transactional.blog

2023-05-07

How to Learn: Consensus

Paxos, Raft, and all their flavors, variations, and alternatives.

2023-05-06

RDMA: Soft-RoCE Requires a Specific IPv6 Address

2022-12-16

dbdiag: ophistory

Anouncing thisismiller/dbdiagGitHub's ophistory script, a diagram as text tool to allow visualizing the concurrent executions of operations.

2022-06-05

Darwin’s Deceptive Durability

A reminder that macOS does not respect the usual ways of making data durable on disk.

2022-03-21

A Survey of Database TLS Implementations

A popularity-based sampling of which databases are using which TLS implementations.

2021-12-20

Simulation Testing: BUGGIFY

When application code provides high-level fault injection points, fuzzing becomes significantly more effective.