Notes on software development
- 2026-09-06: Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
- 2026-08-23: Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug
- 2026-08-16: The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6
- 2026-08-14: Hourly updates to jobs and the feed
- 2026-08-05: Touring The Consensus, six months in
- 2026-06-27: The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
- 2026-06-23: WasmGC in Wasmtime
- 2026-06-19: Observing Go's garbage collector, old and new
- 2026-06-15: Doing the rounds
- 2026-06-11: This week in infrastructure
- 2026-06-11: Of forks and clones and package management
- 2026-06-06: Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole
- 2026-05-20: Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium
- 2026-05-18: Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring
- 2026-05-02: Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB
- 2026-04-26: Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra
- 2026-04-16: Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)
- 2026-04-08: How jobs, events, and funding work on The Consensus
- 2026-04-03: Who contributed to DataFusion 53
- 2026-03-29: Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report
- 2026-03-19: Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io
- 2026-03-19: A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB
- 2026-03-12: Mojo's not (yet) Python
- 2026-03-02: Source-available projects and their AI contribution policies
- 2026-02-26: Open Source Contributor Spotlight: Kosta Tarasov and DataFusion
- 2026-02-25: I started a software research company
- 2026-02-22: We have pgvector at home
- 2026-02-15: Generating vector embeddings for semantic search locally
- 2026-02-08: Paths of MySQL, vector search edition
- 2026-02-02: Companies behind Postgres 18 development
- 2026-01-19: LLMs and your career
- 2026-01-03: Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
- 2025-12-31: Year in community
- 2025-12-23: Year in books
- 2025-11-26: Is psql's scripting language Turing complete? Or: fibonacci in psql
- 2025-11-03: An individual can change an organization
- 2025-10-24: Transaction pooling for Postgres with pgcat
- 2025-09-15: In response to a developer asking about systems
- 2025-09-10: A simple clustering and replication solution for Postgres
- 2025-09-04: Analytics query goes 6x faster with EDB Postgres Distributed's new analytics engine
- 2025-08-14: Set up a single-node EDB Postgres Distributed cluster on Ubuntu
- 2025-08-09: What even is distributed systems
- 2025-07-31: Stack traces for Postgres errors with backtrace_functions
- 2025-06-28: Want to meet people, try charging them for it?
- 2025-06-21: Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, jemalloc edition
- 2025-05-26: Cheerleading
- 2025-05-22: Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, heaptrack edition
- 2025-04-22: Screw your title
- 2025-04-20: Transactions are a protocol
- 2025-03-27: Things that go wrong with disk IO
- 2025-03-25: Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging
- 2025-02-28: Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed
- 2025-02-15: From web developer to database developer in 10 years
- 2025-01-29: Edit for clarity
- 2025-01-25: An explosion of transitive dependencies
- 2025-01-22: Embedding Python in Rust (for tests)
- 2025-01-17: Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
- 2024-12-31: How I run a coffee club
- 2024-12-26: Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban
- 2024-11-28: 1 million page views
- 2024-11-06: Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch
- 2024-11-05: Effective unemployment and social media
- 2024-10-31: Checking linearizability in Go
- 2024-10-08: Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton
- 2024-09-29: Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)
- 2024-09-23: Be someone who does things
- 2024-08-24: Obsession
- 2024-08-20: What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?
- 2024-07-30: Delightful, production-grade replication for Postgres
- 2024-07-07: A reawakening of systems programming meetups
- 2024-07-01: A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
- 2024-06-17: The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG?
- 2024-06-14: Confusion is a muse
- 2024-05-30: How I run a software book club
- 2024-05-16: Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
- 2024-04-10: What makes a great technical blog
- 2024-04-05: A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research
- 2024-03-27: Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
- 2024-03-15: Zig, Rust, and other languages
- 2024-03-11: First month on a database team
- 2024-02-08: An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems
- 2024-01-09: Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB
- 2023-12-27: Make your own way
- 2023-11-19: Exploring a Postgres query plan
- 2023-11-01: Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method
- 2023-10-19: io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk
- 2023-10-05: Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads
- 2023-10-01: Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace
- 2023-09-21: How do databases execute expressions?
