After 8 years of working on high-volume web sites, I’ve seen a lot of interesting scaling techniques. While it’s true that very specific…

Contribute to the-little-redis-book development by creating an account on GitHub.

Basic proficiency with PostgreSQL is one of the highest-leverage skills an engineer can have. Even a cursory understanding of its internals…

It is my absolute pleasure to present you with this guest post by Brandur Leach, redis-cell‘s author and winner of the 1st place in the Redis Modules Hackathon. The module is an efficient implementation of a rate limiter that can be used, for example, to…

A list of back-end related questions you can be inspired from to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore - arialdomartini/Back-End-Developer-Interview-Questions

For many years MySQL and PostgreSQL were competing databases, which addressed slightly different audiences. Here's why you always should go for PostgreSQL!

Five years ago I wrote a post that got some good attention on why you should use Postgres. Almost a year later I added a bunch of things I missed. Many of those items bear repeating, and I’ll recap a few of those in the latter half of this post. But in the…

Your database knows which queries are running. It also has a pretty good idea of which indexes are best for a given query. And since…

Before you rage quit or call in your DBA, check these things aren't slowing down your query

China’s Huawei is making a serious foray into the enterprise business market after it unveiled a new database management product on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with entrenched vendors like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The Shenzhen-based company…