A read-only preset, like block_size — SHOW data_checksums tells you whether the cluster has page checksums, and that’s the only interaction the GUC offers. But unlike block_size, this one has a...

To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven...

The speakers discuss the architectural challenges of executing safe data deletion across distributed datastores. Balancing durability, availability & correctness, they explain how to orchestrate...

AWS disclosed that Resilient Network Graphs, a flat network architecture based on quasi-random graph theory, is now the default for most new data center builds. The design replaces fat-tree...

The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and...

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Monzo recently redesigned its data warehouse to support more than 100 teams working on over 12000 dbt models. Introducing a so-called "meshy" approach, Monzo cut warehouse costs by about 40% and...

Prof. Dan Ghica, who leads the Programming Languages Lab at Huawei’s Edinburgh Research Centre, recently presented Cangjie (CJ), a new application development language that features algebraic data...

Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on the potential role orbital data centers could play in meeting growing AI compute demand—and the technical and economic uncertainties that remain.

Most organizations that build data lakes don't need them.

LinkedIn introduced a unified integrations platform to standardize and reconcile hiring data across systems. The platform reduces onboarding time by 72%, improves data consistency and...

DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than across many files in object storage. The first implementation is available...