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Vaidehi Joshi for Byte Sized

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Byte Sized Episode 5: Birth of the B-tree

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about the B-tree. In computer science, a B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time.

You can find more info about b-trees here...

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

👋 hi Ruby 🐶

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Joe Zack

That intro gets me every time!

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Ben Halpern

It's so typical for programmers to try and make the B stand for so many things instead of just picking something

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Ben Halpern

...Naming things is hard

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Nick Taylor

and LOL

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