DefconQ and Stephen Taylor are looking at bringing back Iverson College this September. We’re planning something special just for KDB/Q devs.

We’re looking at a 4-day residential (Sept 6–10), doing KDB/Q with some of the best in the field, deep dives, hands-on sessions, and real conversations with people who build production systems every day. This would see the start of community-curated libraries to support a lifetime of your professional work with kdb.

We intend this to be affordable to devs paying their own way. In Suffolk and in hostel-quality accommodation – but with our own chefs! A hybrid: hackathon and country house party. An event you will never forget.

Let us know: would you like an invitation? Answer the poll https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexanderunterrainer_defconq-...

More about Iverson College https://iversoncollege.com Last episodes recap https://youtu.be/w-MyzJLHfmc

For everyone who is still convinced that the community edition isn't free (forever). You can rewatch the Q&A with KX here

https://streamyard.com/watch/RGMjB6mdK4eg

Sincerely Yours terrible secondary source with a confusing website

QuestDB is just a DB. What people get wrong about KDB is that it's so much more. It's a programming language with DB capabilities. You can use for real time streaming, in memory DB and on disk DB. You can build your entire analytics on top of that. There's nothing else out there that let's you build and entire framework/platform with just one single tech stack.

Q is not just a query language or a database. It's an array programming language with database capability. You can build an entire framework with just Q, from real-time streaming, to in memory database to on disk database. You can build all APIs and business logic around it. Because it's vector oriented and in memory it's faster than pretty much everything else, no loops required. I have seen a team of 15 KDB developers build what would require an entire etrading department of 200+ developers

There's nothing that gets close to KDB. You can build an entire framework with just KDB

Thanks. Looks like at least someone could follow my thought process

If your site requires people to explain your thought process, your presentation has failed, unless your goal is to confuse as many visitors as possible, in which case I wouldn't change a thing.

No LLM can write KDB yet

As most KDB code is proprietary, one wonders if there's even enough available code to train/steal from.

KDB code is as proprietary as java, python, C++ code found at other financial institutions. What's proprietary is the Q language. not the code you write with it

I think what they mean is that there is less publicly available kdb code for llms to be trained on

No "public" LLM can write KDB yet.

I have been using docusaurus for my tech blog (www.defconq.tech) and it's easy enough to use for a non front end dev.

Glad to hear it's work without a front-end development background.

Yeah, it's great for non-front-end folks! The default themes look pretty good, and you can use a bunch of pre-made components right in your markdown.

My one liner solution runs in 76ms on my 10 year old mac. q)\ts exec (min;max;avg)@\:measurement by city from flip `city`measurement!("SF";";") 0: `:weather_stations.csv 76 8720688

Your 10 year old mac can ingest the input at 157GB/s? Is that from RAM or from disk?

Actually I only had a partial file :/ didn't realise that the file in the data folder was only a sample