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JIT Compilers 102 (redvice.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | redvice.org | newest

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TLA+ specification for the Raft consensus algorithm (github.com/ongardie)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Twitter Verification for Organizations, a new kind of network on Twitter (business.twitter.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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The World Today, Foretold by Nixon (2011) (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp (twitter.com/en)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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TPC-H benchmark of Hyper, DuckDB and DataFusion on Parquet files (architecture-performance.fr)

2 years ago | eatonphil | architecture-performance.fr | newest

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Testing Sync at Dropbox (2020) (dropbox.tech)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dropbox.tech | newest

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Cross shard transactions at 10M requests per second (2018) (dropbox.tech)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dropbox.tech | newest

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Madsim: Magical Deterministic Simulator for distributed systems in Rust (github.com/madsim-rs)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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High-Level Synthesis Made Easy (hlsbook.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | hlsbook.com | newest

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Building a Database in the 2020s (0xffff.me)

2 years ago | eatonphil | 0xffff.me | newest

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Libeatmydata – because fsync() should be a no-op (github.com/stewartsmith)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Making assertions about compiler decisions in Go programs via inline comments (github.com/jordanlewis)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

1

When Graham Greene Met Ernest Hemingway on the Set of 'Our Man in Havana' (crimereads.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | crimereads.com | newest

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Ensuring data reaches disk (2011) (lwn.net)

2 years ago | eatonphil | lwn.net | newest

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Can the U.S. See the Truth About China? (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nytimes.com | newest

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[flagged] The Problem with AI Is the Problem with Capitalism (jacobin.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jacobin.com | best

1

The Evolution of LeanStore (gi.de)

2 years ago | eatonphil | gi.de | newest

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Laptop vs. Desktop for RonDB Development (mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

2

Who killed US manufacturing? (2021) (investmentmonitor.ai)

2 years ago | eatonphil | investmentmonitor.ai | newest

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Hyundai was poised to become Tesla’s top contender. Then the U.S. blindsided it (latimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | latimes.com | frontpage

1

Move over Morricone The record labels rescuing lost Italian B-movie scores (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | theguardian.com | newest

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The Limitations of the Ethernet CRC and TCP/IP Checksums for Error Detection (noahdavids.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | noahdavids.org | newest

1

Swarm Testing [pdf] (utah.edu)

2 years ago | eatonphil | utah.edu | newest

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Some of the internal programming and debugging tools we use to make video games (youtube.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | youtube.com | frontpage

3

Writing high-performance clients for TigerBeetle (tigerbeetle.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | tigerbeetle.com | newest

1

What Uruguay Can Teach Us (americasquarterly.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | americasquarterly.org | newest

4

What Is Consensus (twitter.com/alexmillerdb)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale (2021) [pdf] (gts3.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | gts3.org | frontpage

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Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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The Ins and Outs of NYC Commuting (2019) [pdf] (nyc.gov)

2 years ago | eatonphil | nyc.gov | newest

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Benefits of dependencies in software projects as a function of effort (2017) (thegreenplace.net)

2 years ago | eatonphil | thegreenplace.net | newest

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An Effective Product Manager (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Lenovo puts the legendary ThinkPad brand on a phone: Meet the ThinkPhone (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | arstechnica.com | newest

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OkayWAL: A write-ahead log for Rust (bonsaidb.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | bonsaidb.io | newest

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Basic Parsing Difficulties in EndBASIC (jmmv.dev)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jmmv.dev | newest

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New York Announces Launch of $30M Pre-Seed and Seed Matching Fund (ny.gov)

2 years ago | eatonphil | ny.gov | newest

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‘I was a slave’: Up to 100k held captive by Chinese cybercriminals in Cambodia (latimes.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | latimes.com | newest

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I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | best

1

Programming Languages Resources (bernsteinbear.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | bernsteinbear.com | newest

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Favorite Compiler and Interpreter Resources (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | frontpage

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The Birth of Inter (2019) (figma.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | figma.com | newest

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WAL Mode in LiteFS (fly.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | fly.io | best

1

Make a Lisp – Review (stereobooster.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | stereobooster.com | newest

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HTTP/3 prioritization demystified (perfplanet.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | perfplanet.com | best

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Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone (aljazeera.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | aljazeera.com | best

