Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon(tratt.net)

71 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 23 comments

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

461 points by greghn 1 year ago | 103 comments

Blog post describing solving every Advent of Code 2024 puzzle in pure SQL, with a full recursive-query solution for one day shown as an example.

The Great CPU Stagnation(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

237 points by greghn 3 years ago | 197 comments

Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)(blog.davetcode.co.uk)

44 points by pantalaimon 3 years ago | 12 comments

Learning Software Architecture(matklad.github.io)

526 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 107 comments

Blog post by matklad, written as a reply to a researcher physicist, offering advice on learning software design and architecture skills, mainly by doing.