Did you know that a random SSD read is multiple orders of magnitude slower than a random memory read? I made a little visual that really drives the point home. This is why memory buffers and caches are so important, especially for I/O heavy workloads like databases.

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I have been cooking on the other platform. Still haven't made my mind about whether or not to cross-post

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Alexey Milovidov's ClickHouse talk at CWI DA's Database Day is wildly entertaining. I highly recommend watching his 20min talk. You can hear me yelling at him from the audience at 1:09, 2:40, and 7:33: youtu.be/jmVxfGEN0QQ

The 3rd Systems Distributed will be in... Amsterdam! June 19-20 systemsdistributed.com

Went down on a storage rabbit role in the past weeks 😁 github.com/vinimdocarmo/q…

PlanetScale now supports Postgres.

Some life updates: - I joined Nscale as a Senior GoLang Backend Engineer 👨🏻‍💻 - I got married this week ❤️

GPT-OSS-120B and GPT-OSS-20B are now live on Nscale as day-zero serverless endpoints. No orchestration required. Just build. You’ll also find Nscale listed as an inference provider on Hugging Face, making it even easier to get started wherever you build. At Nscale, we’re

🚀 A historic leap forward for UK AI infrastructure. Today, we’re announcing one of the UK’s largest AI infrastructure commitments—delivered in partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI, and @NVIDIA.