iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New rule on /r/DatabaseDevelopment

1 Keep it civil
2 Keep it on topic (database internals, not database usage)
3 No release posts
4 No third-party recruiting posts
5 No first-party benchmark posts
6 No AI prose
If you as a human cannot be bothered to write the prose, please do not expect humans to be bothered to read it.

Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

 Class of 2018. Returned my badge and laptop after 8+ years. Grateful for everything I learned, and excited for what comes next.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Why do people look so weird at me when I wear this T Shirt? Since when did strict serializability become controversial?

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think I will need to add a footnote for this one in the second edition.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I don’t know anything about database internals ii just yet but I know if it happens the code will be zig.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I chatted with Branimir Lambov from IBM on a decade of contributing to Cassandra, including his recent work to replace the Skiplist in Cassandra's LSM tree with a Trie. (no paywall) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26...

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Antithesis @antithesis.com · 23/04/2026

Up next, Peter Alvaro on ladders, distributed systems, and… Zeno?

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you’re only going to one conference this year, make it systems distributed!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If I you like deep technical content, I highly recommend subscribing to The Consensus, or taking a stab at writing. Or both!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If hire in London and want to push frontiers of testing check this role out!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

LLMs can trigger a potentially dangerous combination of factors: when person didn’t think code through enough to make it good, but make them feel affinity with the code and defend it as if they actually authored it.

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 13/03/2026

One more time — I'm looking for new consulting clients. Some ways I can help: ∙ Fractional tech leadership (tackling "leadership debt" in small eng orgs) ∙ Full-stack, 0 to 1 projects ∙ Language design & impl (eg with @ohmjs.org) ∙ JavaScript/TypeScript perf (🔁 appreciated)

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Finally got my copy of DDIA \o/ thanks @martin.kleppmann.com and @chris.blue! And for anyone who hasn’t yet read it at least 4 time, grab your copy!

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The very first of The Consensus Standard just went out. This is a monthly newsletter for folks subscribing at the Standard Subscription tier. A collection of 1) articles written for The Consensus, 2) interesting jobs, 3) funding announcements, and 4) external articles I enjoyed.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Munich Database Meetup night! ClickHouse full-text search, and CRDTs over Painful Networks by folks from Helsing, hosted by codecentric.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 20/10/2025

At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I can’t help it but completely stop taking anything the person wrote seriously if it feels like they used an LLM in an email. I can understand if one would check tone or spellcheck, but I feel like writing should still be done by a human. Am I old fashioned here?

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

After twitter turned into whatever it has turned into I kept hoping for a while that it’ll somehow recover, and posting both there and on BlueSky felt cumbersome. I don’t have twitter on my phone anymore, so let’s see if BlueSky can be as good as old twitter.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 18/09/2025

The South Bay Systems talk series is back on Oct 2nd. @codedrift.social will talk about the history and novel use cases of WebAssembly. Perfect timing too: Wasm 3.0 just released, and it is turning 10 this year. Huge thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting! Register here: luma.com/p3mibf27

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South Bay Systems: WebAssembly Is Cool! (finally!) · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we'll have Jakob Heuser delivering an expanded version of his QCon 2024 lightning talk "WebAssembly…

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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 13/09/2025

Abe Ratnofsky presenting "What's New in CEP-45: Mutation Tracking and Reconciliation" More info about this CEP here: cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 13/09/2025

Ariel Weisberg presenting "Living with Accord"

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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 13/09/2025

@taco.cat presenting "Witness Replicas: Reducing Storage Costs in Apache Cassandra" Saving 1/3 on storage, cpu and IO, is some serious spare change.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Heading back home from Community over Code. So much new stuff this year in Cassandra: Mutation Tracking, Witness Replicas, Auto Repair, a bunch of new Analytics related work, and, of course, Accord!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Cassandra Team at Apple is searching for a fresh grad / person early in their career to join our ranks in SF/Bay Area! Come work on super interesting problems with world class team. Help us build better Cassandra! Ping me if you’re interested! jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

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Software Engineer, ASE Cassandra Storage - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Software Engineer, ASE Cassandra Storage job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Reading Sunk Works after reading the Qualcomm Equation, and can’t help but wonder what happened to engineering. I can think of 2 companies in the entire industry (which will remain unnamed) that are delivering projects of immense complexity with tiny resources, while others are lost in processes.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Folks on database internals discord are voting for the next book. It’s a perfect time to join. This will be the third book we will be reading together, after Transaction Processing, and DDIA. discord.gg/GmchY45BbS

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decorative gourd @taco.cat · 17/12/2024

This bears out in practice, yep. But it may be more attributable to compaction strategies that limit the number of SSTables that may contain a key (e.g. leveled) and keeping up with compaction backlog. Most Cassandra deployments using LCS and default blooms maintain an SSTable-per-read count of 1.

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JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I don't know how they have come to be regarded but I remember Google's Maglev and Meta's Katran & I remember enjoying the papers surrounding them. github.com/facebookincu...

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GitHub - facebookincubator/katran: A high performance layer 4 load balancer

A high performance layer 4 load balancer. Contribute to facebookincubator/katran development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Do you know any load-balancing papers? Please send them my way!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It's never too late to organize your huge pile of papers. Found 549 papers, only 156 of which had highlights or notes. However about 350 were pre-processed/marked. I kept better notes. Anyone got ideas about how to attach notes to PDFs?

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A full house at AWS, Munich Database Meetup in full swing!

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Thanks to fine folks from TUMuchData, Munich Database Meetup now has its own logo and website! munichdatabases.xyz

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Munich Database Meetup

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Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com · 27/10/2024

Hello 🦋 Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed! go.bsky.app/U1hZhum

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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

So folks, what are the best starting packs around this platform?

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