Distributed Bytes

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'.

Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation remy.wang/blog/si.html 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.

Notes on Paxos matklad.github.io/2020/11/01/not…

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis antithesis.com/blog/2026/hege… Hegel is an attempt to bring the quality of property-based testing found in Hypothesis to every language.

Testing for DR Failover Testing usenix.org/conference/sre… 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.

Top Five Scalability Patterns f5.com/company/blog/t…

Building A Billion User Load Balancer usenix.org/conference/sre…

What Is Coordination, Really? jhellerstein.github.io/blog/cost-of-c…

A Pretty-printer for TLA+ blog.fponzi.me/2026-03-30-a-p…

Distributed rate limiting of delivery attempts blog.allegro.tech/2017/04/hermes…

Smarter Auto-Scaling for ClickHouse: The Two-Window Approach clickhouse.com/blog/smarter-a…

[new blog post] SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sysmob…

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The absolute beginners guide to databasemaxxing pthorpe92.dev/databasemaxxin…

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. medium.com/ydbtech/how-io…

RocksDB development finds a CPU bug rocksdb.org/blog/2026/02/1…

Three Lenses on Coordination jhellerstein.github.io/blog/three-spe…

Consensus Board Game matklad.github.io/2026/03/19/con…

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the mathematics of compression in database systems bitsxpages.com/p/the-mathemat… 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.