Phil Eaton

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Notes on software development.

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Query plan rewriting in PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #Database #SoftwareDevelopment
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Sep 13, 2026
Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go #Programming #Concurrency #GoLang
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Sep 6, 2026
Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug #SoftwareDevelopment #Databases #OpenSource
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Aug 23, 2026
The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 #SoftwareDevelopment #Databases #DistributedSystems
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Aug 16, 2026
Hourly updates to jobs and the feed #Software #Development #Updates
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Aug 14, 2026
Touring The Consensus, six months in
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Aug 5, 2026
The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal #Programming #SoftwareDev #OCaml
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Jun 27, 2026
WasmGC in Wasmtime #WebAssembly #Software #Dev
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Jun 23, 2026
Observing Go's garbage collector, old and new #GoLang #Software #DevOps
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Jun 19, 2026
Doing the rounds #SoftwareDevelopment #PersonalNotes #Tech
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Jun 15, 2026
This week in infrastructure #Infrastructure #Databases #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 11, 2026
Of forks and clones and package management #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #Databases
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Jun 11, 2026
Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole #Python #Programming #Software
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Jun 6, 2026
Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium #SoftwareDevelopment #WebBrowsers #OpenSource
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May 20, 2026
Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring #SoftwareDevelopment #Networking #Performance
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May 18, 2026
Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB #Databases #MySQL #MariaDB
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May 2, 2026
Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects) #Software #Databases #Tech
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Apr 16, 2026
How jobs, events, and funding work on The Consensus #Software #Development #Tech
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Apr 8, 2026
Who contributed to DataFusion 53 #databases #datafusion #rust
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Apr 3, 2026
Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report
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Mar 29, 2026
Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra #Databases #Software #OpenSource
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Mar 19, 2026
Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io
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Mar 19, 2026
A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB
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Mar 19, 2026
Mojo's not (yet) Python
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Mar 12, 2026
Source-available projects and their AI contribution policies
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Mar 2, 2026
Open Source Contributor Spotlight: Kosta Tarasov and DataFusion
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Feb 26, 2026
I started a software research company
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Feb 25, 2026
We have pgvector at home
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Feb 22, 2026
Generating vector embeddings for semantic search locally
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Feb 15, 2026
Paths of MySQL, vector search edition
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Feb 8, 2026
Companies behind Postgres 18 development
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Feb 2, 2026
LLMs and your career
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Jan 19, 2026
Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
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Jan 3, 2026
Year in community
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Dec 31, 2025
Year in books
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Dec 23, 2025
Is psql's scripting language Turing complete? Or: fibonacci in psql
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Nov 26, 2025
An individual can change an organization
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Nov 3, 2025
Transaction pooling for Postgres with pgcat
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Oct 24, 2025
In response to a developer asking about systems
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Sep 15, 2025
A simple clustering and replication solution for Postgres
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Sep 10, 2025