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Theory Meets Practice

Theory Meets Practice

Oct 08, 20241 min read

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A list of articles and papers where research and reality meet. Reading about how great something is, is not the same as actually using and operating that thing. Real world experiences are often hard to find, so we collect them here.

  • Netflix is a strong Cassandra and Cockroach shop
  • Databricks uses a bunch of MySQL/RDS and shuffling towards TiDB
  • How discord indexes billions of messages

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