A technical summary and analysis of the Detock research paper on high-performance, multi-region database transactions with strict serializability.
A review of a VLDB paper proposing a 'Timestamp as a Service' as a fault-tolerant alternative to traditional timestamp oracles in distributed databases.
A survey of how distributed databases handle secondary indexes, comparing strategies in DynamoDB, MongoDB, Yugabyte, and others.
A software engineer shares strategies for onboarding to a new database team, focusing on build processes, documentation, and initial code contributions.
The author details their migration from a Postgres cluster to a distributed SQLite setup using LiteFS for their personal website.
Analyzes the limited practical applications of blockchain technology, arguing it's not a general-purpose solution and is inefficient compared to centralized databases.
A tutorial on building a distributed PostgreSQL proof-of-concept using external libraries for SQL parsing, wire protocol, Raft consensus, and storage.
