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Understanding database indices by (poorly) implementing one
Or: building an intuition for how databases use indices -
Should we be caching
Or: how to talk yourself out of one of the hardest problems in computers -
Understanding MySQL Multiversion Concurrency Control
In which we figure out how MySQL writes new data without showing it in old queries. -
Understanding the Elasticsearch Percolator
In which we flip search on its head and save *searches* then search with *documents*.
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