Collections

• Enterprise Computation

  in progress

  How big companies actually buy and spend compute, and what changes when AI starts making those calls. Scheduling, portability, governance, and the economics underneath.

• Hidden Architecture

  2 pieces

  The parts of a system you never think about until one of them breaks. B-trees, write-ahead logs, change data capture, columnar formats, query planners, and what gets built on top of them.

• Building a Database

  1 piece

  Building a storage engine from scratch, one piece at a time. Bytes, pages, B-trees, recovery, and the parts I get wrong on the way there.

• Essays

  1 piece

  Things that don't fit anywhere else yet.