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Postgres Write ahead log
Notes on the Postgres Write ahead log
Latest Posts
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Open-Source Development - Strategies for getting involved
A guide to getting involved in open-source projects
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Practicing Pilates
Pilates has had a huge positive impact on my life
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Secondary Indexes
Notes on secondary indexes
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Range queries with Badger
Notes on range queries with Badger db
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Database Internals
A review of Database Internals by Alex Petrov
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Mountain Bike buying guide
A guide to buying a mountain bike
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Job interview questions
A list of questions I like to ask in interview meetings to try and get an understanding of the company, the culture and the team
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My favourite books to read to my kids
A list of books that my kids and I have enjoyed reading together
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Why I own two copies of Designing Data-Intensive Applications
A review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
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Log Structured Merge Tree
A review of Log Structured Merge Tree
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Column vs Row database
A comparison of column and row databases
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My Contributions
A list of my contributions to opensource projects
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Building Resilience by Design
A review of Resilience By Design by Ian Snape and Mike Weeks
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That Lewis Hamilton moment
A story about how I almost missed my flight to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary
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Transactions and Isolation levels
Notes on transactions and isolation levels
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I have more than one brain
A review of Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
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Strong Mind Climbing Course
A review of the Strong Mind Climbing Course
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FoundationDB
FoundationDB reference notes
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Ableton Note - Music ideas on the go
Ableton Note is a music-making app for iOS. It is the first mobile music app that I've actually enjoyed using. It feels like Ableton Live and yet also feels completely new.
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Building a faster CouchDB View Server
A project I’ve been working on over the last few months is implementing the new CouchDB javascript view server in Rust and then benchmarking how it compared to the official Cloudant View Server.
• Garren Smith
Building a faster CouchDB View Server
A project I’ve been working on over the last few months is implementing the new CouchDB javascript view server in Rust and then benchmarking how it compared to the official Cloudant View Server.