Stories by eatonphil

Could something like kei cars work in America?

Amapiano took over the world: “You have to get up and move – it’s contagious”

Understanding the Failure of the U.S. Embargo on Cuba

The case for South Korean membership in the G7

Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis

Helping sommeliers inventory wines faster with Whisper, DuckDB, and Metaphone

The simple joys of scaling up

An Introduction to Bε -trees and Write-Optimization [pdf]

Building and Deploying MySQL Raft at Meta

Understanding Modern Storage APIs: A systematic study of libaio, SPDK, io_uring [pdf]

What use cases would be affected if PostgreSQL switched to (very) large files?

Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?

Show HN: Discord group for NYC area folks in systems software

How OmniPaxos handles partial connectivity – and why other protocols can’t

JIT Compilers 102

TLA+ specification for the Raft consensus algorithm

Twitter Verification for Organizations, a new kind of network on Twitter

The World Today, Foretold by Nixon (2011)

Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp

TPC-H benchmark of Hyper, DuckDB and DataFusion on Parquet files

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