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    Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual

    Co-Founder Ben Darnell on Van Halen, brown M&Ms, and isolation. Watch now Here’s a surprising behavior...

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    Vector Search Queries with Time Filters in Pgvector

    Vector databases have emerged as a powerful solution for working with high-dimensional data. These databases store...

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    Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device

    Key takeaways Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexible device that adheres to the neck...

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    Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism

    Editor’s note: The one-in-a-million bug detailed below has never been reported by customers of Cockroach Labs....

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    Git Worktrees and GitButler

    Last week, I gave a talk at DevWorld with more "So You Think You Know Git"...

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    Don't Mock Your Machine Learning Models in Unit Tests

    I’ve been applying typical unit testing practices to machine learning code and it hasn’t been straightforward....

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    MIT and IBM Find Clever AI Ways Around Brute-Force Math

    Since the days of Isaac Newton, the fundamental laws of nature—optics, acoustics, engineering, electronics—all ultimately reduce...

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    A weird CPIO discrepancy

    We learnt previously that an initramfs in Linux is a “CPIO archive”, so I set out...

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    Lessons from debugging a tricky direct memory leak

    Sanchay Javeria | Software Engineer, Ads Data InfrastructureTo support metrics reporting for ads from external advertisers...