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Databases

Database March 5, 2015
Store User Data as a Photo and Upload It to Google Photos: Unlimited Storage, Zero Accountability
Google Photos offers free unlimited storage for photos. A PNG is just bytes. Your database is just bytes. I think you see where this is going.
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Database February 22, 2015
VimDB: The Database You Exit When You're Done Querying
All operations are modal. Reads happen in NORMAL mode. Writes happen in INSERT mode. Deletes happen when you press dd on the wrong line.
10 min
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Architecture February 5, 2015
Mobile Device Distributed Database: Your Users' Phones Are Your Server Farm
Why pay for AWS when your app has 50,000 active installs? That's 50,000 nodes in a distributed database cluster. They just don't know it yet.
10 min
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Database December 18, 2014
RegexDB: When Your Database Is Also a Parser
Why maintain a schema when a sufficiently creative regular expression can store and retrieve any data structure?
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Database December 1, 2014
FloatDB: The Database Where Every Value Is a Float and Nothing Hurts
Schema design is a form of anxiety. FloatDB is the cure.
12 min
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