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| | Many software engineers use database indexes every day, but few of us really understand how they work. In this post I'll explain: How indexing works in Postgres using B-Trees What B-Trees are Why they are a good fit for this problem Indexes in Postgres Postgres actually offers 4 different kinds of indexes for different use cases. In this post I'll be focusing on the "normal" index, the kind you get by default when you run create index.
| | ordep.dev
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| | [AI summary] A transcript of a talk comparing log-structured storage engines like LSM-Trees with traditional B-Trees, discussing their architectures, performance trade-offs, and underlying data structures.
| | jameshalsall.github.io
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| | [AI summary] A developer shares a tutorial on emulating hash indexes for MyISAM tables in MySQL using CRC32 functions to improve database query performance.
| | www.dquach.com
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| [AI summary] An analysis of 2025 agentic AI frameworks and deep-configures on Open Table Format wars, AWS SageMaker Unified Studio, and updates to Apache Iceberg, Hudi, Redshift, and Glue for data engineering.