Designing Neki for performance
How Neki only decodes the parts of a PostgreSQL result the router actually needs.
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Handling hot shards
What makes a good sharding strategy today might not work so well tomorrow. What happens when you have one tenant hitting your database orders of magnitude more than any other? Or product managers knocking down your door with new requirements? If you're already on Neki, fortunately these are issues we can solve.
When to choose x86-64 vs aarch64
ARM and x86 can give you different performance at the same vCPU count. Here's what differs, what to measure, and how to choose.
TIN Postgres search is faster, better, and cheaper
A good Postgres search demo was doing the rounds online. Let's see what happens when we upgrade it to TIN.
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How LinkedIn extended ClickHouse from distributed tracing to metric discovery and analytics
LinkedIn expanded its ClickHouse observability stack from distributed tracing to metric discovery and analytics, consolidating 13B+ metrics into one index serving 150k+ queries per minute.
What is direct I/O, and why does ClickHouse Managed Postgres use it for backups?
ClickHouse Managed Postgres uses direct I/O and stripe-sized reads to keep backups fast while protecting the page cache and query latency.
How Jev Uses Meko to Make Code Review Feedback Stick
When a Jev-powered check gets something wrong, and a person corrects it, where does that correction go, and how can you ensure the correction is implemented in future results? This blog explains why a decision model correction should live outside the model, what a system needs to ensure corrections carry into the next request, and the code review check that prevents the system from raising a…
Beyond the return: who controls the business?
A tax return can be correct and still tell the authority too little. The filing identifies the taxpayer but it may not reveal who actually controls the business. Investigations into tax fraud and related financial crime often depend on some… Read more →