Benchmaxxing

I've read a few posts this past week – every single one promises something incredible, each with a big cool number: real-time queries 16x faster, storage 40x faster, point lookups at O(1). All three come from well-known engineering blogs people trust, all three are (probably) reproducible, and all three, as seems now a standard in the industry, measure something other than what you think you're reading. Three Posts Databricks' Reyden At its June keynote, Databricks launched Reyden — a