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almog gavraa publication for engineers curious about online database systems
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the mathematics of multi-tenancy
There was an interesting thread on X the other day where an S3 customer’s bucket migration resulted in a swarm of 503 errors coming from S3. The root cause came down to the way S3 prevents users from explicitly defining partitions. That dec...
protocols for transactional usage of object storage
This edition of Bits & Pages covers the design patterns that allow systems to use Object Storage correctly for online transactional (OLTP) use cases.
This blog is motivated by SlateDB’s transactional write module, which implements some of...
how metrics are stored and queried
I’ve recently been spending my time hacking on an MIT-licensed, object store native timeseries database, and I found the domain fascinating enough to warrant a post about how metrics are stored and retrieved in databases.
As always, let’s...
the broken economics of databases
The database industry has a strange economic problem, and this post attempts to lay out the foundation for why that’s the case. It will cover some concepts from economics 101 and hopefully answer the question “why is it so expensive to pay...
the mathematics of compression in database systems
This post is a little departure from our usual architecture discussions, but I promise it is worth understanding if you care about your database performance.
I started thinking about compression when implementing prefix compression for Sl...
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