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May 08, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

The 5 rules for writing faster SQL queries

If you're building real-time analytics, you need your SQL to be fast. Fast SQL queries improve performance and reduce cost. Here are the 5 rules to follow to write the fastest SQL queries of your life.
Vitess Blog

Backup & Restore Performance

The performance of backups and restores is a business requirement for Vitess users and an ongoing concern for Vitess maintainers. For sufficiently large databases, if we can't take backups fast enough, we risk missing daily SLAs in a production context. In the event we need to perform an emergency restore, it is paramount that we can do so as fast as possible. The performance of backups and restores is driven by a number of factors:

May 07, 2023

Alex Miller

How to Learn: Philosophy of How to Learn

The background and context on why the groupings exist the way they do, and thedifferent sorts of pages you’ll find in this section. But, this is allphilosophical waxing, so quite skippable.

May 06, 2023

May 05, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Low-code analytics with James Devonport of UserLoop

James Devonport chose to build UserLoop on a no-code platform so he could quickly respond to customer feedback. Read how he found and implemented Tinybird on his journey to building the number one eCommerce customer intelligence software.

May 04, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

Why isn’t MySQL using my index?

There are several reasons why MySQL might not consider your index, and in this article we’ll explore some of the most common ones.

May 03, 2023

May 01, 2023