Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar
@migue.bsky.social
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How we optimize RocksDB in TiKV (Part 1) : The Battle Against the DB Mutex medium.com/@siddontang/...
How we optimize RocksDB in TiKV (Part 1) — The Battle Against the DB Mutex
When we started building TiKV nine years ago, we chose RocksDB as our storage engine. And for good reasons — it’s a highly efficient…
medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
How we optimize RocksDB in TiKV (Part 1) : The Battle Against the DB Mutex medium.com/@siddontang/...
Lessons learnt from building a L4 load balancing service
SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa - HyperRouter: Lessons Learnt from Building an L4 Load...
HyperRouter: Lessons Learnt from Building an L4 Load Balancing ServiceLinhua Tang and Jayaganesh Kalyanasundaram, Huawei Ireland Research CenterThis talk sha...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lessons learnt from building a L4 load balancing service
Mooncake: Real-Time Apache Iceberg Without Compromise
Mooncake: Real-Time Apache Iceberg Without Compromise (Cheng Chen)
CMU Database Group - Future Data Systems Seminar Series (Fall 2025)Speaker: Cheng Chen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheng-ch/)November 10, 2025https://db.cs....
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November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Mooncake: Real-Time Apache Iceberg Without Compromise
Amazon DSQL talk
Amazon DSQL talk by Mark Brooker.
Mark Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, discusses Aurora DSQL, a new global, serverless, scalable relational database system developed at AWS. He...
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Amazon DSQL talk
I’ve decided to start collecting some of the random things I usually post here, so they’re easier to find later: migue.github.io/posts/2025-1...
Some interesting resources
A small collection of random things I’ve found interesting during the last few weeks. Each section includes a short note about the content (nothing more). You’ll find books, papers, articles, and…
migue.github.io
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I’ve decided to start collecting some of the random things I usually post here, so they’re easier to find later: migue.github.io/posts/2025-1...
Async QUIC and HTTP:3 made easy- tokio-quiche is now open-source blog.cloudflare.com/async-quic-a...
Async QUIC and HTTP:3 made easy- tokio-quiche is now open-source
We’re excited to announce the open sourcing of tokio-quiche, our async QUIC library built on quiche and tokio. Relied upon in our services such as iCloud Private Relay and our next-generation…
blog.cloudflare.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Async QUIC and HTTP:3 made easy- tokio-quiche is now open-source blog.cloudflare.com/async-quic-a...
How To Scale Your Model. A Systems View of LLMs on TPU
How To Scale Your Model
Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and...
jax-ml.github.io
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How To Scale Your Model. A Systems View of LLMs on TPU
Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
www.vldb.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
TLA+ Modeling of AWS outage DNS race condition muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/11/tla-...
TLA+ Modeling of AWS outage DNS race condition
On Oct 19–20, 2025, AWS’s N. Virginia region suffered a major DynamoDB outage triggered by a DNS automation defect that broke endpoint resol...
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
TLA+ Modeling of AWS outage DNS race condition muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/11/tla-...
MariaDB and PostgreSQL: A technical DeepDive into how they differ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_5A...
MariaDB and PostgreSQL - A technical DeepDive into how they differ
MariaDB vs PostgreSQL: Technical Deep Dive | Architecture, Performance & Design Trade-offs
Choosing between MariaDB and PostgreSQL for your next project? This comprehensive technical deep dive…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
MariaDB and PostgreSQL: A technical DeepDive into how they differ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_5A...
To Lock or Not: MongoDB’s Lock-Free B-Tree Unlocks Throughput
To Lock or Not: MongoDB’s Lock-Free B-Tree Unlocks Throughput
Learn how MongoDB's WiredTiger lock-free B+tree, using hazard pointers and skip lists, boosts read and write throughput for better hardware utilization.
www.mongodb.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
To Lock or Not: MongoDB’s Lock-Free B-Tree Unlocks Throughput
Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects xavierleroy.org/control-stru...