- 2023-09-04: Eight years of organizing tech meetups
- 2023-08-15: Thinking about functional programming
- 2023-07-11: We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it
- 2023-06-19: Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS
- 2023-05-25: Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go
- 2023-05-16: Two books I recommend to developers
- 2023-05-16: My favorite software subreddits
- 2023-03-21: Errors and Zig
- 2023-02-18: Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney
- 2023-01-30: Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go
- 2023-01-23: An effective product manager
- 2023-01-12: The year in books: 2022
- 2023-01-05: Favorite compiler and interpreter resources
- 2023-01-04: General book recommendations
- 2023-01-01: In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
- 2022-12-01: Is it worth writing about?
- 2022-11-23: A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue
- 2022-11-13: Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB
- 2022-10-30: A minimal RocksDB example with Zig
- 2022-10-12: A database without dynamic memory allocation
- 2022-09-17: A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library
- 2022-08-23: What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB?
- 2022-08-21: SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
- 2022-07-25: Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions
- 2022-07-10: Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling
- 2022-06-10: One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
- 2022-05-17: Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept
- 2022-05-12: SQLite in Go, with and without cgo
- 2022-04-26: HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole
- 2022-04-17: Interview With Phil of DataStation
- 2022-04-11: Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages
- 2022-03-28: Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes
- 2022-03-03: Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects
- 2022-02-20: SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
- 2022-02-08: The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
- 2022-01-31: How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP
- 2022-01-23: Bootloader basics
- 2022-01-11: dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.
- 2022-01-06: Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing
- 2022-01-05: The year in books: 11 to recommend in 2021
- 2021-12-28: Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
- 2021-12-16: Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions
- 2021-11-23: Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping
- 2021-11-13: Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects
- 2021-10-31: Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing
- 2021-10-29: Exploring PL/pgSQL part two: implementing a Forth-like interpreter
- 2021-10-24: Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON
- 2021-10-18: Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures
- 2021-10-13: Notes on running Electron
- 2021-09-21: Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
- 2021-08-26: Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
- 2021-08-21: Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
- 2021-08-05: Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
- 2021-07-15: Writing an efficient object previewer for JavaScript
- 2021-07-08: React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch
- 2021-06-25: Controlled HTML select element in React has weird default UX
- 2021-06-22: Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently
- 2021-06-17: Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite
- 2021-06-04: Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021
- 2021-05-23: Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
- 2021-04-04: Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx
- 2021-03-07: How to get better at recursion
- 2021-01-23: Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET
- 2020-12-27: The year in books: 20 to recommend in 2020
- 2020-12-20: Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker
- 2020-11-26: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary
- 2020-11-11: The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise
- 2020-10-25: Standard ML in 2020
- 2020-09-07: The case for comments in code
- 2020-08-16: Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci
- 2020-07-25: A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry
- 2020-06-14: Generating a full-stack application from a database
- 2020-06-06: Generating a REST API from a database
- 2020-05-16: RFCs and asynchronous-first culture
- 2020-05-10: Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver
- 2020-05-01: Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes
- 2020-04-12: Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters
- 2020-04-04: Studying foreign languages with inbox zero
- 2020-03-18: Reviewing the Surface Book 2
- 2020-03-06: Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
- 2020-02-01: A minimal REST API in Java
- 2019-12-08: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade
- 2019-11-30: Confusion and disengagement in meetings
- 2019-10-12: Interpreting Go
- 2019-09-30: Administering Kubernetes is hard
- 2019-08-31: Unit testing C code with gtest
- 2019-07-20: Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 2. system calls
- 2019-06-22: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
- 2019-05-21: Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine
- 2019-05-14: Tail call elimination
- 2019-05-04: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
- 2019-04-30: Responsibility and ownership
- 2019-04-14: Interpreting TypeScript
- 2019-04-06: Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets
- 2019-03-27: Writing a simple JSON path parser
- 2019-03-10: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM
- 2019-02-26: AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8
- 2019-01-20: Windows
- 2019-01-20: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables
- 2018-11-20: Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
- 2018-10-20: On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul
- 2018-09-26: Why (and how) to read books
- 2018-09-02: Compiling dynamic programming languages
- 2018-08-04: btest: a language agnostic test runner
- 2018-05-18: Writing to be read
- 2018-05-06: Writing a simple JSON parser
- 2018-04-28: Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment
- 2018-03-25: Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp
- 2018-03-05: Starting a minimal Common Lisp project
- 2018-01-20: Interview with the D Language Blog: BSDScheme
- 2018-01-10: First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter
- 2017-03-11: Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes
- 2016-12-29: Walking through a basic Racket web service
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