Databases. See also @AlexMillerDB@fosstodon.org or @alexmillerdb.bsky.app
Joined May 2014
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Jun 10
South Bay Systems returns for its June meetup on June 26th! We'll have two speakers: @thinkingfish will talk about her experiences from working on Caching at Twitter and developing Pelikan, and Eric Liang will talk about Databrick's history-based data clustering feature.
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May 29
The recording from this event is now available!
youtu.be/9LiSWbRASKc
Our next South Bay Systems meetup is on May 26! This time, we're covering one of my favorite topics: databases, and how to use them to make better architectural decisions and build reliable systems.
We have two great talks lined up:
- "Building a Distributed Persistent Queue on FoundationDB": @HimankChaudhary will walk through how the queuing infrastructure at @TigrisData was designed and implemented.
- "Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks": Steve Schirripa will share lessons and challenges around extending relational database systems at @VillageSQL.
Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of our hosts at @PingCAP. Registration link below.
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Our next South Bay Systems meetup is on May 26! This time, we're covering one of my favorite topics: databases, and how to use them to make better architectural decisions and build reliable systems.
We have two great talks lined up:
- "Building a Distributed Persistent Queue on FoundationDB": @HimankChaudhary will walk through how the queuing infrastructure at @TigrisData was designed and implemented.
- "Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks": Steve Schirripa will share lessons and challenges around extending relational database systems at @VillageSQL.
Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of our hosts at @PingCAP. Registration link below.
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May 1
And the recording from this talk is now available!
youtu.be/BG1zqnTGpyc
Thanks again to @cliff_click for the great talk, and LinkedIn for the great venue!
Apr 20
South Bay Systems returns for its April meetup on the 30th. This time we have @cliff_click giving a walkthrough of his teaching language for Sea of Nodes!
Sign up now! luma.com/nnq9aq27
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Apr 20
South Bay Systems returns for its April meetup on the 30th. This time we have @cliff_click giving a walkthrough of his teaching language for Sea of Nodes!
Sign up now! luma.com/nnq9aq27
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Mar 21
If you're an RSS user and a South Bay Systems attendee, I've added an RSS feed for the events at southbaysystems.xyz/atom.xml
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Our next South Bay Systems meetup will be on March 31. We've got two awesome deep-dive talks:
- @ssougou will present deconstructing consensus and its application to Multigres
- @stuhood will talk about how modern full-text search is evolving toward columnar systems (and the tricky optimization challenges)
Food and beverages will be provided, courtesy of our hosts, @Snowflake
Come hang out with the systems crowd 👇
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Mar 13
[CIDR '25] Linear Elastic Caching via Ski Rental
vldb.org/cidrdb/papers/2025/…
You should consider that holding a page in cache costs you, because RAM itself is expensive, and existing page replacement algorithms look at sizing cache independently (via miss-ratio curves).
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Mar 13
There's a few papers which argue that DBMSs do page eviction wrong, and they always feel like incredibly compelling arguments. As a bonus, "Writeback-Aware Caching" pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/… points out that evicting a dirty page is more expensive than evicting a clean page.
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Mar 12
[arXiv] Dynamic read & write optimization with TurtleKV
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10714
TurtleKV shows a way to elastically move around the RUM conjecture space depending on what is important at the moment.
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Mar 12
I continue to have a weakness for papers that show B-Trees and LSM-Trees as just two opposite tradeoffs along a continuum.
x.com/AlexMillerDB/status/18…
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I have a personal fondness for papers/posts which present two very distinct and opposing designs as just two extremes of some spectrum of design trade-offs. LSMs vs B-Trees is a space in which I've seen a few rather different pitches of what that design spectrum could look like
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Mar 11
[VLDB '26] Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and Services
vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p224-ch…
It's fast, durable redis, brought to you by Badrish Chandramouli (et. al), known for other 🔥 work like FASTER and Bf-tree.
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Mar 10
[CIDR '25] Adaptive Factorization Using Linear-Chained Hash Tables
vldb.org/cidrdb/papers/2025/…
Adaptive execution factorization WCOJ = great paper.
The best intro to factorized databases I know of is youtube.com/watch?v=-XmJ7a1W….
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Mar 8
scour.ing/ has gotten pretty good at surfacing what new stuff I actually want to read on the internet, better than following subreddits. You can see my feed of mostly database things at scour.ing/@linearizable. It surfaces small personal blogs particularly well.
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Mar 9
If you make an account you can seed your lists of interest off of my own: scour.ing/@linearizable/inte…
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Mar 9
[VLDB '25] MD-MVCC: Multi-version Concurrency Control for Schema Changes in Azure SQL Database
vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4791-a…
A great discussion of the end-to-end impact of allowing multiple versions of schema metadata information to be live concurrently, in a real, production system.
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Jan 5
Our next South Bay Systems event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about:
* xNVMe by @pinartozun of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
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