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I get what you, and other commenters here, are going for. But getting speakers is still hard in the first place. And as I mentioned in the post, I see high quality talks as 100% marketing. They'r…

I love the reference to the ACIDRain paper in there. > They analyzed “12 popular self-hosted eCommenrce applications written in four languages and deployed on over 2M websites” and identified and …

The article mentions it, but I only learned recently that Bolivia did not used to be landlocked. Chile took Bolivia's coastline somewhat recently (late 1800s/early 1900s). > The dispute b…

That's fair. In the post I did mention disk redundancy (and I guess I only implied recovery) as one additional level for safety. Which I think is what you're getting at too.

Thanks Adam! I think torn writes would still be caught via checksums, no? Although that may be later than you'd wish. I'm not confident but from reading that page it seems that for Postgres …

Good catch! That was a think-o. I've swapped it around so that semaphores are signalled after the fsync.

One of the interesting things I came up against while writing this post was the pretty common misconception that SQLite and Postgres will validate your data with checksums [0]. SQLite leaves this to a…

Thank you for the recommendation! That book looks great. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475762.Endless_Frontier …

I've been reading the mentioned Bush memoir "Pieces of the Action" and it's pretty good. Stories about engineering and organizational politics. As good as any business classic (e.g…

Original article is from 2021 but it's been updated this year.