Effect →
19.07.2025 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No record left behind: How Warpstream can withstand cloud provider regional outages With WarpStream Multi-Region Clusters, we can now ensure that you will also be protected from region-wide cloud provider outages, or single-region control plane failures.
19.07.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview) | Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches while seamlessly integrating with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, SageMaker, and OpenSearch for AI applications.
16.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zig's New Async I/O Asynchronicity is not concurrency.
13.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater Of State Machines How we designed our database for complete control over concurrency, time, randomness, and failure injection.
09.07.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Andrej Karpathy's keynote on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0h1mkwfmV2Plek... Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
08.07.2025 01:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cutting Down Rust Compile Times From 30 to 2 Minutes With One Thousand Crates We'll explore how we can leverage all cores on a machine with rustc using many crates to speed up compilation.
07.07.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - Work Life by Atlassian Explore how Atlassian successfully migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora, overcoming unique technical and operational challenges at massive scale. Learn how the team balanced reliability, performance, and ambitious cost-saving goals—while minimizing downtime and user impact—by leveraging innovative migration strategies, automation, and close collaboration with AWS.
07.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.
04.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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mount -t tigrisfs | Tigris Object Storage Learn how Tigris Data's tigrisfs provides a native filesystem interface for unlimited, globally accessible cloud storage. Bridge the gap between cloud and local, enabling seamless integration with existing tools and tackling big data challenges for AI, analytics, and more.
03.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Keeping time on a stream S2 now understands timestamps.
02.07.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Best Laid Plans What we learned from building a database
02.07.2025 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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What’s Driving Fluent Bit Adoption? Fluent Bit has emerged as the go-to telemetry pipeline for cloud native environments. A look at a few key factors driving its popularity.
02.07.2025 02:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the …
01.07.2025 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Building Replication-Safe LSM Trees in Postgres Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
30.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when...
30.06.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Thank you, Databend; Hello, LanceDB Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
29.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Introducing Roast: Structured AI Workflows Made Easy (2025) - Shopify Roast is a convention-oriented workflow orchestration framework designed specifically for creating structured AI workflows that interleave AI prompting with normal non-AI execution. It provides a declarative approach primarily using YAML configuration and markdown prompts, giving AI agents the guardrails they need to solve developer productivity problems at scale.
23.06.2025 06:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0