whargarbl

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whargarbl··on Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.

whargarbl··on Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol

As an aside, can somebody explain the constraints FoundationDB puts on replica distance?

whargarbl··on Ask HN: How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?

FaunaDB maybe for the database layer: https://fauna.com/blog/introducing-faunadb-serverless-cloud-...

whargarbl··on Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale

"The current public version of Spanner does not support client-side interactive transactions either."

Did not know that...why?

whargarbl··on A database built like an operating system: the architecture of FaunaDB

"FaunaDB implements a process scheduler that dynamically allocates resources and enforces quality of service...Execution proceeds via cooperative multitasking."

Just like Windows 95! I don't think I've ever seen a database do this. Apparently it operates per-query or at least per application. Operating system seems right; this is a long paper.

whargarbl··on Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku

Post says the driver was benched at 25k rps. But yeah that C implementation sucks.

whargarbl··on Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku

AFAIK the issue is the way they listen() to the socket, as well as whether the accept is concurrent in some way.

whargarbl··on Cassandra 0.5 released

You didn't strace it to see what was going on?