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adam_oxla

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About adam_oxla

I am software engineer with 15+ years of experience. I was a game developer. Now I am working od databases and distributed computing. I am Oxla founder.

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    Amazing overview. Right now I work on a completely new OLAP database: vectorized query execution is must have nowadays if you want to have competitive performance. What's interesti…

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    Comment #37227199

    I was working in Google in years 2013-2016. It was amazing experience at that time. In no other place I have learned so much on how to run large organizations efficiently: before I…

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    Comment #37210921

    While I do agree that for most of companies those large SaaS solutions are overkill I do not think that DuckDB or similar is sufficient. Nowadays more of the companies really need …

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    Comment #37208175

    It is surprising how popular is using O(N^2) algorithms that are simple in implementation even in extremely popular libraries. E. g. ICU search method: https://github.com/unicode-o…

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    Comment #37108904

    Great article. I was recently wondering why are vector databases useful at all. There are cases (LLMs) where they are useful. But apart from that, most of the cases I have encounte…

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    Comment #37067786

    Amazing article. I have not seen such a comprehensive guide yet. Although when I have seen the title I was expecting it would be focused more on CPU inner workings: superscalar pip…