Stories by eatonphil

The (Non-) Effect of Primary Keys on Bulk Data Load Performance

Fail Faster: Staging and Fast Randomness for Property-Based Testing [video]

FUZZING'25 Keynote: "Are you sure you belong in academia?" by Will Wilson [video]

From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without PhD

Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency is now GA

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

How often is the query plan optimal?

Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

Chinese industrial maximalism: Lu Feng

There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator

Kicking the Tires on CedarDB's SQL

New York City steam system

Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution

How to give a 20 minute talk [pdf]

The Zoom attack you didn't see coming

Plan to Attack Switzerland Before Business Hours (2014)

A C implementation of defer using `goto`

Characteristics, Impact, and Tolerance of Partial Disk Failures (2008)

Was Salonica a Levantine City? (2012)

Postgres in the Time of Monster Hardware

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