Stories by eatonphil

Making a Bignum Library for Fun

Pg_lakehouse: A DuckDB Alternative in Postgres

How We Made PostgreSQL as Fast as Pinecone for Vector Data

Null Bitmap Builds a Database #2: Enter the Memtable

Is Oracle Finally Killing MySQL?

The Gift of My Time with Simon

A Cost Analysis of Replication vs S3 Express One Zone

Prophet: Optimizing LSM-Based Key-Value Store on ZNS SSDs [pdf]

Great intermediate database projects for learning

Life as a distributed systems researcher at MongoDB

Simple, Efficient, and Robust Hash Tables for Join Processing

Not Just Scale

Has South Korea struck oil?

RAG App with Postgres and Pgvector

Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough?

Locality-aware data repartitioning for Microsoft Orleans

The Place of Postgres in History [video]

Memories of an Enron Summer

Evolution of Cloud Block Store

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