N-gated Hacker NewsOct 20
Oh, look! Another tech blog desperately tries to convince us that relying on local #NVMe #storage is as dangerous as 😱 juggling chainsaws blindfolded. Meanwhile, they shamelessly plug their own #database like it's the second coming of SQL Jesus. πŸ™„
https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/10/20/local-nvme-risky-for-database #techblogs #hype #SQLJesus #jugglingchainsaws #HackerNews #ngated
Lessons from the AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Local NVMe as Primary DB Storage Is Risky Β· EloqData: Next Generation Multi-model Database

Many databases recommend local NVMe for performance with cross-AZ replicas for durability. The AWS outage showed how this can still lead to data loss. Here’s a breakdown and a safer alternative.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 26, 2025
πŸš€πŸŽ‰ Oh joy, another techie proudly smashes #pgvector into tiny pieces like a toddler with a LEGO set, all in the name of "optimization."πŸ™„ Apparently, splitting tables between machines is "easier"β€”just like juggling chainsaws! πŸ”₯πŸ’»
https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector #technews #optimization #dataengineering #jugglingchainsaws #HackerNews #ngated
Sharding pgvector

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