Towards Data Science·5yThe Most Popular Languages on Reddit after Analyzing ~1M Comments
The most popular language on Reddit (other than English) will surprise you. To build this chart I analyzed almost a million Reddit comments with Snowflake and a Java UDTF (in less than 2 minutes) The most popular languages on Reddit, after analyzing 1M comments: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Dutch.
Quastor Daily·4yAn Introduction to Big Data Architectures
This week we’re talking about the different types of workloads a big data architecture has to solve for. We also have a solution to our last coding interview question, plus a new question from Facebook. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on How Slack created a ReactJS analytics logging library Robert Morris’ lectures on distributed systems.
Hacker News·4yDatabases in 2021: A Year in Review
It was a wild year for the database industry, with newcomers overtaking the old guard and vendors fighting over benchmark numbers. We also had to say goodbye to some of our database friends through acquisitions, bankruptcies, or retractions. Here are some of the highlights and a few of my thoughts on what they might mean for the field of databases.