- Building an MCP Server for Anki
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I gave Claude access to my Anki collection. Writing tools for a reader that is a model.
Read more → - Caching Strategies: Architecture, Failure Modes, and Initialization
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A practical guide to runtime caching patterns, cold-start initialization strategies, and solving distributed failure modes like thundering herds and replica lag.
Read more → - Another PR to OSS merged 🥹 - CockroachDB
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My second contribution to open source - a fix for a bug in CockroachDB's PL/pgSQL UDF support.
Read more → - MVCC in MongoDB with WiredTiger
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How WiredTiger implements MVCC under MongoDB - timestamps, snapshot isolation, the history store, write conflicts, and how it compares to PostgreSQL.
Read more → - Adding Native Retry Logic to gofalcon
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How I added built-in exponential backoff retry support to the CrowdStrike Falcon Go SDK, so callers no longer have to roll their own.
Read more → - How MVCC Works and Why Databases Use It
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Multi-version concurrency control lets readers and writers proceed without blocking each other. A breakdown of the core mechanics, and how PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and MySQL InnoDB implement them.
Read more → - Write-Ahead Logging and Database Durability
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Write-ahead logging is the mechanism behind crash safety in almost every serious storage system. This post explains how it works from first principles, and how PostgreSQL, SQLite, RocksDB, and etcd each implement the same core idea.
Read more → - Pagination: cursor or offset?
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When to use cursor-based vs offset-based pagination.
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