Diving deep into systems

How modern databases keep their cool

So I've been thinking a lot about database internals the past few weeks. For instance, how do these things actually work under the hood? I mean, we're all writing code that hammers these poor databases with concurrent requests, and somehow they don't explode into

A deep dive into LSM Tree Architecture

Database architecture might seem like an an arcane art, but at its core, it's about solving a fundamental challenge: how to retrieve and store data efficiently. While you've likely heard of relational databases using B-trees (like PostgreSQL or MySQL), there is another architectural approach that excels