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[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

Remy's blog post is good, but I think it severely overstates the simplicity of WSI when compared to traditional SI.

What we would agree on: SSI is a little weird, and I see it mostly as a pragmatic historical artifact that the 'right solution'.

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Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation
https://t.co/wAuobHRzEy
Snapshot isolation (SI) is a popular approach to concurrency control in databases systems. It avoids many forms of anomalies, yet provides a high degree of concurrency, especially for read-heavy workloads.

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Notes on Paxos
https://t.co/w8I5Opps7u

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Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
https://t.co/LIw2KH32gv
Hegel is an attempt to bring the quality of property-based testing found in Hypothesis to every language.

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Testing for DR Failover Testing
https://t.co/31OeNcToUp
A simplified scenario is recovery from a full data centre failure. The Zendesk Chat backend infrastructure operates in a single data centre. The way to be sure that DR works is to perform a real failover.

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Top Five Scalability Patterns
https://t.co/BOzmjqWbSM

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Building A Billion User Load Balancer
https://t.co/i0vODvdLhz

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What Is Coordination, Really?
https://t.co/3meABIJDM5

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A Pretty-printer for TLA+
https://t.co/7Sft8ujQuN

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Distributed rate limiting of delivery attempts
https://t.co/zjLBqDLDN1

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Smarter Auto-Scaling for ClickHouse: The Two-Window Approach
https://t.co/rpEtwTZl7f

[Murat Demirbas (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas]

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SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems

https://t.co/NKDBqHIzJj

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The absolute beginners guide to databasemaxxing
https://t.co/2Bp18W5miy

[Evgenii Ivanov @eivanov89]

io_uring easily beats AIO and gets faster with every kernel — until both suddenly get 30% slower.
Join a database developer’s unexpected journey into the Linux kernel and IOMMU.
https://t.co/5pYl7WItPI

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RocksDB development finds a CPU bug
https://t.co/7rr4My3GIR

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Three Lenses on Coordination
https://t.co/oDBWwDpuEw

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Consensus Board Game
https://t.co/VOXUkbhyZW

[Almog Gavra @almoggavra]

@DistribSystems Thanks for sharing this! Happy to answer any questions

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the mathematics of compression in database systems
https://t.co/rM5fJEOvU6
I started thinking about compression when implementing prefix compression for SlateDB. When I ran benchmarks, I noticed that performance seemed "worse" despite improved compression ratios.