Stories by tanelpoder

Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Schema Changes in Azure SQL Database [pdf]

Can AI Agents Agree?

Useful queries to analyze PostgreSQL lock trees (a.k.a. lock queues)

AWS Aurora DSQL Playground

bpfviewer: A tool for disassembling, debugging and visualizing BPF object files

Testing the Datadog Explain Plan Visualizer with Oracle Execution Plans

MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling

Your Disk Just Lied to You – and Your Checksums Said Everything Was Fine

Cilium Up and Running book released (including free eBook)

Turbocharging PostgreSQL Listen/Notify with 40x Boost

RocksDB development finds a CPU bug

pg_ash: Active Session History for PostgreSQL wait event sampling

pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light)

Bluebox Docker: A Living PostgreSQL Sample Database

Zvec is a lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

Performance and reliability pitfalls of eBPF [video,pdf]

Data Modeling Is Changing

Amdahl's Law and Its Complement [pdf]

Mdserve 1.0: Markdown Preview for Coding Agents

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

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