A personal blog-style newsletter about running scalable, reliable database infrastructure, with a focus on MySQL monitoring and high availability. It shares practical tooling write-ups, conference talk slides and open-source integrations from an experienced practitioner.
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A software engineer's blog covering hands-on lessons from building observability pipelines on ClickHouse, including the silent failure modes he encountered. It also offers personal essays and speculative writing on desktop UI design and the burden of constant smartphone connectivity.
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.
A personal tech blog by Christian Huth covering cloud-native operations, with practical posts on Kubernetes pod startup, Argo CD server-side apply, and migrating PostgreSQL to CloudNativePG. Readers get concrete, step-by-step guidance with explained trade-offs and limitations.
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