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Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (wikipedia.org)

4 days ago | eatonphil | wikipedia.org | newest

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Optimizing our way through Metroid (antithesis.com)

a week ago | eatonphil | antithesis.com | best

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Octopolis and Octlantis (wikipedia.org)

a week ago | eatonphil | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Without the futex, it's futile (h4x0r.org)

a week ago | eatonphil | h4x0r.org | best

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From East India Company to Big Tech: Why corporations keep seeking colonies (theweek.in)

a week ago | eatonphil | theweek.in | newest

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Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL (brooker.co.za)

a week ago | eatonphil | brooker.co.za | newest

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Consensus Algorithms at Scale (2020) (planetscale.com)

2 weeks ago | eatonphil | planetscale.com | newest

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Why is LED light so bad? (nymag.com)

2 weeks ago | eatonphil | nymag.com | frontpage

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History of improvements in VACUUM in PostgreSQL (2023) (enterprisedb.com)

2 weeks ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest

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PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22, and 18 Beta 3 Released (postgresql.org)

2 weeks ago | eatonphil | postgresql.org | newest

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LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications [pdf] (ramalagappan.github.io)

2 weeks ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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Students from Southeast Asia in demand at universities (dw.com)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | dw.com | frontpage

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Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data (cloud.google.com)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | google.com | newest

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Implementing Viewstamped Replication protocol (2023) (distributed-computing-musings.com)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | distributed-computing-musings.com | newest

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Scaling Correctness: Marc Brooker on a Decade of Formal Methods at AWS (podcasts.apple.com)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | apple.com | newest

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Postgres Replication Slots: Confirmed Flush LSN vs. Restart LSN (morling.dev)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | morling.dev | newest

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Let's Hax0r a GC (Eventually) (h4x0r.org)

3 weeks ago | eatonphil | h4x0r.org | newest

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club (eatonphil.com)

4 weeks ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | best

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Giving Benchmarks a Boat (buttondown.com/jaffray)

a month ago | eatonphil | buttondown.com | newest

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Top courtyards in New York City residential buildings (cityrealty.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | cityrealty.com | newest

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How to Test the Reliability of Durable Execution (dbos.dev)

a month ago | eatonphil | dbos.dev | newest

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Kubernetes Solves Its Biggest Problem: Managing Databases (thenewstack.io)

a month ago | eatonphil | thenewstack.io | frontpage

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A distributed systems reliability glossary (antithesis.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | antithesis.com | newest

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Algeria (malloc.dog)

a month ago | eatonphil | malloc.dog | newest

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Why Bhutan Is Building the Anti-Dubai [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Efficiency of a Sparse Hash Table (ashutoshpg.blogspot.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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Implementing typography at scale: the journey behind the screens (atlassian.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | atlassian.com | newest

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On Far Memory (malloc.dog)

a month ago | eatonphil | malloc.dog | newest

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A new dimension of database design (typedb.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | typedb.com | newest

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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines (polarsignals.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | polarsignals.com | newest

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The (Non-) Effect of Primary Keys on Bulk Data Load Performance (enterprisedb.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest

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Fail Faster: Staging and Fast Randomness for Property-Based Testing [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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FUZZING'25 Keynote: "Are you sure you belong in academia?" by Will Wilson [video] (youtube.com)

2 months ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without PhD (emptysqua.re)

2 months ago | eatonphil | emptysqua.re | newest

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Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency is now GA (amazon.com)

3 months ago | eatonphil | amazon.com | newest

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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization (buttondown.com/jaffray)

3 months ago | eatonphil | buttondown.com | newest

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How often is the query plan optimal? (vondra.me)

3 months ago | eatonphil | vondra.me | frontpage

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Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage (redpanda.com)

3 months ago | eatonphil | redpanda.com | frontpage

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Chinese industrial maximalism: Lu Feng (high-capacity.com)

3 months ago | eatonphil | high-capacity.com | newest

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There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | eatonphil | arxiv.org | newest

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Kicking the Tires on CedarDB's SQL (buttondown.com/jaffray)

4 months ago | eatonphil | buttondown.com | newest

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New York City steam system (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | eatonphil | wikipedia.org | newest

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Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution (nyu.edu)

4 months ago | eatonphil | nyu.edu | frontpage

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How to give a 20 minute talk [pdf] (duke.edu)

4 months ago | eatonphil | duke.edu | newest

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The Zoom attack you didn't see coming (helpnetsecurity.com)

5 months ago | eatonphil | helpnetsecurity.com | frontpage

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Plan to Attack Switzerland Before Business Hours (2014) (medium.com/war-is-boring)

6 months ago | eatonphil | medium.com | frontpage

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A C implementation of defer using `goto` (gist.github.com)

6 months ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Characteristics, Impact, and Tolerance of Partial Disk Failures (2008) (psu.edu)

6 months ago | eatonphil | psu.edu | newest

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Was Salonica a Levantine City? (2012) (levantineheritage.com)

6 months ago | eatonphil | levantineheritage.com | newest

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Postgres in the Time of Monster Hardware (enterprisedb.com)

6 months ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest

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The Immutable Future of PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG (gabrielebartolini.it)

6 months ago | eatonphil | gabrielebartolini.it | newest

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Other Kinds of Talks (scattered-thoughts.net)

