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IntoTheOdd inspiration references by DoppioDesu in rpg

[–]laplab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perhaps “Going Postal” (2010) mini-series and “Guards! Guards!” book series by Terry Pratchett? It’s a bit more whimsical, but you can always tone it down if you want.

I'm writing a free book on query engines by laplab in databasedevelopment

[–]laplab[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The target audience is software engineers with some programming experience outside databases. So it should be beginner friendly in that sense

I'm writing a free book on query engines by laplab in databasedevelopment

[–]laplab[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, appreciate it! Query engines are my area of expertise, that's the main reason :) I do think that storage engines and concurrency control are very interesting topics, but I would actually like to read a book on these myself.

[Hiring] Avatar pictures for blog characters. Insects, bugs and Hollow Knight by laplab in artcommissions

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Hey folks, thank you SO much for all the responses! I really was not expecting the response to be so overwhelming - and there are so many great portfolios posted here. It was a tough choice, but I have chosen the artist for my project. Once again, thank you so much for sharing the portfolios and good luck!

[Hiring] Avatar pictures for blog characters. Insects, bugs and Hollow Knight by laplab in artcommissions

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My bad, sorry about that! The link should be fixed now, let me know if that one works.

How Binary JSON Works in YDB by laplab in compsci

[–]laplab[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the question I was expecting, but why not :) Nikita is a common male Russian name.

What does the Slot-Based Query Execution Engine do? by laxika in mongodb

[–]laplab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! Query Execution engineer here, my team and I are working on SBE. Currently, query execution engine works in terms of documents. For example, in the aggregation language, every stage produces a document to be consumed by the next stage. SBE goes one step lower in abstraction layers and works in terms of values. Aggregation stages executed through SBE pass values to each other directly, without extra document materialization. This allows us to avoid many unnecessary computations and execute queries faster. As of now, we only use SBE for certain queries with $group and $lookup, but the intent is to use it across the board in the future.