MongoBleed Explained Simply(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)

235 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 105 comments

Why was Apache Kafka created?(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)

181 points by enether 1 year ago | 173 comments

Behind AWS S3's Scale(highscalability.com)

12 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 5 comments

DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB(mehdio.substack.com)

191 points by xkgt 1 year ago | 21 comments

Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025(chrisebert.net)

111 points by hasanhaja 10 months ago | 51 comments

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots(xata.io)

142 points by tudorg 1 year ago | 39 comments

How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket(tracebit.com)

546 points by tracebit 2 years ago | 199 comments

Tracebit blog post by Sam Cox describing a technique to find the AWS account ID owning any S3 bucket, public or private.

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran(wsj.com)

497 points by berkeleyjunk 1 month ago | 415 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)

56 points by tkhattra 1 month ago | 61 comments

Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.

AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy(phoronix.com)

357 points by crcastle 6 months ago | 109 comments

Phoronix news article reporting an AWS engineer's finding that Linux 7.0 roughly halves PostgreSQL throughput, with a revert unlikely and PostgreSQL possibly needing changes.

Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)(aws.amazon.com)

500 points by Sirupsen 1 year ago | 146 comments

AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.