Articles by eatonphil
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Smart Files (theolincke.com)

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Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra (theconsensus.dev)

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GraalVM JavaScript Sandboxing (graalvm.org)

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Xata OSS: Postgres platform with branching, now Apache 2.0 (xata.io)

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Faith-based computing versus the unnatural science (acm.org)

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I quit: the difference in difficulty between Japanese and Chinese is ridiculous (reddit.com)

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The Origins of GPU Computing (acm.org)

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New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law (nm.us)

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More tools for testing SQL dialects (buttondown.com/jaffray)

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Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes (nytimes.com)

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Generating universes within universes with a single seed (andrewheiss.com)

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Why are some startups ignoring the SEC? (2024) (lehigh.edu)

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Maine set to become first state with data center ban (cnbc.com)

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Who Contributed to DataFusion 53 (theconsensus.dev)

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Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report (theconsensus.dev)

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Software You Can Love 2026 tickets are on sale (mattnite.net)

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Every Query Gets a Receipt (theconsensus.dev)

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Fast WHATWG spec compliant URL library written in Go (github.com/ada-url)

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Most GPU Clusters Are Economically Misconfigured (zymtrace.com)

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Situating Virginia's Data Center Alley in a New Era of Tech Power (datasociety.net)

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Mojo's Not (Yet) Python (theconsensus.dev)

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Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon (fb.com)

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Finding the Best Place to Work: A Look at Careers at More Than 1,700 Companies (wsj.com)

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RocksDB development finds a CPU bug (rocksdb.org)

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Simulating Multi-Table Contention in Catalog Formats (cdouglas.github.io)

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Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley (ft.com)

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Graph over Tables: Why We Built a Context Graph Instead of a CMDB (stlabs.com)

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AI Security Startup Xbow Valued at More Than $1B (bloomberg.com)

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Border0 Is Joining Tailscale (tailscale.com)

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Serenely Fast I/O Buffer (With Benchmarks) (serenedb.com)

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A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB (theconsensus.dev)

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Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io (theconsensus.dev)

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Arizona Charges Kalshi with Illegal Gambling Operation (bloomberg.com)

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How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1M Concurrent Tasks? (2023) (pkolaczk.github.io)

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The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is simple (2021) (mydistributed.systems)

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Founder Salary Report 2025 (pilot.com)

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Et tu, S&P 500? The SpaceX IPO gamesmanship (ft.com)

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Nscale Raises $2B in Series C – The Largest in European History (nscale.com)

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Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)

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Scanner Raises Series A Led by Sequoia Capital (scanner.dev)

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Depot Raised a $10M Series A (depot.dev)

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TLA+ as a Design Accelerator: Lessons from the Industry (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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Simulating Catalog and Table Conflicts in Iceberg (cdouglas.github.io)

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Rewriting Our Database in Rust (medium.com/airtable-eng)

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70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)

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The disappearing Form D (2018) (techcrunch.com)

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Temporal Raises $300M Series D to Make Agentic AI Real for Companies (temporal.io)

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I Joined the MariaDB Foundation (lefred.be)

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GGML GGUF File Format Vulnerabilities (databricks.com)

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Drive the 'ice road', Estonians told – just don't fasten your seatbelt (theguardian.com)

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A stack-buffer-overflow exercise with AddressSanitizer and PostgreSQL (enterprisedb.com)

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Claude and I have a proper first date (h4x0r.org)

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Railway raises $100M Series B (railway.com)

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Writing a TSDB from Scratch in Go (docs.google.com)

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Trust AI, but Verify (jordivillar.com)

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In Memory of Frank Gehry (systemsapproach.org)

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Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml (github.com/avsm)

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Notes on Afghanistan (mattlakeman.org)

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Book Club (eatonphil.com)

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Minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things (github.com/alpha-convert)

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Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join Correspondence (finnvolkel.com)

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India overtakes Japan as 4th-largest economy, report says (dw.com)

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Amtrak: A Year of Records (amtrak.com)

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Remembering the Night Boats (scenichudson.org)

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Inlining (buttondown.com/jaffray)

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How We Optimize RocksDB in TiKV – Write Batch Optimization (medium.com/siddontang)

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62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line (ny1.com)

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How Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society (economist.com)

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Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries (github.com/crystallinecore)

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Nippon Steel's Acquisition of US Steel: A $15B Deal (imaa-institute.org)

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How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age (theconversation.com)

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[flagged] Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees (twitter.com/gothburz)

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Size of Life (neal.fun)

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Does Pittsburgh Have More Bridges Than Any Other City? (pittsburghmagazine.com)

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Columns limit in PostgreSQL – how many columns fit into a table (scherbaum.la)

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Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO (cnn.com)

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President Donald Trump Appears to Approve Kei Cars for the USA (roadandtrack.com)

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Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)

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Cool Facilities – The David Taylor Model Basin (navalgazing.net)

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Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot (stanford.edu)

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Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) (h4x0r.org)

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Debugging processes across container boundaries on Kubernetes (enterprisedb.com)

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Malaysia: Truly Asia (noahpinion.blog)

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A resilient Chord implementation in Go (github.com/ollelogdahl)

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Canada Set to Side with China on EVs (thewirechina.com)

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Sharon Osberg, the woman who teaches Warren Buffett and Bill Gates bridge (afr.com)

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Ordering Types in SQL (buttondown.com/jaffray)

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JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs (pinaraf.info)

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Network Storage and Scaling Characteristics of a Distributed Filesystem (maknee.github.io)

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They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition (platformonomics.com)

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The journey to virtual generated columns (enterprisedb.com)

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The Invisible Curriculum of Research (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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One Year of PostgreSQL Hacking Workshops (rhaas.blogspot.com)

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China Pushes Trump to Drop Curbs as It Dangles Investment Pledge (bloomberg.com)

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F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf] (cmu.edu)

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Autonomous Testing of Etcd's Robustness (cncf.io)

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Seven Years of Firecracker (brooker.co.za)

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Infinite Relations (buttondown.com/jaffray)

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Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (wikipedia.org)

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Optimizing our way through Metroid (antithesis.com)