# Write-ahead logs, recommender systems and a clean start for the web - What our team is reading

DevFeed: [Write-ahead logs, recommender systems and a clean start for the web - What our team is reading](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/write-ahead-logs-recommender-systems-and-a-clean-start-for-the-web-what-our-team-is-reading-18759.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/what-we-are-reading-0e>)

Author: Jorge Sancha

Published: 2020-08-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [the-data-base](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-data-base.md>)

## AI overview

The excerpt describes storing each database record as a linked list of versions marked with transaction IDs, framing the log and the data as closely related concepts.

## Source excerpt

At base, the idea was to keep each record in the database in a linked list of versions stamped with transaction IDs -- in some sense, this is 'the log as data' or 'the data as a log', depending on your point of view.