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Illegal migration puts Slovakia into Schengen isolation (dw.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | dw.com | newest

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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Paper: VR Revisited – View changes – Questions (part 1) (jack-vanlightly.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | jack-vanlightly.com | newest

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Write Latency and Block Size (2010) (evanjones.ca)

2 years ago | eatonphil | evanjones.ca | newest

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Memory Pool System is a flexible and adaptable memory manager (ravenbrook.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | ravenbrook.com | frontpage

2

Google’s making code formatting a breeze in Docs (theverge.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | theverge.com | newest

1

LibJS Exploitation: 'Broobwser' Writeup (0xbigshaq.github.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS (twitter.com/awesomekling)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | best

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Groundbreaking marks start of work on Penn Station Access (trains.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | trains.com | frontpage

2

DS Smith to close Kent factory as it pushes ahead in Europe (ft.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | ft.com | newest

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Uruguay is plotting to poach Argentina’s tech sector (restofworld.org)

2 years ago | eatonphil | restofworld.org | frontpage

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Using Polars on Results from DuckDB's Arrow Interface in Rust (vikramoberoi.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | vikramoberoi.com | newest

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Is it worth writing about? (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns (twitter.com/petergyang)

2 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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Who Says C is Simple? (cil-project.github.io)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB (eatonphil.com)

2 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Online deadlock detection in go (Golang) (github.com/sasha-s)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Berkeley DB is too slow compared to recent DB engines (2015) (github.com/mklab-iti)

2 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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A minimal RocksDB example with Zig (eatonphil.com)

3 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | newest

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Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite (trailofbits.com)

3 years ago | eatonphil | trailofbits.com | best

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Durability: Linux File APIs (2020) (evanjones.ca)

3 years ago | eatonphil | evanjones.ca | frontpage

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Verifying distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.io | best

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SQLite: QEMU All over Again? (glaubercosta-11125.medium.com)

3 years ago | eatonphil | medium.com | best

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Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases (vldb.org)

3 years ago | eatonphil | vldb.org | frontpage

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Storage engines, efficiency and large documents, rows, objects (smalldatum.blogspot.com)

3 years ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism (shwestrick.github.io)

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.io | newest

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MemTable, WAL, SSTable, Log Structured Merge(LSM) Trees (ninegene.com)

3 years ago | eatonphil | ninegene.com | newest

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New in RocksDB 7.6, less mutex contention during compaction == more throughput (twitter.com/markcallaghandb)

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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A Web Server with io_uring

3 years ago | eatonphil | unixism.net | newest

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Building a Tiny Mutex

3 years ago | eatonphil | zig.news | newest

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SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

3 years ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | newest

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A minimal distributed key-value database with HashiCorp's Raft library

3 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | frontpage

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A library based on Viewstamped Replication Revisited

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

1

Resilience Engineering Papers

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | newest

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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.io | best

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A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work

3 years ago | eatonphil | vikramoberoi.com | newest

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Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space

3 years ago | eatonphil | arxiv.org | newest

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What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?

3 years ago | eatonphil | eatonphil.com | frontpage

3

SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

3 years ago | eatonphil | multiprocess.io | frontpage

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The Cha Cha Slide Is Turing Complete

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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Distributed Replicated Block Device – DRBD

3 years ago | eatonphil | kernel.org | newest

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Why do Unix assembly files use a .s extension?

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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Good Civilization players have better management skills

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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How SQLite Helps You Do ACID

3 years ago | eatonphil | fly.io | best

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Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case

3 years ago | eatonphil | fb.com | frontpage

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Assembling a Query Engine from Spare Parts

3 years ago | eatonphil | firebolt.io | newest

2

People are stuck in MB/s disk read world because fast cloud instances are $$$

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Strict-serializability, but at what cost, for what purpose?

3 years ago | eatonphil | blogspot.com | frontpage

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Performance of ORDER BY / DISTINCT has been terrible for too long in Postgres

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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If Facebook has stopped growing, dead users will outnumber the living in 2060

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | newest

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Perl is not memory-safe

3 years ago | eatonphil | twitter.com | frontpage

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Using Firecracker and Go to run short-lived, untrusted code execution jobs

3 years ago | eatonphil | stanislas.blog | newest

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Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB

3 years ago | eatonphil | github.com | frontpage