Best of Storage — May 2022

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   Quastor Daily·4y

   How to Design Better APIs

   Ronald Blüthl wrote a great blog post on how to design better REST APIs with 15 language-agnostic tips. We’ll go through a couple here Use ISO 8601 UTC dates Version the API Pagination Provide a health check endpointPlus some tech snippets on How Netflix tests for performance regressions.

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   Quastor Daily·4y

   The Architecture of Databases

   Quastor is a free Software Engineering newsletter that sends out summaries of technical blog posts, deep dives on interesting tech and FAANG interview questions and solutions. Today we’ll be talking about the Architecture of Databases. The various components: Transport System, Query Processor, Execution Engine, and the Storage Engine. How these components interact with each other.

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   Hacker News·4y

   Neon — Serverless, Fault-Tolerant, Branchable Postgres

   Compute is fully client-compatible with Postgres because it is Postgres! Neon adjusts the amount of resources dedicated to the compute. Compute activates on an incoming connection and shuts down to save resources on inactivity. On Demand Scalability. We separated storage and compute to make on demand scalability possible.

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   Cloudflare·4y

   Announcing D1: our first SQL database

   Cloudflare is excited to announce D1, our first ever serverless database. D1 is designed for Cloudflare Workers, and will be available in beta as early as June. We’ll talk about the capabilities, and upcoming features further down in the post.

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