HelixDB: One Database for Graphs, Vectors, and AI Memory

Posted on Wed 07 October 2026 in Databases

Building an AI application usually means stitching together half a dozen systems: a relational database for app state, a vector store for embeddings, a graph database for relationships, and glue code to keep them in sync. HelixDB is an open-source database that tries to collapse that stack into one engine …

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Why Facebook Doesn't Use a Spreadsheet (And Why That Matters)

Posted on Mon 13 July 2026 in Developer Tools

Have You Ever Wondered How Instagram Always Knows?

How Instagram knows to suggest "people you may know" — and somehow it's always eerily accurate? Or how a fraud team at your bank can spot a suspicious ring of transactions in seconds, when the connections span dozens of accounts?

The secret, a …

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