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A Search-and-Inference Database from Scratch in Pure Zig
Antfly recounts rewriting their Go retrieval engine in Zig while still early: first-principles design, caring about the model over embeddings, TigerBeetle-style simulation testing, and what they learned.
12 min · 2,793 words
Introducing chdb Postgres extension: High-performance imports from cloud storage
ClickHouse announces the chdb Postgres extension: fast imports and exports across cloud storage and formats, powered by the embedded ClickHouse engine and usable via COPY-style workflows.
7 min · 1,599 words
Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Edward Ribeiro untangles sharding vs partitioning across vendor docs, textbooks, and distributed-systems papers—showing where the clean split breaks down and how practitioners should talk about both.
19 min · 4,297 words
Learning a few things about running SQLiteOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Practical lessons from operating SQLite behind a Django website. Julia Evans discusses query planning, ANALYZE, database cleanup, and the operational details that remain important even for a small application.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 yearsWhat I learned operating ClickHouse at scale: the wins, the failures, and the lessons that only come from production experience.
Tinybird co-founder Javi Santana shares five years of operational experience running petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters, covering architecture decisions, the challenges of storage-compute separation, zero-copy replication trade-offs, and how the upgrade process evolved from a three-hour ordeal into a CI/CD-integrated routine.
1 min · 280 wordsagent-written
How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrationsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Jimmy Morzaria and Suraj Narkhede describe Stripe's MongoDB-based document infrastructure and its data movement platform. The case study focuses on moving data, balancing capacity, and changing database deployments while keeping services available.
1 min · 81 wordsagent-written
Practical Problems with Auto-IncrementOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Two concrete database behaviors motivate a closer look at auto-incrementing identifiers. Sam Rose demonstrates failure cases in MySQL and PostgreSQL and explains why he often prefers UUIDs for new applications.
1 min · 75 wordsagent-written