Awesome interactive visualization from PlannetScale on how B-Tree Indexes actually work planetscale.com/blog/btrees-an…

I wrote another post in the "Kafka naming" series to discuss best practices for naming producers and consumers—two critical pieces of the Kafka puzzle. javierholguera.com/2024/09/12/nam… #Kafka #DataStreaming #Architecture #EventDriven

Google’s approach to: Measuring Developer Goals tldr: Focusing on developer goals (rather than tasks) offers deeper insights into how developers use tools and navigate their workflows. ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.js…

em-tg.github.io/csborrow/ great article on ref lifetime analysis in C# and how it compares to Rust. I have no idea who the author is but huge props to them for covering this!

In case you missed my three-part Ports and Adapters (#Hexagonal #HexagonalArchitecture) tutorials, here are the links: Part 1: youtu.be/TC4e0hokDB8 Part 2: youtu.be/V4nj8MXUv5k Part 3: youtu.be/UpesTQhQhTE

Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager blog.alexewerlof.com/p/staff-engine…

On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings berthub.eu/articles/posts…

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20…

"Things we learned about LLMs in 2024" A great distilation of key themes and pivotal moments from the last 12 months in LLMs buff.ly/3BQGkKW

I really like reading this article medium.com/coreteq/direct… 🙌

So, what does the Vercel x Nuxt partnership unlock for the community? A LOT. Get ready for an insane amount of previously "Pro" features, now open-source and free for everyone: 🎁 100+ Nuxt UI Pro components & an extremely comprehensive Figma Kit 🎁 7+ Pro templates (SaaS,

Free performance for full table scans in Postgres 17 You see, Postgres like most databases work with fixed size pages. Pretty much everything is in this format, indexes, table data, etc. Those pages are 8K in size, each page will have the rows, or index tuples and a fixed

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Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. When high-level languages replaced assembly, programmers didn't write less code - they wrote orders of magnitude more, tackling problems that would have been economically

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Here is my latest article on the world of databases: cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20… All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the world!

Did you know that SSDs use quantum tunnelling to store data? Or that we have to completely rewrite RAM every 30ms to prevent data from just dissipating? If you did, then you can probably skip this chapter on how computers store data: makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-i…

Discovered an awesome article (and the entire site) via HN. Example: "How is data stored?" makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-i…

Another fantastic guide from Anthropic👇 🌟The Complete Guide to Building Claude Skills🌟 • How to structure your skill folder correctly • What makes a skill trigger reliably (and what breaks it) • How to write clear, effective SKILL.md instructions • How to

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