Pushing Parquet and ClickHouse to their limits to minimize bytes/row on trillions of GPS pings

Rolling out a bespoke data structure and changing a serialization format allowed us to relieve the pressure on our Memcached cluster.

The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in everything that tech stands for. #tech #softwaredev #coding

The performance of Python 3.14.8 and Python 3.15.0 was compared on computers with the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and the 13th-generation of Intel Core processors for desktops, laptops or mini PCs. Both interpreters were 64-bit Python builds running on Windows…

Picture this scenario: An online retailer runs a flash sale with 500 units of a hot product. Within minutes, they’ve processed 742 orders. Their inventory shows -24…

Learn why Google adopted Meta's open source Pyrefly type checker, reducing Python incremental rebuild latencies by up to 98% in our monorepo.

ZXC is a lossless compression C library for write-once, read-many data. It decodes faster than LZ4 at a smaller size, with seekable archives, dictionaries and SIMD on ARM and x86.

Discover how we modeled our MongoDB infrastructure as a traversable graph and then use pathfinding algorithms to dynamically compute and execute recovery plans. This automated approach reduced pager volume by 30% (~200 pages/year), eliminated 12 days of unhealthy…

High-performance Piecewise Geometric Model (PGM) learned index implementation in pure Rust with strict epsilon error guarantees - gilnett/learned_index_lab

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage.

What is Domain-Driven Design, actually? Some say it's a way to organize your folders, others point to entities and aggregates, and some link it to micro-services. This video follows one online shop from start to finish to show what DDD really is, understanding…