Does YOUR university have legend David Beazley teaching programming languages this fall? Brown does! Here are co-instructors Dave and I with the Providence Drum Troupe in the background, celebrating his visit to Providence (I presume).

Ouch Yubikeys are cloneable. The technique can detect the key by curing how long a math calculation is taking. This allows to extract ECDSA key. This is a hardware issue from the Infineon chispet. All Yubikey sold before May this year are affected. arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

[new blog post] Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA): Chp 4. Encoding and Evolution (Part 2) muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/09/ddia-c…

These days, column stores are used everywhere for analytics workloads. But how good are they, really? I like this paper from the early days of column stores because it explains how column stores are so effective for analytics and why their benefits are hard to replicate with the

Here's Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in April 2022 signing Senate Bill 319, the law that allows anyone to carry a concealed handgun in public without first obtaining a license.

Unfriendly reminder that it was Georgia’s Rep. Andrew Clyde who handed out AR-15 pins to members of Congress to wear instead of working towards a safer climate for school children. thedailybeast.com/andrew-clyde-r…

I wonder where these kids get the idea that guns are the answer when you're angry about something. Here's the guy who represents the district where the Apalachee High School mass shooting took place today.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3XurUIl

After four years away from re:Invent, I'm doing three breakout sessions this year. On the architecture track, I'm going to be talking about the patterns behind resilient systems, simulation, and automated reasoning.

VLDB'24 Paper #1: Collecting training data for ML models with DBs is $$$/slow. @wanshenl's Boot framework uses PostgreSQL extensions to cutoff redundant queries. Offline training goes from weeks to hours! • Code: github.com/lmwnshn/boot • Paper: x.com/pvldb/status/1…

VLDB'24 Paper #2: This is our next gen PostgreSQL AI/ML tuner inspired by LLMs. Instead tuning a single part of DBMS, Proto-X holistically tunes everything: sys/table/index/query knobs, indexes, plans. • Code: github.com/17zhangw/protox • Paper: x.com/pvldb/status/1…

On the one hand, engineers hating on SQL is a tried and true tradition. On the other hand, engineers hating on SQL is a tried and true tradition.

[new blog post ] FlexiRaft: Flexible Quorums with Raft [in Meta's MySQL deployments] muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/09/flexir…

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a high school teacher at a school with a new “no phones in the classroom policy” and he said that he had to do something this week that he hasn’t had to do in years — ask students to stop talking.

"Human brain is programmed to save energy and go easy on itself, so it prefers shallow tasks (such as watching TV, web browsing, answering emails) and tries to avoid intense thinking sessions required for many creative tasks such as writing, thinking on a proof, and designing an

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-life… by Murat Demirbas (Distributolog) brings two great question about life (and some help to find part of the answers!)

Starting is half the battle, the other half is finding the right question to ask.