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Data / Databases / Infrastructure

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations (hakibenita.com)
61 pts 7 comments by Haki Jan 20, 2026 databasesperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite (sqlite.org)
70 pts 26 comments by pscanf Jan 20, 2026 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure
How did I improve the performance of WAT parser? (blog.gplane.win)
6 pts 0 comments by fanf Jan 20, 2026 performancerustwasm Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure
What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (blog.cloudflare.com)
20 pts 0 comments by lalitm Jan 20, 2026 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure
High Cardinality Metrics: How Prometheus and ClickHouse Handle Scale (last9.io)
3 pts 3 comments by prathamesh Jan 20, 2026 devops Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast (research.swtch.com)
70 pts 7 comments by rsc Jan 19, 2026 gomathperformance Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureScience / Math / Physics
bc_crunch: tiny lossless compressor for BC/DXT texture streams (github.com)
8 pts 2 comments by yoshi Jan 19, 2026 graphicsperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Balanced allocation: considerations from large scale service environments (arxiv.org)
2 pts 0 comments by asb Jan 19, 2026 distributedpdfperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure
AVX-512: First impressions on performance and programmability (shihab-shahriar.github.io)
16 pts 3 comments by jmillikin Jan 19, 2026 performance Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Debian Taco - Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian (blog.josefsson.org)
5 pts 1 comments by FedericoSchonborn Jan 19, 2026 devopslinux Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure
Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm (clan.lol)
18 pts 2 comments by diktomat Jan 18, 2026 devopsnix Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure
A Social Filesystem (overreacted.io)
65 pts 21 comments by icy Jan 18, 2026 distributedprogrammingweb Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure
“You Had One Job”: Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it (honeycomb.io)
3 pts 10 comments by wrs Jan 17, 2026 aidevopspractices AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business
How ClickHouse handles strings (rushter.com)
16 pts 3 comments by typesanitizer Jan 17, 2026 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
6 pts 0 comments by parisosuch Jan 16, 2026 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure
6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
46 pts 9 comments by fanf Jan 16, 2026 networkingsecurity Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy
PostgreSQL in Gleam with pog, squirrel, and cigogne (nulltree.xyz)
7 pts 0 comments by krig Jan 16, 2026 databasesgleam Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure
Quint Visualizer: a GraphViz-like visualizer for Quint traces (quint-visualizer.noghartt.dev)
4 pts 0 comments by Noghartt Jan 16, 2026 distributedformalmethodsshow Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureDesign / UX / Visualization
Profile a Parser Implementation in Rust (blog.wybxc.cc)
7 pts 0 comments by dryya Jan 15, 2026 performancerust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure
The Design & Implementation of Sprites (fly.io)
5 pts 0 comments by typesanitizer Jan 15, 2026 distributed Data / Databases / InfrastructureDesign / UX / Visualization
Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler (adamj.eu)
3 pts 0 comments by andrewguenther Jan 15, 2026 performancepython Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure
New Social Web Working Group at W3C (socialwebfoundation.org)
14 pts 4 comments by strugee Jan 15, 2026 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure
MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes (binaryigor.com)
20 pts 11 comments by BinaryIgor Jan 15, 2026 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure
I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck (modulovalue.com)
24 pts 5 comments by lonami Jan 14, 2026 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)
24 pts 25 comments by soulcutter Jan 14, 2026 databases Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure
How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap (questdb.com)
40 pts 12 comments by lalitm Jan 14, 2026 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Small Kafka: Tansu + SQLite on a free t3.micro (AWS Free Tier) (blog.tansu.io)
9 pts 2 comments by topicpartition Jan 13, 2026 distributedrust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure
Server-First Web Component Architecture: SXO + Reactive Component (dev.to)
3 pts 2 comments by gcv Jan 13, 2026 javascriptperformance Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure
Docker Made Easy — Learn Docker Internals (learn-how-docker-works.vercel.app)
-1 pts 0 comments by mraza007 Jan 13, 2026 showvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure
Rethinking Geolocation on the Internet (pulse.internetsociety.org)
1 pts 3 comments by pschmitt Jan 13, 2026 networking Data / Databases / InfrastructureInternet / Digital Culture