Tag: Database

As many of you may know, over the past 4 years I have been meticulously building The Sneaker Database. As of March, I decided to sell The Sneaker Database to Arbit. Not to worry. The same great data and insights will still be available just under a new name. While a separate article explaining ...

The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database is a set of 30-minute heart rhythm recordings (AKA “electrocardiograms” or “ECGs”) from 47 patients from 1975 to 1979. The data is from a range of healthy to heart-diseased patients and is useful for practicing analyses of t...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, staying one step ahead is crucial to ensure your business’s success in the long run. And when it comes to optimizing database performance, being ahead of the game becomes even more important. That’s where Vitess comes into play — a powe...

Recently, I started a new job as a mobile developer. My first assignment: write unit tests for an application that leveraged Paging Library. If you’re unfamiliar with this powerful tool, you can delve deeper into its info here: Paging Library Overview. To give you a quick snapshot, the...

When building a service with microservices, each microservice performs a specific task and can be independently deployed and scaled. This means that a service can be composed of many microservices, each with a short runtime, rather than a monolithic application that performs all tasks in a single pr...

√ What exactly is WordPress? WordPress, at its core, is the easiest and most popular way to create your own website or blog. WordPress, in fact, powers more than 1 in 4 websites on the Internet. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system. A content management system (CMS)...

As a backend developer, efficiency and simplicity are paramount when it comes to managing databases and infrastructure. MongoDB, a NoSQL database known for its flexibility, and Docker, a containerization platform, have become my dynamic duo for database management. In this article, I&rsquo...

In my research to understand how a simple SQL query sent from the app end up in the disk I learned that the term page and block is perhaps the most overloaded concepts in software engineering. There is a database page, an operating system virtual memory page, a file system block,...

Search is the base of many applications. Once data starts to pile up, users want to be able to find it. It’s the foundation of the internet and an ever-growing challenge that is never solved or done. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is rapidly evolving with a number of new dev...