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24,200karma·4,492submissions·December 27, 2014
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I've read DDIA twice and I plan to read it again when the new edition comes out. And I will probably read it every couple of years again too. I can't really think of any other book I feel so…
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We did Instant Premier on YouTube for TigerBeetle Systems Distributed videos and it was a cool experience to have everyone chatting about the video in real time for a few minutes. This is basically th…
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I really can't relate to this attitude at all. :) Agree to disagree.
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Folks who run conferences like hytradboi and p99 were likely not going to run any in person conference at all. So it's not like they picked this over any other option other than not doing any con…
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I chatted with Colman years ago when Slight was around about joining forces and I was really impressed by his character and intelligence. It didn't work out between us for unrelated reasons. And …
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Fair enough! It was my intro to the Strugatsky brothers and I was hooked.
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The Dead Mountaineer's Inn is also good. A classic whodunnit with a twist.
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Thanks for mentioning! One of the most fun parts of this series I think is handling indexes on INSERT and actually making use of them based on (effectively) pattern matching on WHERE clauses. > (Us…
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> Only by virtue of the code seeming to store everything in JSON Yep.
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That's a good point but I think the system will still be correct in this scenario just unavailable. If a transaction ever fails to fully write a transaction metadata file all future transactions …
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> I know the article says "analytics workloads," but I wonder if this pattern could be used for ex. bursty-write workloads. The key point is that Delta Lake and Iceberg concurrency contro…
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Council on Foreign Relations is pretty good. Also longer-form documentaries on YouTube from DW, Al Jazeera, CNA Insider, Bloomberg Originals.
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> however, I think the article would benefit from distinguishing this approach from a 'real' database. that is MVCC gets you a lot more concurrency because it spreads out the exclusionary…
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This is my impression of Economist articles in general. They very rarely give you enough historical context (for me) to understand what they're talking about. It's why I ended my subscriptio…
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Here's a visualization of Paxos and MultiPaxos that seems to be based on Ben's work: https://visual.ofcoder.com/ .…