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Glauber Costa
Personal blog · glaubercosta-11125.medium.comsystemsprogramming
Glauber Costa's personal blog at glaubercosta-11125.medium.com covers systems and programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Modern storage is plenty fast”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Glauber Costa's Medium posts on embeddable distributed SQLite, SQLite internals, and C vs Rust async design as context for database discussions. The comments do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Modern storage is plenty fast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-25
- /728187331f532 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-16
- SQLite: QEMU All over Again?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-04
- Career advice for young system programmers (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-18
What Hacker News says?
I love reading about articles on Databases, especially about their internal workings. Some of the blogs I follow: 1. Oren Eini - Creator and CTO of Raven DB - https://ayende.com/blog 2. Tyler Neely - Creator of Sled DB - https://medium.com/@tylerneely 3. Philip O'Toole - Creator of rqlite - https://www.philipotoole.com/ 4. Martin Kleppmann - Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications - https://martin.kleppmann.…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted SQLite: QEMU All over Again? as a story · 279 points
HN discussionI don't know if SQLite + Raft is going to be the next Postgres, but it's certainly an interesting solution for a variety of use cases where you don't need your data _partitioned_ on multiple machines (but still want it to be replicated for availability and fault tolerance). As others point out in this thread, there's already rqlite for Go, sqlite for C, and now we've open sourced our work on bringing SQLite and Raft…
Comment linking /winds-of-change-in-web-data-728187331f53
on “The Session Extension”Submitted Modern storage is plenty fast as a story · 31 points
HN discussionGlommio was created by Glauber Costa, one of the early contributors to Seastar (and Scylla). The resemblance between the two is not coincidence. https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/c-vs-rust-an-async-thr...
Comment linking /c-vs-rust-an-async-thread-per-core-story-28c4b43c410c
on “Scylla – Real-Time Big Data Database”Submitted Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad as a story · 6 points
HN discussionrqlite is not embeddable, making it harder to colocate data with computation. This post explains it: https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/728187331f53
Comment linking /728187331f53
on “Chiselstore: an embeddable, distributed SQLite for Rust”Submitted Career advice for young system programmers (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe announcement here talks more about the context: https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/728187331f53 It also mentions rqlite and dqlite.
Comment linking /728187331f53
on “Chiselstore: an embeddable, distributed SQLite for Rust”Submitted Career advice for young system programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAre you talking about this blog post? https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/sqlite-qemu-all-over-a... What part(s) is/are inflammatory? (I'm honestly asking because I don't see anything obvious and I wish to understand your perspective. I'm not trying to imply that there's nothing inflammatory there by using a question)
Comment linking /sqlite-qemu-all-over-again-aedad19c9a1c
on “LibSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite”Submitted Async Rust: history strikes back as a story · 2 points
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