DuckDB was recently covered in Andy Pavlo (@[email protected])'s Advanced Database Systems course at CMU. The lecture covers DuckDB's history, internals, and integration with other systems.

Slides: 15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2024/sli…
Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=4iD4h4…

systemd Rolling Out 'run0' As sudo Alternative - Phoronix phoronix.com/news/systemd-r…

[Nightly Blog] Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/04/19/fir…

The Apache DataFusion Comet ☄️project will be hosting regular (bi-weekly) meetings starting this Wednesday, May 1st.

This is a good opportunity to chat with some of the core contributors.

Details and calendar invite are in the following Google doc:
docs.google.com/document/d/1NB…

Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
postgres.ai/blog/20220525-…
Hacker News discussion:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401867…

> Leader or Majority: Why have one when you can have both?
> Improving Read Scalability in Raft-like consensus protocols

Good paper on read leases for Raft.

usenix.org/system/files/c…

Stumbled across a great performance comparison of popular serverless SQL database providers (PlanetScale, Neon - Serverless Postgres, Turso) by Capaj

After some notable scalps, England’s unseeded Jonah Bryant avenged his recent British Junior Open BU19 final defeat to beat Egypt’s Mohamed Zakaria & claim his 6th & biggest Tour title at PSA Challenger Tour Irish Open in Dublin squashinfo.com/events/10380

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Google lays off its entire Python team: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401711…

Holy... good lord.
IP over Thunderbolt 4 between two Mac Minis.

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New blog post, looking at the great new paper from the Amazon MemoryDB folks: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/2… Much of the discussion on distributed systems is about scalability, but this paper shows how availability, durability, cost, and performance are equally important.

Here's also our postmortem of 3 years of Rust gamedev, and why we're leaving Rust

loglog.games/blog/leaving-r…

#rustgamedev #rustlang

Popular opinion:
Clippy, the Rust linter, is amazing. Its excellent engineering (and technical documentation) results in next-level developer experience.

Voilà voilà

MariaDB people (Jonah H. Harris Mason Sharp) are building NEXTGRES as a PG extension that makes PG work with MySQL's protocol and dialect. 🤯

nextgres.com/res/20240419-T…

It's official. HashiCorp joins IBM.

QEMU 9.0 released lwn.net/Articles/97100…

Albert, l'IA souveraine française, dépose son tout premier préavis de grève legorafi.fr/2024/04/24/alb…

Thrilled to announce that our paper on Sieve, a novel cache eviction algorithm, won USENIX NSDI 2024 Community Best Paper Award! Congratulations to Yazhuo & Juncheng Yang, brilliant students who co-led this work.
Joint work with Yazhuo, Juncheng Yang, Yao Yue 岳峣, Ymir Vigfusson

I just published 'Redwood’s memory tuning in #FoundationDB '
pierrezemb.fr/posts/redwood-…