Stories by tanelpoder

Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format

MT4G: A Tool for Auto-Discovery of NVIDIA and AMD GPU Compute, Memory Topologies

Postgres IPC:SyncRep – Sync Replication Is Not Actually Sync Replication

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark

AI is all about inference now

Explorations of RDMA in LLM Systems

Instance Explorer

Larger Than RAM Vector Indexes for Relational Databases

Turning PySpark into a Universal DataFrame API

Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs

Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases: A Technical Deep Dive for Engineering Teams

11X Faster ScyllaDB Backup

Enabling Trillion-Parameter Models on AWS EFA

pg_stat_plans: Track per-plan call counts, execution times and EXPLAIN texts

Apache Iggy is a high-performance, persistent message streaming platform

Postgres_AI Monitoring

Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes

aperf: A CLI tool to gather performance data and visualize using HTML graphs

ctop: Top-like interface for container metrics

Container Security book by Liz Rice (2nd edition, free download)

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