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Continued Investments in Price Performance and Faster Top-K Queries
Performance optimizations of `ORDER BY ... LIMIT k`, also known as Top-K queries in SQL, in the Snowflake Data Warehouse. Joint work with Juliane Waack. Part 2.
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Speeding up Top-K Queries in Snowflake
Performance optimizations of `ORDER BY ... LIMIT k`, also known as Top-K queries in SQL, in the Snowflake Data Warehouse. Joint work with Juliane Waack.
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My Journey to Becoming a TiKV Contributor
I had the pleasure the work on TiKV, a distributed key-value store in Rust that serves as a storage engine for TiDB, as an LFX Program Mentee in 2021. The goal was to implement a "pluggable" coprocessor, similar to HBase's coprocessor, where users can leverage the computational power of storage nodes and directory execute arbitrary computation on them.
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Automatic Flamegraphs for Benchmarks in Rust
Automatically generate performance flamegraphs for Rust benchmarks with Criterion using pprof and in-process profiling hooks.
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Header-Only Self-Registering Classes for Factories in C++
Sometimes, especially with the factory pattern, you want your derived classes to register automatically to a factory class. However, I found this harder than expected! Especially if you want it to be header only. Here is a quick walk-through of how this can be done.
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Add RapidJSON with CMake
RapidJSON is a nice C++ library for parsing JSON files. If you use CMake, we can automatically download it as a dependency for your project.
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Creating portable native applications with .Net Mono
While .Net projects usually require a runtime environment, the Mono project allows us to compile a program to native code with all dependencies included. In this blog post, we will explore how to do this.