DuckDB Out Of Memory – Has it been fixed?

Back in March, I did a writeup and experiment called DuckDB vs Polars, Thunderdom, 16GB on 4GB machine challenge. The idea was to see if the two tools could process “larger than memory” datasets with lazy execution. Polars worked fine, DuckDB failed in spectacular fashion. I also noted how many people had opened issues in GitHub about this very thing, but...
How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale

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The challenges of rising MTTR — and what to do

Member post by Jake O’Donnell, Logz.io Data volumes are soaring. Environments are increasingly intricate. The risk of applications and systems encountering breakdowns is sky-high, and the mean time to recovery (MTTR) for production incidents is moving in the wrong direction. Disruptions not only jeopardize critical infrastructure but also have a direct impact on the bottom line of organizations. Swift recovery of affected...
The Osborne Effect

Today in 1983, the Osborne Computer Corporation introduced The Osborne Executive portable computer, featuring 128KB RAM, a 7-inch amber monitor, a detachable keyboard, and two 204KB 5.25-inch disk drives. Price: $2,495. Weight: 28lb.The Osborne Executive was the successor to the Osborne 1 which shipped in July 1981, a month before the IBM PC was introduced. 11,000 Osborne 1s were sold...
How We Built Slack AI To Be Secure and Private

At Slack, we’ve long been conservative technologists. In other words, when we invest in leveraging a new category of infrastructure, we do it rigorously. We’ve done this since we debuted machine learning-powered features in 2016, and we’ve developed a robust process and skilled team in the space. Despite that, over the past year we’ve been blown away by the increase in...
Redis re-implemented with SQLite

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