Data Engineering - Banandre

When NoSQL Actually Wins: The Real Trade-offs Between MongoDB and Postgres in Production

A pragmatic deep dive into when document databases genuinely beat relational databases in mature production systems, beyond the hype and marketing spin.

#jsonb#mongodb#nosql...

apache iceberg

Apache Iceberg v4: The Dev Mailing List Reveals the Real Story Behind the Hype

Forget the conference keynotes. The Iceberg v4 dev list shows what’s actually settled, what’s still contested, and why the slowness is a feature, not a bug.

#apache iceberg#Data Engineering#open table formats...

cdc

Why Your DynamoDB BI Pipeline Will Crash (And How to Fix It)

A practical guide to building real-time analytics from DynamoDB using CDC, streaming to Redshift, and dbt transformations

#cdc#dbt#dynamodb...

airflow

The Post-Acquisition Shuffle: What Lean Data Teams Should Actually Do About Orchestration

Prefect just bought Dagster. Your orchestration roadmap just got rewritten. Here’s what Airflow, Kestra, Mage, and the alternatives actually deliver for small teams.

#airflow#dagster#Data Orchestration...

Data Engineering

The Medallion Architecture Civil War: Silver vs. Gold for Fact and Dimension Tables

A Reddit debate exposes the dirty secret of medallion architecture: nobody agrees where fact and dimension tables actually belong. Here’s what the BigBasket case study reveals.

#Data Engineering#Data Modeling#dimension tables...

Apache Ossie

Snowflake Gave Up Control: Why Apache Ossie Is the Semantic Standard We Actually Needed

The Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) has moved from Snowflake to the ASF as Apache Ossie. This isn’t just a rebrand, it’s the structural fix that makes a semantic standard actually trustworthy.

#Apache Ossie#Data Engineering#data governance...

Google Research

Google’s TabFM Just Made XGBoost Feel Like a Horse-Drawn Carriage

Google Research’s TabFM brings zero-shot in-context learning to tabular data, eliminating hyperparameter tuning and feature engineering. Here’s how it works and why it matters.

#Google Research#in-context learning#TabFM...

geospatial

Stop Calculating Distances Wrong: The Architecture of Real-Time Proximity Discovery

Why your naive Haversine loop will kill your app at scale, and how Uber, Redis, and PostGIS actually solve proximity-based user discovery.

#geospatial#real-time#Scalability...

data-stack

PostgreSQL as Your Entire Data Stack: The Multi-Tool Orthodoxy Is Crumbling

One database to rule them all? A deep dive into pushing PostgreSQL to serve as a full data-centric stack, challenging the multi-tool orthodoxy with real benchmarks and production-ready code.

#data-stack#OLAP#oltp...

database performance

30 Indexes on One Table? You’re Not Scaling, You’re Bleeding

How to diagnose index maintenance blocking, safely remove dead indexes, and whether you should ditch RDBMS for a key-value store.

#database performance#indexing#RDBMS...

database history

The Database Gods You’ve Never Heard Of: Why Patricia Selinger Matters More Than Codd

How forgotten pioneers like Patricia Selinger and Raymond Boyce built the relational foundation you take for granted, and why erasing their legacy is hurting modern system design.

#database history#Patricia Selinger#relational model...

backend architecture

Orders API

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#backend architecture#CRUD generation#database design...

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When NoSQL Actually Wins: The Real Trade-offs Between MongoDB and Postgres in Production

Apache Iceberg v4: The Dev Mailing List Reveals the Real Story Behind the Hype

Why Your DynamoDB BI Pipeline Will Crash (And How to Fix It)

The Post-Acquisition Shuffle: What Lean Data Teams Should Actually Do About Orchestration

The Medallion Architecture Civil War: Silver vs. Gold for Fact and Dimension Tables

Snowflake Gave Up Control: Why Apache Ossie Is the Semantic Standard We Actually Needed

Google’s TabFM Just Made XGBoost Feel Like a Horse-Drawn Carriage

Stop Calculating Distances Wrong: The Architecture of Real-Time Proximity Discovery

PostgreSQL as Your Entire Data Stack: The Multi-Tool Orthodoxy Is Crumbling

30 Indexes on One Table? You’re Not Scaling, You’re Bleeding

The Database Gods You’ve Never Heard Of: Why Patricia Selinger Matters More Than Codd

Orders API

When NoSQL Actually Wins: The Real Trade-offs Between MongoDB and Postgres in Production

Apache Iceberg v4: The Dev Mailing List Reveals the Real Story Behind the Hype

Why Your DynamoDB BI Pipeline Will Crash (And How to Fix It)

The Post-Acquisition Shuffle: What Lean Data Teams Should Actually Do About Orchestration

The Medallion Architecture Civil War: Silver vs. Gold for Fact and Dimension Tables

Snowflake Gave Up Control: Why Apache Ossie Is the Semantic Standard We Actually Needed

Google’s TabFM Just Made XGBoost Feel Like a Horse-Drawn Carriage

Stop Calculating Distances Wrong: The Architecture of Real-Time Proximity Discovery

PostgreSQL as Your Entire Data Stack: The Multi-Tool Orthodoxy Is Crumbling

30 Indexes on One Table? You’re Not Scaling, You’re Bleeding

The Database Gods You’ve Never Heard Of: Why Patricia Selinger Matters More Than Codd

Orders API