Implementing and Improving Skiplists(mattjhall.co.uk)

22 points by tosh 2 years ago | 5 comments

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB(matthew.science)

603 points by sodality2 2 years ago | 198 comments

Blog post describing how the author built a campus occupancy sensor using a $5 ESP32 counting Bluetooth devices and a serverless database.

How the tz database works (2020)(yatsushi.com)

63 points by jumbosushi 1 year ago | 11 comments

Database Fundamentals(tontinton.com)

645 points by tontinton 2 years ago | 118 comments

Blog post summarizing core database engineering concepts drawn from Database Internals and Designing Data-Intensive Applications, written by the author of the dbeel database.

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin(mattjhall.co.uk)

47 points by mattjhall 3 months ago | 6 comments

Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem(adamobeng.com)

251 points by vitplister 2 years ago | 35 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.

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.

Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies(build-your-own.org)

386 points by not_a_boat 1 year ago | 48 comments

Blog post from build-your-own.org arguing complex software like databases can be learned by building a small version, introducing a 3000-line, zero-dependency database.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

Programming with Less Than Nothing(joshmoody.org)

407 points by signa11 1 year ago | 138 comments

A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.