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PlanetScale | https://planetscale.com/ | Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres | Remote (AMER, LATAM & EMEA) | Base range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD I'm the hiring manager for thi…

Why not both? There are times when pushing the work down to the database layer is appropriate - databases are quite good at a lot of these operations - but if you need more nuanced…

> I just think we must have completely different working experiences. Likely! I've generally worked in smaller orgs (including as part of a much larger org, as with my current empl…

Agreed, if you have the budget for it. There are often times where living off the land is necessary.

Author here. One of the main things here is that you should know your data well enough to articulate the right request from BI. In my experience, BI often end up as pure order take…

Oh, very cool. I'll have to add this to my list to check out next year.

Pinot is something I haven't had any personal experience with, so that's why it wasn't on the list - same with StarRocks, or Druid. Something for me to look into next year, clearly…

I love Datalog, but its such a niche technology. If I had included it, I would have probably swapped out TigerBeetle for it.

> What people usually do for HA with PostgreSQL or do they just not care about it? Patroni for most cases. At Heroku we have our own control plane to manage HA and fencing which wo…

Apache Cassandra would probably be the most notable one (outside of Kafka etc).

It was not intentional. I've corrected this oversight, and attribution is now provided - my apologies.

I lived through the MongoDB hype cycle. For document databases, I'm more interested in things like PoloDB and SurrealDB.

Still very much "open-source": https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach But relicensed to the "CockroachDB Software License" as a form of BSL to prevent reselling.

Yeah, this is the bit for me. We have almost no good OSS layers for folks to "plug and play". Its a bit of a vicious circle - because there is low exposure, no one is building thos…

Definitely doesn't replace databases, at least LLMs as they currently are. We're going to be stuck with relational algebra for a long time to come, but the interfaces to interact w…

I didn't want ClickHouse to take all the glory. /s The actual reason is that DuckDB's API and integration into other places (e.g. Evidence) and its use of extensions (like the afor…

Author here. Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than Po…

Author here. I deliberately didn't include one because I'm waiting for the dust to settle a bit. There is a lot of activity in the space, from things like TurboPuffer (proprietary)…

Hey, I wrote this! Thanks for all the additional warm feelings about Lua on its 30th birthday year. I have a "second part" in the works on this about implementing something a littl…

Hey, I wrote this! Happy to answer Qs about stuff I've learned for operating and being responsible for ETOOMANY Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra and OpenSearch installs ove…