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Recording: S06E09 – From Code Generation to Revolutionary RavenDB: Unveiling the Database Secrets with Oren Eini

Recording: S06E09 – From Code Generation to Revolutionary RavenDB: Unveiling the Database Secrets with Oren Eini

January 15, 2024

I spoke with Jaime recently in the Modern .NET Podcast: In this episode of The Modern .NET Show podcast, Oren Eini, a seasoned developer with over 20 years of experience in the .NET field, discussed the evolution of the .NET framework and the complexities that come with it. Eini highlighted the rapid pace of change in the language, from the…

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Deep Dive into the Architecture of an Indexing Engine

Deep Dive into the Architecture of an Indexing Engine

January 15, 2024

Join Oren Eini, CEO of RavenDB, as he explores the design and implementation of RavenDB’s indexing engine Corax, its impact on indexing and query performance, and how the engine addresses common challenges such as slow data retrieval, high hosting expenses, and sluggish development processes.

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Optimizing cache resets for higher transaction output

Optimizing cache resets for higher transaction output

January 11, 2024

One of the most frequent operations we make in RavenDB is getting a page pointer. That is the basis of pretty much everything that you can think of inside the storage engine. On the surface, that is pretty simple, here is the API we’ll call: public Page GetPage ( long pageNumber ) Easy, right? But internally, we need to ensure that we get the…

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RavenDB HTTP Compression: Bandwidth & Time reductions

RavenDB HTTP Compression: Bandwidth & Time reductions

January 3, 2024

I recently talked about how RavenDB is now using ZStd as the default compression algorithm for backups. That led to a reduction both in the amount of storage we are consuming for backups and a significant reduction in the time to actually run the backups. We have been exploring where else we can get those benefits and the changes were recently…

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Recording: .NET Rocks Data Sharding with Oren Eini

Recording: .NET Rocks Data Sharding with Oren Eini

January 2, 2024

This was actually released a while ago, I was occupied with other matters and missed that. I had a blast talking with Carl & Richard about data sharding and how we implemented that in RavenDB. What is data sharding, and why do you need it? Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini about his latest work on RavenDB, including the new data sharding…

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Recording: .NET Core podcast on RavenDB, performance and .NET

Recording: .NET Core podcast on RavenDB, performance and .NET

January 1, 2024

Jaime and I had a really good discussion about RavenDB, why I took the time to create my own NoSql database engine, and the fact that I built it using .NET Core before it was released (back in the pre-1.0 days, when it was known as dnx), and some of the optimisation stories that I worked on when creating RavenDB. Along the way, we cover what the…

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I was working on the 2024 budget numbers, and…

I was working on the 2024 budget numbers, and…

December 31, 2023

Today I had a meeting to go over the 2024 budget, and we ran into one of the most important line times. Our coffee budget. You know the old adage about: Coders are turning Coffee into Code, right? Certainly true in our case, in 2023 we spent a large 5-figure sum on coffee alone. And 2024 is shaping up to be even more expensive. Happy new…

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Learning over the holidays: Yet Another Bug Tracker sample app

Learning over the holidays: Yet Another Bug Tracker sample app

December 22, 2023

If you are reading this blog, I assume that you are a like-minded person. My idea of relaxation is to sit and write code. Hopefully on something that I’m not familiar with. I have many such blog post series covering topics I care about. It’s my idea of meditation. For the end of 2023, I thought that we could do something similar but on a broader…

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RavenDB Backups are now Faster & Smaller

RavenDB Backups are now Faster & Smaller

December 15, 2023

With the release of RavenDB 6.0, we are now starting to focus on smaller features. The first one out of the gate, part of RavenDB 6.0.1 release, is actually a set of enhancements around making backups faster, smaller and cheaper. I just checked, and the core backup behavior of RavenDB hasn’t changed much since 2010(!). In other words, decisions…