Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL

These are some of the most influential (mostly due to experience or expertise) and active folks (I actually see them attend events) in the NYC infrastructure scene (that I have a personal connection to). If you're running a dinner or are just looking to meet interesting people in NYC in software infrastructure, consider this list and feel free to...

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Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or at least feels) worse each time you say so. But there is at least...

You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can prove linearizability. They can only help you build confidence that you aren't...

Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a contender too, and is similar in many ways. But since Delta Lake is simpler (simple != better)...