This blog post is intended to be an extremely simple and brief introduction to two concepts which I admittedly took longer than I would have wanted to understand. The two concepts are separation of...

In the past few years, I've heard a lot about Avro, Parquet, ORC, Arrow and Feather, but I also keep hearing about Iceberg and Delta Lake. As a "database person", I’ve been struggling to understand...

SingleStoreDB, where I’ve worked for the last 7+ years, has just publicly announced crossing the $100M Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) milestone: This is a big deal for the business, and I’m obviously...

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A couple of weeks ago, I was in an internal meeting where our CTO (Adam Prout) was giving a talk to our summer interns. The talk was about the current state of database companies, and how different...

I try to read around one book per month. In this post, I leave you with some notes, not so much a review, about each of the 12 books I’ve read in 2023. Oh, and I’ve arranged the books roughly by the...

My big fitness goal for 2023 was to do something that a few years ago would be completely unthinkable for me — to run a sub-3 hour marathon. To set some context, I only started running in early 2020...

In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the features and capabilities we shipped in SingleStoreDB Cloud in 2023 — and how our cloud service matured to provide a better developer experience to...

Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.

In this post, you'll learn how we built an app in SingleStore with the serverless backend technology, Cloudflare Workers.

This blog post delves into the meticulous process of analyzing and optimizing the bundle size of our new authentication pages built with React and TypeScript, and exploring various techniques that...

A plethora of outstanding literature exists with the goal of helping software engineers make a greater impact and grow in their careers. Just a few examples include: * Staff Engineer by Will Larson *...

Today, we’re proud to announce we’re bringing SingleStore to everyone, everywhere with our new Free Shared Tier — democratizing access to this powerful engine for all your real-time AI applications...

SingleStore Studio 1.8.1 is the free-to-use visual tool for managing and monitoring SingleStore clusters. Features include a SQL editor, resource usage profiler, and schema explorer, plus Visual...

tl;dr: I will show you how I ran some simple analytics on my Google Calendar history over almost 7 years. I used SingleStoreDB for this, but it should be straightforward to do this with any database....

We're walking you through using GitLab Code Review and GitLab CI together to iterate on SingleStoreDB Cloud with the rebase workflow.

Before I was actually getting paid to write code, I got extremely accustomed to picking up new frameworks and libraries very quickly. I'd bootstrap a new web application in Rails in one week, but...

Each month, Shireesh Thota, SVP of Engineering at SingleStore, hosts a deep-dive discussion with engineering leaders about database internals and the art & p...

We’re all about delivering seamless user experiences in our real-time database — and naturally, that’s something we wanted to extend to our Cloud Portal UI. Here’s what we did to accelerate its...

Toward more efficient and inclusive work with asynchronous communication

For the last few years, as our team grew, one of the biggest challenges we've had to solve was how to onboard new engineers onto the team. A big part of onboarding new folks is finding easy tasks for...

SingleStore: The Single Database for All Data-Intensive Applications

This is the fifth blog post of a series titled Hiring for Engineering Managers. I plan to write a few posts on this topic since I'm incredibly passionate about how to hire for, and grow software...

Disclaimer: this article assumes intermediate knowledge of both TypeScript and React. Concepts you should be familiar with include Higher Order Components [https://reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-com...

Learn how using a SingleStore database can improve performance with comprehensive guides, case studies, eBooks, industry reports, research papers, videos, webinars, whitepapers and more.

I wrote some code over 2 years ago that couldn't be properly typed with either Flow [https://flow.org/] or TypeScript [https://www.typescriptlang.org/], but with the introduction of Variadic Tuple...

I recently led a project to build a Vercel Integration for SingleStoreDB Cloud. Throughout the process, I met a few different folks at Vercel, and had a really fun time with actually implementing the...

Product-led growth (PLG) has been gaining momentum in developer tooling in recent years (it was already popular for consumer-facing products before). The idea behind PLG is simple: instead of relying...

This is the third blog post of a series titled Hiring for Engineering Managers. I plan to write a few posts on this topic since I'm incredibly passionate about how to hire for, and grow software...

We've all heard that one cannot improve what they can't measure. And this is obviously true about flaky tests in our CI/CD pipelines. At work (SingleStoreDB), we've been struggling with this for...

In the summer of 2015, I interned as a software engineer at a startup based in Portugal called Unbabel. The internship was only two months long, but it was an amazing opportunity which definitely put...

We’re thrilled to announce that a SingleStoreDB Cloud integration is now available on the Vercel marketplace — making it easier than ever for Vercel users to connect their applications to SingleSto...

See Schedule For Session Times & Live Stream Links: https://wasmcon2023.sched.com/

SingleStore Kai™ is an API that allows customers to interact with SingleStore using the MongoDB® query language, as well as its ecosystem's drivers and tools. Here’s how we built a shell-like IT that...

I have been working at a database company for over seven years and I must admit I haven't quite figured out isolation levels yet. But I was in a meeting recently where we were discussing materialized...

This is the fourth blog post of a series titled Hiring for Engineering Managers. I plan to write a few posts on this topic since I'm incredibly passionate about how to hire for, and grow software...

Find the latest React.js talks & workshops at https://portal.gitnation.org   🗓 Talk recording from React Advanced 2019 Conference  Check out the latest Reac...

In this talk, we explore Bucklescript's Interop System. While the Bucklescript documentation describes the various operators and some of the design deci…

Disclaimer: this blog post is primarily aimed for startup or "scale-up" employees of Business-to-Business (B2B) software companies (i.e., companies that build software products and then sell those to...

Table of Contents * What's not discussed here? * The 8 Pillars of Database DX (in no particular order) * #1 Observability * #2 Deployment * #3 Configurability of Tradeoffs * #4 Predictable Pricing *...

I recently wrote a blog post titled “A Simple System for Measuring Flaky Tests in a Large CI/CD Pipeline”. We have implemented this system at work and it has been working wonderfully for us. After...

Oven is on a mission to make JavaScript faster and simpler. That’s why we launched Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, and package manager. We’re looking for people to help us build...

In this post, discover the reasons the Engineering Team at SingleStore decided to use Next.js to develop its web app as well as some of the challenges it faced in doing so.

In the past few weeks, we saw a few key announcements that point to a new trend in the data infrastructure ecosystem: * Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML *...

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Andy Pavlo (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/)Slides: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2024/slides/04-execution1.pdfNotes: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.ed...

Learn about the high availability features of SingleStoreDB Cloud, what it means and how it protects your application — and see a demo of it in action.

tl;dr: we’ve created new SQL commands ( SHOW PROFILE UI, EXPLAIN UI and SHOW PLAN UI) that allow developers to more easily visualize their SingleStoreDB query plans. It’s the little things! I...

Overview of the main idea (3 sentences)

Lately, I've been thinking about how one can decide whether to annotate or let TypeScript infer the types of variables/expressions whenever it can. If you don't know what Type Inference is, refer to...