SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness Roll the dice. Paul E. McKenney’s 1990 paper Stochastic Fairness Queuing contains one of my favorite little distributed algorithms. Stochastic Fairness Queu

You Are Here Where to next? The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near-zero. The cost of integrating services and libraries, the plumbing of the code w

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AI agents achieve goals through side effects using tools. The key safety concern is controlling what agents can actually do, not just say.

Programming is evolving toward specification, with developers increasingly describing what they want rather than how to implement it through layers of abstraction.

SSDs are ~1000x faster than old spinning disks, but modern databases were designed for slow disks. What would a database built from scratch for SSDs look like?

Cloudflare's outage sparked debate about error handling in Rust, specifically the risks of using .unwrap() which can crash programs in large systems.

Strong consistency is better than eventual consistency because eventual consistency creates operational complexity and weird behavior in distributed database systems.