This essay covers the design behind Instant. If the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise, would a database-looking solution solve them?
surrealdb/surrealdb
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last?
Our teams advance the state of the art through research, systems engineering, and collaboration across Google.
Graceful database schema evolution: the PRISM workbench: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: Vol 1, No 1
Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia and public scientific databases: in these projects based on multiparty ...
ybzeek/The-Loom
A high-throughput, database-free ingestion engine for the AT Protocol (Bluesky) Firehose, engineered for consumer hardware constraints.
drawDB | Online database diagram editor and SQL generator
Online database entity-relationship diagram editor, data modeler, and SQL generator. Design, visualize, and export scripts without an account and completely free of charge.
neodb-social/skybridge
🌁 bridge Popfeed & BookHive's AT Protocol records into the Fediverse as NeoDB-compatible activities.
An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2)
Roaring Bitmaps offer an even more efficient way to store and query an entire social graph, fitting the entire network of 5.5M users and 164M+ follows into a ~1.6GB SQLite DB on disk.
LiveStore: SQLite-based data layer for local-first apps
Introducing: LiveStore - the client-centric, local-first data layer for high performance applications.
Firebase Studio
Firebase Studio is an entirely web-based workspace for full-stack application development, complete with the latest generative AI from Gemini, and full-fidelity app previews, powered by cloud emulators.
Using GraphQL in Rust | Shuttle
This article details how to build a GraphQL server in Rust. We will explore using queries, mutations as well as subscriptions to make a fully working endpoint.
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
Johannes Schickling on Twitter / X
After 4 years of work, I'm incredibly excited to introduce LiveStore, the next-gen data layer I'm building for Overtone.It's based on reactive SQLite and has a built-in sync engine. Give it a try - would love your feedback! https://t.co/DB0cEXY9MD— Johannes Schickling (@schickling) May 27, 2025
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and... - Selection from Designing Data-Intensive Applications [Book]
neodb-social/neodb
🧩 a self-hosted server tracking what you read/watch/listen/play, powering a global distributed community federating via ActivityPub and ATProto.