Stories by jcartw

You need to be able to run your system

Why China is giving away its tech for free

What employees think of their companies' values

Designing the Ledgers API with Optimistic Locking

US Employment for Prof., Scientific and Tech Svcs: Computer Sys. Design/Related

Can IOPS Be Estimated from Fsync?

Consistent Hash Ring

Transactional Outbox Pattern (2021)

The Raft Consensus Algorithm

My Favorite Technical Blogs

Dice and Queues

Larry Fink says Bitcoin could replace the dollar as the reserve currency

Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)

Let's Build a Simple Database

One or Two? How Many Queues?

MySQL Transactions per Second with 3000 IOPS

Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2023)

MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)

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