The best Databases newsletters

A software engineer's blog covering hands-on lessons from building observability pipelines on ClickHouse, including the silent failure modes he encountered. It also offers personal essays and speculative writing on desktop UI design and the burden of constant smartphone connectivity.

Slashroot is a technical newsletter explaining Linux, databases and systems internals, such as B+trees in MySQL and eBPF, with worked examples. Readers get practical, concept-first explanations aimed at sysadmins and DevOps engineers.

This vendor newsletter from Zep covers agent memory design, including defending against memory poisoning, the architecture of its graph database service Konig, and its MCP server for connecting agents to shared memory. Readers get technical guidance on security, retrieval and governance for AI agent memory, with product announcements woven in.

Engineering blog posts from Synerise's AI and big data lab covering workflow automation throughput, sequential recommendation benchmarks comparing TIGER and LIGER, and streaming optimization in the Terrarium SQL engine. Readers get concrete architecture details, benchmark comparisons and performance-tuning patterns from practitioners.

Hungry Minds is a weekly Monday email that digests recent software engineering articles, AI and tech trends, and a coding tip. Each issue includes one deep dive summarizing a large-scale engineering case study, such as database or Node.js infrastructure work.

A company blog for Sourcetable, an AI spreadsheet product, covering product launches such as the ClickHouse connector and its own benchmark results. Readers get feature announcements and vendor-written claims about AI-driven data analysis in spreadsheets.