Control structures in programming languages
Xavier Leroy
xavierleroy.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects xavierleroy.org/control-stru...
DSQL: Simplifying Architectures
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/02/thinking-dsql.html
brooker.co.za
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
DSQL: Simplifying Architectures
Beyond the Bits: Cultivating Minds and Memory Systems
LinkedIn Pulse
www.linkedin.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Beyond the Bits: Cultivating Minds and Memory Systems
"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful www.morling.dev/blog/you-don...
"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful
Looking to make it to the front page of HackerNews? Then writing a post arguing that "Postgres is enough", or why "you don’t need Kafka at your scale" is a pretty failsafe way of achieving exactly that....
www.morling.dev
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful www.morling.dev/blog/you-don...
How Memory Maps (mmap) Deliver 25x Faster File Access in Go
How Memory Maps (mmap) Deliver 25x Faster File Access in Go
Learn how memory maps (mmap) accelerate file I/O, reduce latency, and improve app performance in Unix and Go with real-world benchmarks.
info.varnish-software.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How Memory Maps (mmap) Deliver 25x Faster File Access in Go
Advanced algorithms
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/aroeyskoe/AA23_materials/AAscript.pdf
people.inf.ethz.ch
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Advanced algorithms
Down with template (or not)!
Down with template (or not)!
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools...
cedardb.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Down with template (or not)!
Zig's New Async I/O
Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version) - Andrew Kelley
Example 0
andrewkelley.me
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Zig's New Async I/O
Fluid Storage: Forkable, Ephemeral, and Durable Infrastructure for the Age of Agents www.tigerdata.com/blog/fluid-s...
Fluid Storage: Forkable, Ephemeral, and Durable Infrastructure for the Age of Agents | Tiger Data
Fluid Storage reimagines block storage like EBS with zero-copy forks, true elasticity, and sync replication. Built for the age of agents. Now in Tiger Cloud free tier.
www.tigerdata.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Fluid Storage: Forkable, Ephemeral, and Durable Infrastructure for the Age of Agents www.tigerdata.com/blog/fluid-s...
Storage Metadata for Modern Cloud Databases www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAB...
Storage Metadata for Modern Cloud Databases (Joyo Victor)
CMU Database Group - Future Data Systems Seminar Series (Fall 2025)
Speaker: Joyo Victor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyo-victor-683432173/)
October 27,…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Storage Metadata for Modern Cloud Databases www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAB...
So long, and thanks for all the fish: how to escape the Linux networking stack
So long, and thanks for all the fish- how to escape the Linux networking stack
Many products at Cloudflare aren’t possible without pushing the limits of network hardware and software to deliver improved performance, increased efficiency, or novel capabilities such as soft-unicast,...
blog.cloudflare.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So long, and thanks for all the fish: how to escape the Linux networking stack
Machine Learning Systems. Principles and Practices of Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems
ML Systems Textbook
On this page
www.mlsysbook.ai
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Machine Learning Systems. Principles and Practices of Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems
The Tale of Taming TigerBeetle's Tail Latency
The Tale of Taming TigerBeetle's Tail Latency
TigerBeetle reduced tail latency with optimized Radix Sort and k-way merge via algorithm engineering.
www.p99conf.io
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The Tale of Taming TigerBeetle's Tail Latency
Exploring the Evolving File Format Landscape in AI Era: Parquet, Lance, Nimble and Vortex And What It Means for Apache Iceberg
Exploring the Evolving File Format Landscape in AI Era: Parquet, Lance, Nimble and Vortex And What It Means for Apache Iceberg | Dremio
Formats like Lance, Nimble, and Vortex show that innovation is accelerating. Each one introduces new ideas about how to structure, index, and access data. But none of them exist in isolation. They need...
www.dremio.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exploring the Evolving File Format Landscape in AI Era: Parquet, Lance, Nimble and Vortex And What It Means for Apache Iceberg