What's not working for you about the sharded model? The sharded mature of it is key to scaling the thing without taking on VC funding or an advertising supported business model
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Decentralized Social Networks: Finding Trustworthy Admin Teams
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Joining one, provided you can find one with an admin team that you trust. Plus you can move servers later and still keep your followers.
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Nx Seed Funding Monorepo Space Growth
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and congrats to the Nx team on their seed!!! Monorepo space continues to catch fire
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SingleStore ETL Engine Architecture Misconceptions Clarified
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the mention of the ETL engine/pipelines throws me off. i think many folks believe that is literally how SingleStore works (run two databases side by side, like Azure Cosmos DB) https://
x.com/CSotoX/status/
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SingleStore HTAP Architecture: Transactional Database with Column Store
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Yea i think i read this last time we crossed paths! I think this also was a good list of SingleStore features from a "build from scratch" angle which I love, but still lacks real numbers/examples. like is the secret to HTAP really "build a transactional DB with a column store?
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Modern Database Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know
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the @SingleStoreDB folks are very patiently schooling me on what goes into a modern db. they are great if you want a high level map to "know what you don't know". from @DomenicRavita
: https://
singlestore.com/blog/the-recip
e-for-a-singlestore-database/
… from @carlsverre
: https://
singlestore.com/blog/engineers
-guide-building-database-for-data-intensive-applications/
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Snowpark as ORM for Data Pipelines: Abstraction Tradeoffs
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right. but ORMs still useful until you get to the scale where the perf matters, and then you can drop down a lvl of abstraction? now that i'm in the data pipelines world, you've suddenly got me thinking if Snowflake's Snowpark is an ORM… https://
docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-g
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ORM Impedance Mismatch: Beyond Standard Database Challenges
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"what ORM inflicts on them" is this referencing standard impedance mismatch or is there a bigger pain that i'm unaware of?
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More Things Are Databases Than You Think
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Lots more things Are Database than you think – Git
– Datadog: 800 db's in a UI trenchcoat
– Temporal: basically Stored Procedures
– Notion: vaguely remember @sliminality
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Signs You’ve Accidentally Built A Database
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I have a draft titled "Signs You Have Accidentally Built A Database" which outlines the many many many things app developers end up doing when they Don't Know Database and end up compensating for it with poor UX, bug reports, downright ugly and untested app code