7 months ago | eatonphil | scattered-thoughts.net | newest

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CMU 17-712: Fantastic Bugs and How to Find Them (cmu-fantastic-bugs.github.io)

7 months ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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How to disaggregate a log replication protocol (jack-vanlightly.com)

7 months ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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The Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia (independent.co.uk)

7 months ago | eatonphil | independent.co.uk | newest

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The Slotted Counter Pattern (2020) (planetscale.com)

7 months ago | eatonphil | planetscale.com | frontpage

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Doubling System Read Throughput with Only 26 Lines of Code (2020) (pingcap.medium.com)

7 months ago | eatonphil | medium.com | newest

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Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code (cedardb.com)

8 months ago | eatonphil | cedardb.com | newest

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People who use ChatGPT for writing are robust detectors of AI-generated text (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | eatonphil | arxiv.org | newest

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Cloud Native Computing Now Has Its Own File System: CubeFS (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | eatonphil | thenewstack.io | newest

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The missing tier for query compilers (scattered-thoughts.net)

8 months ago | eatonphil | scattered-thoughts.net | frontpage

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How Variable-Increment Counting Bloom Filters Work (nochlin.com)

8 months ago | eatonphil | nochlin.com | newest

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2025: The Year of 1k DataFusion-Based Systems (influxdata.com)

8 months ago | eatonphil | influxdata.com | newest

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Channel Sharding in Go (buttondown.com/jaffray)

8 months ago | eatonphil | buttondown.com | newest

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Zig Strike: The ultimate toolkit for payload creation and evasion (kpmg.com)

8 months ago | eatonphil | kpmg.com | newest

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What Are the Magical Clocks For? (buttondown.com/jaffray)

9 months ago | eatonphil | buttondown.com | newest

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Learnings after 4 years working with 50+ companies on data engineering projects (javisantana.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | javisantana.com | newest

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Zoom Changes Name to Emphasize AI Offerings, Gives Sales Forecast (bloomberg.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | bloomberg.com | newest

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PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop – December 2024 (rhaas.blogspot.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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LevelDB Explained – How to Analyze the Time Complexity of SkipLists? (selfboot.cn)

10 months ago | eatonphil | selfboot.cn | newest

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Lecture 16: Relational Algebra [pdf] (washington.edu)

10 months ago | eatonphil | washington.edu | newest

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Building a first-class exchange architecture with CoralSequencer (coralblocks.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | coralblocks.com | newest

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Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java (github.com/coralblocks)

10 months ago | eatonphil | github.com | frontpage

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Modern Hardware for Future Databases (transactional.blog)

10 months ago | eatonphil | transactional.blog | newest

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Reading the Generalized Isolation Level Definitions Paper with Alloy (surfingcomplexity.blog)

10 months ago | eatonphil | surfingcomplexity.blog | newest

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Obtaining statistical properties through modeling and simulation (jack-vanlightly.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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NYC's congestion pricing tolls to launch Jan. 5: What you need to know (gothamist.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | gothamist.com | newest

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"I'm fortunate to have a call with the Bluesky back end team for an hour a week" (bsky.app)

10 months ago | eatonphil | bsky.app | frontpage

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Spotify launches push into video as it takes on YouTube (independent.co.uk)

10 months ago | eatonphil | independent.co.uk | newest

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Analytics-Optimized Concurrent Transactions (duckdb.org)

10 months ago | eatonphil | duckdb.org | newest

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Why pg_dump Is Amazing (rhaas.blogspot.com)

10 months ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | frontpage

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The Snapdragon X Elite has transformed Windows PCs for me (crackberry.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | crackberry.com | newest

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Are diamonds Earth's best friend? Gem dust could cool the planet (science.org)

11 months ago | eatonphil | science.org | newest

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Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency (distributed-computing-musings.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | distributed-computing-musings.com | newest

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Norlha, the Luxury Yak Wool Brand Made by Nomads on the Tibetan Plateau (anothermag.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | anothermag.com | frontpage

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What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in v17 (speakerdeck.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | speakerdeck.com | newest

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Categorizing How Distributed Databases Utilize Consensus Algorithms (medium.com/adamprout)

11 months ago | eatonphil | medium.com | frontpage

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Egypt, Saudi Arabia push ahead with $1.8B electricity interconnector project (zawya.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | zawya.com | frontpage

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Why You Shouldn't Forget to Optimize the Data Layout (cedardb.com)

11 months ago | eatonphil | cedardb.com | frontpage

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Influencer Dynamics (kazimiersmith.us)

11 months ago | eatonphil | kazimiersmith.us | newest

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Applying Flexible Paxos to Raft (jack-vanlightly.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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PostgreSQL 17 Gets Incremental Backup, SQL Queries for JSON (thenewstack.io)

12 months ago | eatonphil | thenewstack.io | newest

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Resource Management in Aurora Serverless (amazon.science)

12 months ago | eatonphil | amazon.science | newest

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The Trailblazing Citizen Astronaut (youtube.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Zud (wikipedia.org)

12 months ago | eatonphil | wikipedia.org | newest

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Open Versus Closed: A Cautionary Tale (2006) [pdf] (usenix.org)

12 months ago | eatonphil | usenix.org | newest

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Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service (2022) (infoq.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | infoq.com | newest

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Change query support in Apache Iceberg v2 (jack-vanlightly.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business (reuters.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | reuters.com | newest

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The Place of Postgres in History (enterprisedb.com)

12 months ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest