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| | blog.nuculabs.de
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| | Introduction Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable and distributed NoSQL database that is designed to handle large volumes of data across multiple commodity servers. One of the key features of Cassandra is its ability to automatically manage data distribution, replication, and consistency across a cluster of nodes, providing high availability and fault tolerance. One important aspect of managing data in Cassandra is compaction. Compaction is the process of merging and removing unnecessary data from SSTables, which are the on-disk storage structures used by Cassandra. Over time, as data is written and deleted, SSTables can become fragmented and inefficient, which can impact performance and consume valuable disk space. Compaction helps to optimize the storage ...
| | blog.omega-prime.co.uk
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| | Something I recently became interested in is map data structures for external memory - i.e. ways of storing indexed data that are optimized for storage on disk.
| | henrikwarne.com
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| | What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes. There is...
| | www.rorvswild.com
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| Most of the time, optimizing a Rails application requires repeating the same techniques. For example, at the database layer, it's about creating the proper indexes, preventing 1+N queries, etc. Could we do that automatically?