Stories by eatonphil

Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism

MemTable, WAL, SSTable, Log Structured Merge(LSM) Trees

New in RocksDB 7.6, less mutex contention during compaction == more throughput

A Web Server with io_uring

Building a Tiny Mutex

SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

A minimal distributed key-value database with HashiCorp's Raft library

A library based on Viewstamped Replication Revisited

Resilience Engineering Papers

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work

Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space

What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?

SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

The Cha Cha Slide Is Turing Complete

Distributed Replicated Block Device – DRBD

Assembling a Query Engine from Spare Parts

People are stuck in MB/s disk read world because fast cloud instances are $$$

Strict-serializability, but at what cost, for what purpose?

Performance of ORDER BY / DISTINCT has been terrible for too long in Postgres

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