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Yep Vite is the way to go, especially if it's a static site. While server side react frameworks like Next may technically support static sites, it feels like an afterthought and IM…

Here are some popular papers: https://github.com/rxin/db-readings Once you finish the major papers, CMU has a ton of talks from more recent database research projects: https://db.c…

I agree, Silicon Valley (e.g. Mountain View, Santa Clara) is absolutely full of tech talent but the average engineer is mostly interested in and optimizing for work in big tech com…

BW Trees are pretty neat [1][2]. Typically BTrees in database engines need latches to prevent concurrent writes messing up the tree but BW Trees conveniently sidestep that requirem…

IMO if you're working on any non-trivial backend project, then you're already a "distributed systems engineer". Distributed systems problems are everywhere in the software world if…

One reason this is not feasible is that K8s is not designed for secure multitenancy, so for every tenant, you'll need to spin up an entire K8s control plane, which includes a datab…

I work at a somewhat well-known unicorn in the data space that has been using this architecture for a while. In fact I'd wager that any (non-cloud-provider) company that provides a…

You might be interested in this table table mapping internal tools/technology at Google to public equivalents: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

I've had my eye on this autoscaler for a while now, has anyone had experience running it in production with a large rate of node churn? I think combining the scheduler and the auto…

The keyword you're looking for here is Operator [1]. Kubernetes Operators are custom resources (e.g. Database, Load Balancer, ACME Certificate Entry) that manage themselves via a r…

Since no one has mentioned it so far, I'll go ahead and link a very insightful paper that the creator of Erlang actually wrote about how fault tolerance from the actor model make c…

The guy [1] who runs this project is super nice, about a year ago I was working on my own Rust based VM and he dropped in with a couple of helpful tips and ideas. [1]: https://gith…

I'm taking Jeff's 473 class right now and if you like his writing style, all of his lectures for both algorithms classes he teaches are online as videos - it can be a good companio…