New post! I talk with Philippe Noël about ParadeDB, the experience of building as a PostgreSQL extension, pg_duckdb, pg_lakehouse, and more... materializedview.io/p/search-on-po…

Many of you know I've been angel investing for a while now. Today I'm excited to announce the next step: I've started Materialized View Capital. MVC is a micro VC fund that lets me continue doing what I enjoy, and take some friends along for the ride. materializedview.capital

I wrote a post on how data serialization and unproductive allocations can negatively impact your application. In it, I show how very simple tools and minor code changes can lead to great performance improvements. Read it here: blog.vbang.dk/2024/09/10/seb…

Came across this book today. While the CSAPP book has a couple of chapters on these topics, this book is completely devoted to just memory hierarchy and tries to provide a holistic overview of the system, including cache memory, RAM and spinning disks. It's a bit dated now and

We just released slatedb.io 0.2.0! 🎉 This release has: - in-memory block cache - on-disk object cache - garbage collection - compressed bloom filters Next up: admin CLI, range queries, and more cache improevements.

matklad will present TigerBeetle’s LSM-Forest compaction at P99CONF - storage determinism across replicas for faster recovery from disk faults - perfect pacing to solve write stalls for predictable P100s - and with static memory allocation p99conf.io/agenda/#thursd…

TigerBeetle’s LSM compaction is “the beating heart” of the database. Bringing together ideas at the intersection of global consensus protocol and local storage engine.

week 34, streaming kernel dev topic: debugging wild low level boot issues (pre-recorded since I'm on vacation, recap vid in thread) youtu.be/-hKU2UZ6Tvw

Seokjoo Cho (Seokjoo Cho) presents his work on building ScaleCache, a scalable page cache for multiple SSDs at @IllinoisCDS Systems Research Seminar. The work appears at EuroSys'24, dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Seokjoo Cho is a 1st-year PhD student advised by Aishwarya Ganesan and

New post is up! Next-gen infrastructure must support flexible deployments. Embedded, single-node, clustered, BYOC, SaaS, and self-managed. We're finally able to do this with one codebase. materializedview.io/p/the-new-era-…

Voltron layoffs, super unfortunate. You should hire Felipe.

This week on the unikernel application spotlight we boot up TigerBeetle a new fast OLTP db! Written in Zig it makes use of io_uring via Jens Axboe , O_DIRECT, a deterministic simulator and way more than I can put into this tweet - check it out. youtube.com/watch?v=OjhBNs…

Hoping to be more active here (and other platforms) this year. I spent most of 2024 working on my relationships (2023 was a roller coaster in that regard) and focusing exclusively on job (finally the product that I was working on got GA’ed in December 🥳).

As another update, considering to finally relocate to Bangalore this January, have a lot of things to figure out there though (renting a place, etc).

First post of the year! Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) got me thinking about why Confluent didn't build WarpStream. My conclusion: legacy infrastructure companies are going to have a tough time against cloud native, AI-enabled, post-ZIRP competitors. materializedview.io/p/infrastructu…

Organising the first meet-up of the year! Come folks see you there 🦀

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