AAA game launch is one of the most demanding stress tests any database can face. Jan Lehnardt (co-creator of Apache CouchDB) is at #bbuzz26 to talk through how they achieved 10x performance gains to meet exactly that challenge.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch/
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: expert analysis and pointed snark, well worth reading.
https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-may-12-61ce74840049?sk=48ca2769a468c7481db8f4211881cae8
Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says #Indonesia
celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 1237 nodes and 1735 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
Schon bei 2. WM-Spiel - Leere Ränge und Hecke sorgen für Gesprächsstoff #News #Nachrichten
Heute vor 35 Jahren: Am 12. Juni 1991 kam es im #Kernkraftwerk #Cattenom bei einem Starttest, wegen fehlender Verkabelung, zu einem Ausfall des Abschaltmechanismus. Obwohl andere Schutzmaßnahmen den Reaktor sicherten, wirft der Vorfall ernste Fragen zur Zuverlässigkeit auf.
I have a simple proof, and it only takes three days. 😈 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116397082247180637
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github