Episode 17: The Library That Never Forgets
from SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us
Mia and Leo open the doors on databases — software's long-term memory. Tables, rows, columns, and indexes explained through a library filing system, plus why a database beats a spreadsheet when ten thousand people show up at once. So what does a database actually store, and how does it find anything in a blink?
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