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

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a year ago | eatonphil | anothermag.com | frontpage

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a year ago | eatonphil | speakerdeck.com | newest

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a year ago | eatonphil | medium.com | frontpage

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a year ago | eatonphil | zawya.com | frontpage

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a year ago | eatonphil | cedardb.com | frontpage

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Influencer Dynamics (kazimiersmith.us)

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The Trailblazing Citizen Astronaut (youtube.com)

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Zud (wikipedia.org)

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

a year ago | eatonphil | infoq.com | newest

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

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The Place of Postgres in History (enterprisedb.com)

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Storage Disaggregated Databases and Shared Transaction Log Architecture (medium.com/dichenldc)

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Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans [pdf] (vldb.org)

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a year ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest

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Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems (transactional.blog)

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The Closed-Loop Benchmark Trap (buttondown.com)

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Can You Do Both: Fast Scans and Fast Writes in a Single System? (cedardb.com)

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a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Build reliable and intelligent applications with Spanner editions (cloud.google.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | google.com | newest

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Yes, New York Is Hotter Than Ever (2020) (thecut.com)

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Data Replication Design Spectrum (transactional.blog)

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This Tiny Country Feeds the World (2020) (nationalgeographic.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | nationalgeographic.com | frontpage

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Who Is in Charge of Postgres? (enterprisedb.com)

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In Latin America, Your Zip Code Determines Whether You Live in a Democracy (cfr.org)

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Postgres Mentoring Program Updates (rhaas.blogspot.com)

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Synchronization Is Bad for Scale (wippler.dev)

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Scalable Analysis on Dynamic Semi-Structured Data [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Elegant Full Text Search [video] (youtube.com)

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Understanding Apache Paimon's Consistency Model Part 1 (jack-vanlightly.com)

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Oracle and Google Cloud Announce a Multicloud Partnership (oracle.com)

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NewSQL systems fail to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner (2018) (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

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Low Latency Logging in Rust (ochagavia.nl)

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Russia's Putin in Hanoi: What does Vietnam hope to gain? (dw.com)

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Reed–Solomon Codes for Coders (wikiversity.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | wikiversity.org | frontpage

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Seagate Demonstrates HDD with PCIe NVMe Interface (tomshardware.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | tomshardware.com | newest

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When will the HDD go extinct? (techzine.eu)

a year ago | eatonphil | techzine.eu | newest

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When are SSDs slow? (cedardb.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cedardb.com | best

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Linux Kernel Development – Automatic Cleanup 2/2 (javiercarrascocruz.github.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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a year ago | eatonphil | sowetanlive.co.za | newest

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Malaysia to Join BRICS (aljazeera.com)

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How We Implemented ScyllaDB's "Tablets" Data Distribution (scylladb.com)

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Japanese words and names sound African (2022) (farooqkperogi.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | farooqkperogi.com | best

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Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone (nature.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | nature.org | frontpage

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Making a Bignum Library for Fun (austinhenley.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | austinhenley.com | newest

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Pg_lakehouse: A DuckDB Alternative in Postgres (paradedb.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | paradedb.com | best

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How We Made PostgreSQL as Fast as Pinecone for Vector Data (timescale.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | timescale.com | newest

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Null Bitmap Builds a Database #2: Enter the Memtable (buttondown.email/jaffray)

a year ago | eatonphil | buttondown.email | newest

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Is Oracle Finally Killing MySQL? (percona.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | percona.com | newest

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a year ago | eatonphil | wordpress.com | newest

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A Cost Analysis of Replication vs S3 Express One Zone (jack-vanlightly.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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Prophet: Optimizing LSM-Based Key-Value Store on ZNS SSDs [pdf] (msstconference.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | msstconference.org | newest

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Great intermediate database projects for learning (transactional.blog)

a year ago | eatonphil | transactional.blog | newest

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Life as a distributed systems researcher at MongoDB (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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Simple, Efficient, and Robust Hash Tables for Join Processing (cedardb.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | cedardb.com | newest

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Not Just Scale (brooker.co.za)

a year ago | eatonphil | brooker.co.za | best

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Has South Korea struck oil? (koreaherald.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | koreaherald.com | newest

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RAG App with Postgres and Pgvector (enterprisedb.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | enterprisedb.com | newest

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Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough? (archive.org)

a year ago | eatonphil | archive.org | newest

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Locality-aware data repartitioning for Microsoft Orleans (twitter.com/reubenbond)

a year ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The Place of Postgres in History [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | newest

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Memories of an Enron Summer (dropbox.com)

a year ago | eatonphil | dropbox.com | newest

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Evolution of Cloud Block Store (asatarin.github.io)

a year ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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Hello World, Simple Event Broker (vbang.dk)

a year ago | eatonphil | vbang.dk | best

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Aleppo, Syria: a cultural guide (2011) (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | eatonphil | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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a year ago | eatonphil | blog.google | newest

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WebAssembly Is Turning into Corba (twitter.com/lemire)

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