If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! This is a series of articles introducing Distributed Systems concepts used in databases. First article of the cycle, was about Links, Two Generals and Impossibility Problem. …

If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECT More Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIO LSM Trees Access Patterns in LSM Trees B-Trees and RUM Conjecture New series on Distributed System concepts…

This week’s reading was a paper by the awesome HASLab research group. Paper addresses a problem of anti-entropy overhead, generated by Merkle Trees and introduces a framework for per-object causal consistency. …

If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECT More Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIO LSM Trees Access Patterns in LSM Trees B-Trees and RUM Conjecture New series on Distributed System concepts…

If you like the series, check out my book on Database Internals! New series on Distributed System concepts in Databases can be found here. In the first and second parts, we’ve discussed underlying Operating System mechanisms that help to perform writes on disk. …

If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECT More Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIO LSM Trees Access Patterns in LSM Trees B-Trees and RUM Conjecture A new series on Distributed System…

If you like this story, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECT More Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIO LSM Trees Access Patterns in LSM Trees B-Trees and RUM Conjecture New series on Distributed System concepts…

The three books I’ll be reviewing today are looking at the ways statistics and math can be badly misused. …

These are the notes I was taking while reading Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. If you’d like to read an article on note taking, you can check out Future-Proof Reading. Ideas The book discusses the problem of unnecessary destruction caused by the progress of the society and the moral side…