Different types of NoSQL databases and when to use them
Why NoSQL databases?
The popularity of NoSQL databases over the last decade or so has been driven by an explosion of data. Before what’s commonly...
The CAP Theorem in practice: The consistency vs. availability trade-off in distributed databases
When you choose a database you are making a design decision. One of the best frameworks for understanding what this means in practice is...
MongoDB is partnering with Alibaba
Tensions between the U.S. and China have been frosty at best where trade is concerned. But MongoDB, based partly in Palo Alto in the...
What does a data science team look like?
Until a couple of years ago, people barely knew the term 'data science' which has now evolved into an extremely popular career field. The...
PostgreSQL committer Stephen Frost shares his vision for PostgreSQL version 12 and beyond
PostgreSQL version 12 was released in October this year and has earned a strong reputation for being reliable, feature robust, and performant. During the...
MongoDB’s CTO Eliot Horowitz on what’s new in MongoDB 4.2, Ops Manager, Atlas, and...
At MongoDB.local London event that happened in September this year, Eliot Horowitz, the CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB took to the stage to talk...
Thomas Munro from EnterpriseDB on parallelism in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system. Since its introduction, it has been well-received by developers for its reliability, feature robustness, data-integrity, better...
Hans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL: Sophisticating temporary tables from Planet PostgreSQL
Temporary tables have been around forever and are widely used by application developers. However, there is more to temporary tables than meets the eye....
Scott Mead: Tracking Postgres Stats from Planet PostgreSQL
Database applications are living, breathing systems that behave in unexpected ways. As a purveyor of the pgCraft, it’s important to understand how to...
Alexey Lesovsky: Postgres 13 Observability Updates from Planet PostgreSQL
New shiny Postgres 13 has been released and now it’s the time for making some updates to “Postgres Observability” diagram.
New release includes many improvements...
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Top life hacks for prepping for your IT certification exam
I remember deciding to pursue my first IT certification, the CompTIA A+. I had signed up for a class that lasted one week, per...
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Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman
Key takeaways
The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN and CNN models in use today.
Artificial intelligence is...
