Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories(drew.silcock.dev)

242 points by drewsberry 1 year ago | 56 comments

Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill(drew.silcock.dev)

362 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post explaining the changes in Python 3.13, focusing on the experimental JIT compiler and the optional removal of the Global Interpreter Lock.

How RocksDB Works(artem.krylysov.com)

235 points by DAlperin 3 years ago | 49 comments

Tuning async IO in PostgreSQL 18(vondra.me)

86 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 16 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers(werwolv.net)

387 points by WerWolv 6 months ago | 46 comments

A blog post introducing USB concepts for software developers and explaining how to write userspace USB drivers, with C++ examples.

Playing with BOLT and Postgres(vondra.me)

153 points by aquastorm 2 years ago | 41 comments

Postgres Language Server(github.com)

899 points by kiwicopple 3 years ago | 112 comments

GitHub repository for Supabase's Postgres Language Server, an LSP implementation that uses the real Postgres parser via libpg_query for IDE features.

PostgreSQL for Everything(raphaelbauer.com)

412 points by karlmush 2 months ago | 238 comments

A blog post by Raphael Bauer arguing for using PostgreSQL as the single backend for many workloads instead of specialized tools.

How Postgres DELETE can actually scale(dbos.dev)

22 points by KraftyOne 11 days ago | 6 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft and Qian Li explaining how to make large-scale DELETE operations in Postgres perform and scale well.

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is(clickhouse.com)

146 points by saisrirampur 14 days ago | 148 comments

ClickHouse blog recap of a POSETTE 2026 talk arguing PostgreSQL performance at scale is limited by storage, with benchmarks and a local-NVMe production architecture.

Tablesample Picks Rows(boringsql.com)

3 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 0 comments

A technical blog post explaining how PostgreSQL's TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM and BERNOULLI methods select rows by hashing physical addresses, and the resulting sampling biases.

PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model(lwn.net)

761 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 338 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet on PostgreSQL developers discussing moving from a process-per-connection model to a threaded architecture.