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.

What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?(maragu.dev)

52 points by markusw 1 year ago | 70 comments

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

640 points by viveknathani_ 9 months ago | 173 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog post reviewing the major trends and happenings in the database industry during 2025.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.

Show HN: How SQL Parsers Work(nishchith.com)

11 points by inishchith 9 months ago | 1 comments

Postgres as a graph database(dylanpaulus.com)

557 points by elorant 3 years ago | 127 comments

Blog post by Dylan Paulus explaining how to model and query graph data structures in PostgreSQL instead of using a dedicated graph database.

TCP, the workhorse of the internet(cefboud.com)

327 points by signa11 11 months ago | 149 comments

A blog post by Moncef Abboud giving a deep dive into how TCP works, with detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough of its internals.

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.

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres(tigerdata.com)

452 points by turtles3 8 months ago | 256 comments

A Tiger Data blog post by Raja Rao DV arguing that teams should use PostgreSQL for most workloads instead of adding specialized databases, especially in the AI era.

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)

363 points by edent 3 years ago | 461 comments

Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres(pierce.dev)

635 points by pavel_lishin 10 months ago | 373 comments

A blog post on pierce.dev arguing that self-hosting PostgreSQL is a reasonable alternative to managed database services.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.