The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.

Going to the database repeatedly is slow and operations-heavy. Caching stores recent/frequent data in a faster layer (memory) ...

Breaking into 4 independent services means: Scale each based on actual need (crawler needs 10 instances, matcher needs 2) Test one piece at a time (ship faster, iterate publicly) Different tech ...