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Databases & Infrastructure
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NoSQL: When Relational Wasn't Enough
How the scale demands of Web 2.0 drove a new generation of databases that traded SQL guarantees for horizontal scalability.
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MySQL: The Database That Democratized Data
How an open-source relational database became the 'M' in LAMP and powered the first wave of web applications.
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Foundational
The Relational Model & SQL: Organizing the World's Data
Edgar Codd's 1970 paper gave us a mathematical foundation for databases, and SQL gave us a language to query them.
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DNS: The Internet's Phone Book
How a distributed naming system made IP addresses human-friendly and the web navigable.
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Foundational
ARPANET: The Network That Started It All
A crashed login, a nervous grad student, and an unauthorized email — how a Cold War research project accidentally laid the foundation for the internet.