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- throwaway81348 2y ago>They’re quick to design and implement solutions to challenging problems, and once implemented, their systems tend to work as intended or even better than expected. They are adept at using technical tools to diagnose problems and fix them rapidly. This is undoubtedly real but still reads like an LLM summarization
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago> In a way, what we've done is custom-built a database by turning it inside-out. We simplified the canonical storage into a NoSQL cluster, and then built our own querying engine with the view servers. It's a lot less convenient to build with, but it scales. https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers Turning the database inside out? Where have I heard that before... Oh, right, Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza (2014), https://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/09/18/turning-database-inside-out-at-strange-loop.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/09/18/turning-database-ins... Further, Martin's Designing Data Intensive Applicarions (2017) is a very very well respected book that encompasses these ideas & more.