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• Active and influential NYC infrastructure people
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/15/2024

• Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/6/2024

• Effective unemployment and social media
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/5/2024

• Checking linearizability in Go
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/31/2024

• Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/29/2024

• Be someone who does things
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/23/2024

• Obsession
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/24/2024

• What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/20/2024

• Delightful, production-grade replication for Postgres
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/30/2024

• A reawakening of systems programming meetups
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/7/2024

• A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/1/2024

• The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG?
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/17/2024

• Confusion is a muse
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/14/2024

• How I run a software book club
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/30/2024

• Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/16/2024

• What makes a great technical blog
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/10/2024

• A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/5/2024

• Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/27/2024

• Zig, Rust, and other languages
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/15/2024

• First month on a database team
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/11/2024

• An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/8/2024

• Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/9/2024

• Make your own way
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/27/2023

• Exploring a Postgres query plan
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/19/2023

• Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/1/2023

• io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/19/2023

• Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/5/2023

• Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/1/2023

• How do databases execute expressions?
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/21/2023

• Eight years of organizing tech meetups
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/4/2023

• Thinking about functional programming
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/15/2023

• We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/11/2023

• Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/19/2023

• Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/25/2023

• Two books I recommend to developers
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/16/2023

• My favorite software subreddits
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/16/2023

• Errors and Zig
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/21/2023

• Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/18/2023

• Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/30/2023

• An effective product manager
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/23/2023

• The year in books: 2022
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/12/2023

• Favorite compiler and interpreter resources
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/5/2023

• General book recommendations
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/4/2023

• In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/1/2023

• Is it worth writing about?
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/1/2022

• A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/23/2022

• Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/13/2022

• A minimal RocksDB example with Zig
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/30/2022

• A database without dynamic memory allocation
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/12/2022

• A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/17/2022

• What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB?
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/23/2022

• SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/21/2022

• Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/25/2022

• Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/10/2022

• One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/10/2022

• Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/17/2022

• SQLite in Go, with and without cgo
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/12/2022

• HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/26/2022

• Interview With Phil of DataStation
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/17/2022

• Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/11/2022

• Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/28/2022

• Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/3/2022

• SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/20/2022

• The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/8/2022

• How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/31/2022

• Bootloader basics
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/23/2022

• dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/11/2022

• Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/6/2022

• The year in books: 11 to recommend in 2021
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/5/2022

• Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/28/2021

• Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/16/2021

• Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/23/2021

• Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/13/2021

• Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/31/2021

• Exploring PL/pgSQL part two: implementing a Forth-like interpreter
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/29/2021

• Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/24/2021

• Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/18/2021

• Notes on running Electron
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/13/2021

• Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/21/2021

• Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/26/2021

• Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/21/2021

• Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/5/2021

• Writing an efficient object previewer for JavaScript
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/15/2021

• React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/8/2021

• Controlled HTML select element in React has weird default UX
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/25/2021

• Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/22/2021

• Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/17/2021

• Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/4/2021

• Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/23/2021

• Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/4/2021

• How to get better at recursion
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/7/2021

• Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/23/2021

• The year in books: 20 to recommend in 2020
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/27/2020

• Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/20/2020

• Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/26/2020

• The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/11/2020

• Standard ML in 2020
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/25/2020

• The case for comments in code
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/7/2020

• Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/16/2020

• A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/25/2020

• Generating a full-stack application from a database
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/14/2020

• Generating a REST API from a database
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/6/2020

• RFCs and asynchronous-first culture
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/16/2020

• Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/10/2020

• Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/1/2020

• Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/12/2020

• Studying foreign languages with inbox zero
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/4/2020

• Reviewing the Surface Book 2
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/18/2020

• Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/6/2020

• A minimal REST API in Java
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/1/2020

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/8/2019

• Confusion and disengagement in meetings
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/30/2019

• Interpreting Go
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/12/2019

• Administering Kubernetes is hard
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/30/2019

• Unit testing C code with gtest
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/31/2019

• Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 2. system calls
  notes.eatonphil.com · 7/20/2019

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
  notes.eatonphil.com · 6/22/2019

• Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/21/2019

• Tail call elimination
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/14/2019

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/4/2019

• Responsibility and ownership
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/30/2019

• Interpreting TypeScript
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/14/2019

• Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/6/2019

• Writing a simple JSON path parser
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/27/2019

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/10/2019

• AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8
  notes.eatonphil.com · 2/26/2019

• Transparency and communication on small teams
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/22/2019

• Windows
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/20/2019

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/20/2019

• Make small changes and solve the problems you have
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/27/2018

• Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
  notes.eatonphil.com · 11/20/2018

• On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul
  notes.eatonphil.com · 10/20/2018

• Why (and how) to read books
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/26/2018

• Compiling dynamic programming languages
  notes.eatonphil.com · 9/2/2018

• btest: a language agnostic test runner
  notes.eatonphil.com · 8/4/2018

• Writing to be read
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/18/2018

• Writing a simple JSON parser
  notes.eatonphil.com · 5/6/2018

• Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment
  notes.eatonphil.com · 4/28/2018

• Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/25/2018

• Starting a minimal Common Lisp project
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/5/2018

• Interview with the D Language Blog: BSDScheme
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/20/2018

• First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter
  notes.eatonphil.com · 1/10/2018

• Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes
  notes.eatonphil.com · 3/11/2017

• Walking through a basic Racket web service
  notes.eatonphil.com · 12/29/2016