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Richard Newman

Richard Newman

I have moved away from Medium

You can follow me via RSS or on the web at https://blog.twinql.com. My latest post is about joining Stripe.

Feb 6, 2022

Feb 6, 2022

Richard Newman

A long pause

Working at AWS is very different to working at smaller mission-driven companies like Mozilla.

Sep 25, 2021

Sep 25, 2021

Richard Newman

Thinking about Syncing, Part 4: keeping track

In Part 3 we argued that the concerns of application code differ from those of synchronization code. In this part we will take a moment to…

May 31, 2018

May 31, 2018

Richard Newman

Thinking about Syncing, Part 3: separation of concerns

In Part 1 we framed synchronization as exchanging information to allow clients to converge on a shared understanding of the world…

May 30, 2018

May 30, 2018

Richard Newman

Thinking about Syncing, Part 2: timelines and change

In the first part of this series we established some definitions, concluding with a framing of synchronization as the merging of two…

Nov 1, 2017

Thinking about Syncing, Part 2: timelines and change

Nov 1, 2017

Richard Newman

Thinking about Syncing, Part 1: timelines

I’ve been thinking about syncing data — in particular, about Firefox Sync, systems that touch it, and systems that might replace it — for…

Oct 11, 2017

Thinking about Syncing, Part 1: timelines

Oct 11, 2017

Richard Newman

A conceptual introduction to Project Mentat

This post is intended for a particular audience: developers who perhaps haven’t done lots of database or data representation work, want to…

Feb 21, 2017

Feb 21, 2017

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Introducing Project Mentat, a flexible embedded knowledge store

Evolving storage is hard. Can we make it easier?

Nov 15, 2016

Nov 15, 2016

Richard Newman

Richard Newman

Principal Engineer @ AWS. Formerly Mozilla, Microsoft, Tellme. At parties you can usually find me sitting on the floor with someone's dog.

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