Slav S.·1d agoHinted Handoff: How Distributed Databases Recover from Temporary Node FailuresIn distributed systems, failures are inevitable. Nodes become unavailable, networks experience interruptions, and individual servers…
InTowards Data EngineeringbyYeedu·Sep 18ClickHouse’s ‘Too Many Parts’ Wall: Why Streaming Small Inserts Breaks a Batch-Oriented Merge…ClickHouse throws DB::Exception: Too many parts (600). Merges are processing significantly slower than inserts. when the background merge…A response icon1
Aleksander Frolov·Sep 11I got laughed at for my answer about VIEWs. So I benchmarked MySQL 8.4 and PostgreSQL 17At one interview I was asked about VIEWs. I answered honestly: in real projects I had barely run into them; for aggregates it is safer to…
Prateek Singh·Aug 21Top 10 Databases You Need to Use in 2026If you’d asked a developer five years ago what database to use, the answer was pretty simple: Postgres or MySQL for most things, maybe…
Milad Fahmy·Jun 27Bloom Filters: The Tiny Data Structure That Stops Useless Database HitsA visual explanation of how Bloom Filters work, why false positives happen, and how they help protect caches and databases at scale.
