Best of Metadata in 2024

The DDIA book is a great textbook, because it is not written as a textbook, but more of a guidebook. Textbooks are generally bland and boring. Textbooks that are written by professors even more so, because thoser are often written to impress other professors and to flaunt academic flair. Few textbooks take teaching as the primary goal.DDIA book...

Daily batch processes introduce significant latency, since input changes reflected in the output only after a day. For fast paced business, this is too slow. To reduce delays, stream processing occurs more frequently (e.g., every second) or continuously, where events are handled as they happen. In stream processing, a record is typically called...

I have been impressed by the usability of TLA-Web from Will Schultz. Recently I have been using it for my TLA+ modeling of MongoDB catalog protocols internally, and found it very useful to explore and understand behavior. This got me thinking that TLA-Web would be really useful when exploring and understanding an unfamiliar spec I picked up on...

[trigger warning: blood]I had my first blood draw in 13 years yesterday. The lengthy gap is not random. My last blood draw had gone horribly wrong.The last timeThat previous visit had been for a fasting blood draw. Until then, I'd never had issues with blood draw before. Nurses always complimented me on my veins. One of them said that I had...

This paper from CIDR'21 introduces the Deferred Action Framework (DAF). This framework aims to unify transaction control and data structure maintenance under multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) database systems, particularly for complex maintenance tasks like garbage collection and index cleanup.In MVCC systems, transactions and data...