Stories by enz

The Operational Cost of Vacuuming in PostgreSQL

Valkey as a Message Broker for Request-Reply

Fjord – A Unix-like OS built from scratch

Reading Buffer statistics in EXPLAIN output

MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL: Understanding the Architectural Differences That Matter

Upcoming Tech Books to Read in 2026

Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

In Defense of 'Mantissa'

Ninja: A simple way to do builds (2020)

Postgres Serials Should Be Bigint (and How to Migrate)

I have settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AE suite of choice for my projects

Do Cloudflare's Lava Lamps Do Anything?

ChaCha12-BLAKE3 is now ChaCha20-BLAKE3 and is stable and production-ready

GCRA vs. Leaky / Token Buckets

I Was Thinking in Databases. I Should Have Been Thinking in Networks

The HTML Element

Sophisticated Simplicity of Modern SQLite

FreeBSD and Poudriere in High Security Environments

What happened to WebAssembly

Backpressure in JavaScript

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