Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)(raphkoster.com)

272 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 111 comments

Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34(jepsen.io)

321 points by aphyr 2 years ago | 119 comments

Jepsen analysis by Peter Alvaro and Kyle Kingsbury showing MySQL 8.0.34 Repeatable Read violates internal consistency and AWS RDS MySQL clusters violate Serializability.

Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon(tratt.net)

71 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 23 comments

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512(lemire.me)

110 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 87 comments

ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (1955)(xav.io)

111 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 27 comments

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.