If postgres can implement semi-sync replication and the multigres project can be pulled off, postgres will finally be a viable choice for large OLTP databases, along side MySQL (+ Vitess). Exciting times, with supabase attempting what AWS failed to deliver supabase.com/blog/multigres…
Reflecting on @pocket shutdown announcement yesterday, I’ve been working on the save-for-later space for 12 years and have a ton of thoughts.
Longish thread below (save it to Instapaper 😉)
TIL:
One reason Postgres is process based and not threads is that it was written a decade before POSIX standardized threads.
C didn’t standardize threads.h until 2011
And Win32 is still different
💡 Postgres tip: Use partial indexes for columns with null values.
When building indexes for columns that have frequently queried data and a good portion of null values, make sure you skip the nulls when you create the index by adding a WHERE clause.
CREATE INDEX…
Engineers shouldn’t have to define their network APIs in OpenAPI or Protobuf, their streaming data types in Avro, and their data lake schemas in SQL. A unified schema approach dramatically reshapes our world, solving data quality problems at the source.
buf.build/blog/kafka-sch…
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