A personal blog by John Cleaver mixing short technical notes on databases and storage with practical guides, such as how Ohio residents can legally borrow ebooks and audiobooks from remote libraries. The writing is brief and informal, offering useful pointers rather than deep analysis.
Website: https://johncleaver.com/
A personal blog on database internals and systems design, with long-form deep dives such as predicate pushdown in columnar storage and a from-scratch quad-based storage engine. The writing is technical and explains mechanisms with worked examples and a clear design perspective.
Deep-dive debugging write-ups on Nix, devenv, Postgres and Elixir, each tracing a real problem to its root cause. Readers get step-by-step investigation and the underlying mechanics, such as file descriptor limits, eval caching and query planning.
Oxycon Blog is an engineering blog from a small software company covering software architecture, the changing nature of programming with AI, and practical database scaling case studies. Each issue offers long-form essays with concrete technical reasoning and a clear point of view.
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