eatonphil

Wow I didn't know this history about Akamai, thanks for mentioning, interesting as a former Linode guy and a fan of consistent hashing.

What is the reason or benefit of them being so secretive about this?

Guessing from the relevant masters thesis linked on his site and his time at materialize and tigerbeetle, Jamie's been working on databases for at least like 15 years? At least personally when Ja…

Many of these points are not compelling to me when 1) you can filter both rows and columns (in postgres logical replication anyway [0]) and 2) SQL views. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/…

You're arguing a strawman and I pointed at a specific example. Sticking with my specific example they could probe for this behavior or this OS version and crash immediately, telling the user to u…

Take a look at Alex Miller's diagrams for what function calls are actually doing on various systems. https://transactional.blog/how-to-learn/disk-io …

> Sqlite's test suite simulates just about every kind of failure you can imagine The page you link even mentions scenarios they know about that do happen and that they still assume won'…

To the contrary, when all the good New York meetups (Papers We Love, Linux User Group) didn't come back, and inspired by the continuously running Munich Database Meetup and TUMuchData, I started …

Is this sqlite built from source or a distro sqlite? It's possible the defaults differ with build settings.