Easier Stream Processing On Kafka With ksqlDB

SummaryIn this episode Weimo Liu, co‑founder of PuppyGraph, talks about the engineering behind their “zero-copy” graph querying engine for lakehouse and database sources. He explores how PuppyGraph lets you run Cypher and Gremlin traversals and graph algorithms directly on data i ...  Show more

SummaryIn this episode Robert Nishihara, co-founder of Anyscale and co-creator of Ray, talks about maximizing hardware utilization for AI and data-intensive workloads. He explores Ray’s evolution alongside Kubernetes and PyTorch, and why consolidation at these layers has enabled ...  Show more

I’m a big believer that database systems share similar core fundamentals at their storage layer and understanding them allows one to compare different DBMS objectively. For example, How documents are stored in MongoDB is no different from how MySQL or PostgreSQL store rows. Ev ...

The communication between backend applications and database systems always fascinated me. The protocols keep evolving and we are in constant search for an efficient protocol that best fit the workload of Backend-DB communication.

In this episode of the backend engineeri ...

MongoDB, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, or any other database manages concurrency control differently. There are two methods, pessimistic and optimistic, both have their pros and cons. Let explore how different databases implement this and what is the effect on perf ...

Algorithms & Data Structures are critical to Backend Engineering however it really depends on what kind of application and infrastructure you are building. In this video I want to go through the following   1 Backend Engineers are two types - Integrating Existing ...