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The DBA in 2028: from cluster operator to estate architect
Ask a DBA what their week looks like and you’ll hear a familiar list: provisioning requests, capacity planning, failover runbooks, and firefighting. That operating model worked when a DBA managed 10 or 15 databases. It doesn’t work when the estate grows to 150. The DBA role isn’t disappearing. It’s evolving from operating individual clusters to designing how the entire database estate runs. Why is the traditional operating model breaking? Three forces are accelerating database growth.
Real-Time Indexing for Billions of Vectors with CockroachDB
In a past life, I worked on an app that let users upload and share photos with friends and family. I’m amazed at how far technology has progressed since that time. It feels like magic that AI can “look” at a set of photos and “know” that they were taken at a child’s first birthday party or on a hike in the mountains.
How we built a cost-based SQL optimizer
Here at Cockroach Labs, we’ve had a continual focus on improving performance and scalability. To that end, our 2.1 release includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. Besides enabling SQL features like correlated subqueries for the first time, it provides us with a flexible optimization framework that will yield significant performance improvements in upcoming releases, especially in more complex reporting queries.
How we built a forever-free serverless SQL database
After 18 months of challenging work, we’ve launched the first truly scalable Serverless SQL database. It’s available right now, for free! Read on to learn how CockroachDB Serverless works from the inside out, and why we can give it away for free – not free for some limited period, but free forever. It required some significant and fascinating engineering to get us there. I think you’ll enjoy hearing about it. What is CockroachDB Serverless?
Packed parks: Missouri state parks visitors surged in 2020
Fishers celebrate the opening day of trout fishing season in March 2020 at Roaring River State Park. The Cassville park drew more than 1.4 million visitors for the year, a state high. | Via Missouri State Parks/Facebook Industries Sports & Entertainment Top Picks State parks in Missouri welcomed 14% more visitors in 2020 than they did the year before, according to a Missouri State Parks report.
Tiger Kickoff, The Podcast: Episode 2.10, Missouri vs. Georgia
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Tiger Kickoff, The Podcast: Episode 2.3, Missouri vs. Tennessee
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Notebook: MU coach out because of COVID-19; Shearin opts out
Defensive backs coach Charlie Harbison was not in attendance for Missouri’s Week 1 matchup with the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide because of COVID-19, a spokesperson confirmed Saturday. The spokesperson did not say whether Harbison tested positive for the virus or if he was just in quarantine. Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports was first to report the news.
Notebook: MU coach out because of COVID-19; Shearin opts out Original
Defensive backs coach Charlie Harbison was not in attendance for Missouri’s Week 1 matchup with the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide because of COVID-19, a spokesperson confirmed Saturday. The spokesperson did not say whether Harbison tested positive for the virus or if he was just in quarantine. Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports was first to report the news.
Tiger Kickoff, The Podcast: Episode 2.2, Missouri vs. Alabama
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Missouri football cancels practice Friday in support of social justice
Missouri football canceled practice Friday to “focus on the current state of our country”, according to a team statement. The team released a statement Friday evening saying thatpractice was canceled by the team with the support of coaches. Coaches and players also shared the statement on social media. We are relentless in our pursuit of equality for all.
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