Vol:17 No:11 → Bf-Tree: A Modern Read-Write-Optimized Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p3…

Badgers at VLDB 2024 🤗🤗🦡🦡

I'm here as well! Feel free to post any questions about Bf-Tree! Thanks for the excellent discord channel Alex P and the book!

Part 2 of how to use StringView / German Strings to *actually* make queries faster. Comparisons, inlining, gc, and buffer size tuning. influxdata.com/blog/faster-qu… Again all due to our incredible intern Xiangpeng Hao

Nice post from Xiangpeng about connectivity in the company. > Despite being a remote-only company, InfluxData is highly connected: cross-team collaborations, company-wide acknowledgments for great work, and short turn-around for approval. blog.haoxp.xyz/posts/working-…

Parquet pruning in DataFusion blog.haoxp.xyz/posts/parquet-… (DataFusion: datafusion.apache.org)

Blog post from Xiangpeng Hao explaining the different levels of pruning ApacheDataFusion applies when reading Parquet files: blog.haoxp.xyz/posts/parquet-… The diagrams in particular are 🧑‍🍳👌

The browser based parquet viewer parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems is pretty sweet -- let's you explore the file format, including schema and layout, and data with SQL. Natch it is based on ApacheDataFusion

Join my PhD prelim talk next Monday: Data-Aware Caching for Cloud Analytics 🕐 May 19, 1PM CDT 📍 CS2310 or Zoom: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/3081128886