S7:E5 - "To b-tree or not to b-tree"

In last episode, we talked about 2-3 trees, where the nodes of every tree contain data in the form of keys, as well as potential child nodes, and can contain more than one key. This takes us to b-trees, which is a generalized version of the 2-3 tree, and are super efficient for storing data in an indexed database, like MySQL. Based on Vaidehi Joshi's blog post, "Busying Oneself With B-Trees".

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Vaidehi Joshi (co-host)

Vaidehi is a writer and an engineer at Tilde, where she works on Skylight. She's the creator of basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science.

Saron Yitbarek (co-host)

Saron is a developer, podcaster, founder of CodeNewbie, and host of the CodeNewbie Podcast.

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