A deep dive into storage architecture, scaling tactics, and proven production patterns that help engineers build resilient, cost‑effective data stores.
A deep dive into extents versus classic block allocation, showing why modern filesystems favor extents for speed and scalability.
Copy‑on‑Write B‑Trees improve database performance but introduce write‑amplification that fragments SSDs; this post explains the mechanics and mitigation strategies.
Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) dramatically improves performance and durability by turning many small disk writes into sequential batches, while also simplifying crash recovery compared to direct updates.
A deep dive into the memory management trade‑offs between B‑Trees and LSM Trees, with practical guidance for database developers.