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September 04, 2020

Tinybird Engineering Blog

About CLI best practices, the advantages of being a generalist nowadays, and the trust behind an Open Source culture - What our team is reading

If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scientists in all of history uncover this.

September 03, 2020

Supabase Blog

Supabase Alpha August 2020

Six months of building

September 01, 2020

PlanetScale Blog

On joining PlanetScale and the vision of open source database infrastructure

Why I joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB and what I perceive Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem.

August 28, 2020

PlanetScale Blog

Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 1 - Introduction

This is a multi-part blog series and will be updated with links to the corresponding posts.

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Write-ahead logs, recommender systems and a clean start for the web - What our team is reading

At base, the idea was to keep each record in the database in a linked list of versions stamped with transaction IDs — in some sense, this is 'the log as data' or 'the data as a log', depending on your point of view.

August 27, 2020

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Selective data deletion: a new feature for data quality management

Selective data deletion lets you delete rows of a Tinybird datasource that match a specified delete condition. This is important for an API-first platform.

August 26, 2020

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Operational Analytics. Data Insights Are Great

Traditional data warehouses are well suited for putting data together and enabling BI teams to do data exploration and analysis, but they are not a great sol...

August 19, 2020

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Improving the data ingestion experience: better error feedback

Identifying errors when ingesting Terabytes of data can be like finding a needle in a haystack. We have improved our ingestion process to make it easier to troubleshoot ingestion problems, even if you are ingesting billions of rows.