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LSM Trees Explained
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! Some people reached out after I published the Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine series to say they hadn’t gone through all eight posts, but they were curious about the core ideas. So I distilled everything...
AI for Production
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! These days, most posts about AI for production circle the same ideas: automated remediation, anomaly detection, alerting triage, etc. These are interesting starting points, but they share a common assumption: th...
Cache Use Cases Explained
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! Today, we discuss cache use cases. When we think about caching, it’s pretty frequent to focus on where it happens; for example, client-side, server-side, or in a CDN. Yet, there’s a more important question that...
How Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! On April 3, 2026, Salvatore Dipietro, an engineer at AWS, posted a patch to the Linux kernel mailing list. The reason: on a 96-vCPU Graviton4 machine running Linux 7.0, PostgreSQL throughput had dropped to rough...
The Reading Room is Open
We’re launching something new: The Reading Room, a book club right here in The Coder Cafe community.
We’re kicking things off with one of my all-time favorite technical book: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, since the second edition...
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