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systemd, Part Deux
It's been a bit since our last systemd post, but we've been hard at work, so...
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RocksDB: Not A Good Choice for a High-Performance Streaming Platform | Feldera
Recently, we added a custom storage engine to Feldera. Initially, we aimed to leverage an existing...
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Understanding the Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases
Storage-compute disaggregation in databases has emerged as a pivotal architecture in cloud environments, as evidenced by...
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A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation
I was working on my simple-id library and was curious about different methods to generate an...
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An Extensive Benchmark of C and C++ Hash Tables
Jackson Allan · Published 29 May 2024 · Updated 2 June 2024 Introduction: Why Another Hash-Table...
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Abstract interpretation in the Toy Optimizer
CF Bolz-Tereick wrote some excellent posts in which they introduce a small IR and optimizer and...
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How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
First of all: No illegal access was gained, and no data was lost, compromised, or exfiltrated...
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Postgres sequences can commit out-of-order
An under-appreciated fact is that while MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) systems like Postgres are strongly consistent,...
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The history of replication in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 7.1 introduced the write-ahead log (WAL). Before that release, all open data files had to...
