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The promises and realities of the relational database model
Engineering

The promises and realities of the relational database model

The relational model is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science but it has some drawbacks that need to be addressed.

Shlomi Noach
Pitfalls of isolation levels in distributed databases
Engineering

Pitfalls of isolation levels in distributed databases

The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system the better it scales

Sugu Sougoumarane
MySQL semi-sync replication: durability consistency and split brains
Engineering

MySQL semi-sync replication: durability consistency and split brains

We look at some basics and follow up to present scenarios that require higher level intervention to ensure availability and to avoid split brains from taking place.

Shlomi Noach
Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database
Engineering

Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Jiten Vaidya