TL;DR: BeachDB v0.0.4 turns crash testing from random SIGKILLs into crashes aimed at named engine boundaries. It ships a controller/worker harness, replayable artifacts, and a tiny crashhook layer ...

TL;DR: BeachDB v0.0.3 is out, and it ships SSTables v1: immutable sorted files on disk, a real memtable flush path, on-disk reads, and an sst_dump tool so I can inspect the bytes instead of trustin...

TL;DR: BeachDB v0.0.2 ships the memtable — a skip list that replaces the placeholder map. This post covers why maps don’t work for LSM storage, how internal key ordering makes “newest version wins”...

TL;DR: I fsynced the WAL file on every write. Crash tests passed. SIGKILL tests passed. Then someone asked: “What if the directory doesn’t know the file exists?” I was one missing syscall away from...

TL;DR: BeachDB v0.0.1 is out, and it ships the Write-Ahead Log — the thing that makes durability real. This post walks through how fsync actually works with an interactive demo (most tutorials skip...

TL;DR: I’m building BeachDB — a toy, inspectable LSM-based storage engine in Go — to stop hand-waving database internals and learn them by building them end-to-end, in public. This kickoff post exp...

Do you know that feeling when you realize you’re not growing anymore in your chosen field, role, or area(s) of expertise? Or when you notice you’ve been maintaining your tools instead of learning ...

“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be disturbed by anything outside their reasoned choice.” If you find yourself in a state of panic or rage, simply ask yourself: “Is this improv...

The three Stoic tenets are: a) perception, b) directed action, c) will. What is within my control, and what is not? Direct your actions towards what truly matters. Be ...

2017 was a good year for me in terms of reading as I managed to read 12 books in total, meanwhile learning German, listening to engineering podcasts, attending two conferences and taking several co...