Breaking Down Abstractions: Database Indexes

In the introduction to this blog, I mentioned that I love breaking down abstractions to understand what makes them tick. This blog post is the first of many that will break down a fascinating abstraction. Abstraction Database indexes provide the abstraction of performant queries with the cost of some overhead during writes and additional storage...

What This Blog is All About

"Backended"? There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things (Phil Karlton). Or, my favorite variant: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors (Unknown) Naming is hard. Backended isn't a real word. "Back ended" and its hyphened form "back-ended"...