My team @nextdoor and I published a blog series on common pitfalls with scaling RDBMS dbs and look aside caches. The series details our approaches to routing, serialization, and consistency. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343... #databases #caching #SystemDesign #consistency #sre

How to keep sourdough starter warm in winter time when you can’t find other options: #sourdough #cats

DSQL is cool but if you can benefit from it and make real use of it, you also probably can’t simply migrate to it due to all that legacy code and query patterns that work well on a single Postgres instance.

What am I even watching? #F1 #QatarGP