Best database blogs to follow
34 of the 211 blogs in the full directory of engineering blogs are tagged Databases and storage. Each one is listed below with a one-line description and who recommended it.
Database internals are one of the strongest parts of this list. Phil Eaton, Marc Brooker, Alex Miller and Justin Jaffray write about how databases are built, while Mark Callaghan publishes long-running performance benchmarks for MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB. Two company blogs, PlanetScale and ClickHouse, cover the same ground from the side of people who run these systems for customers; bits & pages explains storage engines from first principles.
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- PlanetScale
Company · Named by 2 people
Databases at scale: MySQL/Vitess, Postgres, storage and performance
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet), localhost:8080 (@girdharshukla26)
- Adam Marcus
Personal
Data systems, startups and engineering management
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Alex Miller
Personal
Databases, distributed transactions and storage
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Andy Grove
Personal
Query engines, Apache Arrow and DataFusion, Rust
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Artem Krylysov
Personal
Storage engines, databases and Go
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- bits & pages (Almog Gavra)
Personal
Database internals from first principles: LSM trees, SSTs, object storage
Recommended by Vivek Nathani
- Brandur Leach
Personal
Postgres, API design and Go
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- ClickHouse Blog
Company
OLAP database internals, query performance and analytics engineering
Recommended by Vivek Nathani
- Daniel Abadi
Personal
DBMS Musings: database systems research
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Evan Jones
Personal
Distributed systems, databases and low-level performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Gunnar Morling
Personal
Java, change data capture, Kafka and Flink
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Hubert Lubaczewski
Personal
PostgreSQL features, query plans and tips
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Jack Vanlightly
Personal
Distributed systems, streaming, table formats and formal verification
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Jamie Brandon
Personal
Databases, query languages and systems programming
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Joe Hellerstein
Personal
Databases and distributed systems research
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Julian Hyde
Personal
SQL, query optimisation and Apache Calcite
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Justin Jaffray
Personal
NULL BITMAP newsletter: databases and query optimisers
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Lawrence Jones
Personal
Postgres, reliability and building AI products
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Marc Brooker
Personal
Distributed systems, databases and formal methods at AWS
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Mark Callaghan
Personal
MySQL, Postgres and RocksDB performance benchmarks
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Murat Demirbas
Personal
Distributed systems paper reviews, TLA+ and databases
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Oren Eini
Personal
Database internals (RavenDB) and .NET performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Peter Eisentraut
Personal
PostgreSQL development
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Phil Eaton
Personal
Databases, distributed systems and compilers
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Tanel Poder
Personal
Linux and database performance troubleshooting
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Varun Upadhyay
Personal
Distributed computing paper notes and databases
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Vu Trinh (vutr)
Substack
Data-engineering system internals explained (warehouses, lakehouses, streaming)
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet)
- Chroma Research
Company
Retrieval and context-window research
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Discord Engineering
Company
Real-time systems and storage migrations
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Dropbox Tech
Company
Storage, sync and infrastructure
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Figma Engineering
Company
Multiplayer editing and database scaling
Recommended by Editor's pick
- GitHub Engineering
Company
Running GitHub, MySQL and Git internals
Recommended by Editor's pick
- turbopuffer
Company
Vector and full-text search built on object storage
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Uber Engineering
Company
Marketplace, data and storage systems
Recommended by Editor's pick
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