Posts from blog by tag learning:
Building a Toy Database: Concurrency is Hard
Building a Toy Database: Learning by Doing
Ever wondered how databases work under the hood? I decided to find out by building one from scratch. Meet Bazoola - a simple file-based database written in pure Python.
Why Build a Toy Database?
As a developer, I use relational databases every day, but I never truly understood what happens when I INSERT or SELECT. Building a database from scratch taught me more about data structures, file I/O, and system design than any tutorial ever could.
Plus, it's fun to implement something that seems like magic!
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