Links

People

• Kevin Kelly
• Julia Evans
• Visakan "visa" Veerasamy
• Derek Sivers
• Craig Mod
• Om Malik
• Tim Bray
• Morgan Housel

Articles and Papers

• Performance Hints
  Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat
• WHERE DOES DATABASE RESEARCH GO FROM HERE?
  Eugene Wu
• DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System
  Skiadopoulos et al
• What is Overcommit? (and why is it bad)
  Eta Labs
• Goetz Graefe Speaks Out on (Not Only) Query Optimization
  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo, Goetz Graefe
• Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
  Theo Hearder, Andreas Reuter
• Compiled vs Vectorized Query Execution
  Kersten, Pavlo, et al.
• What’s Really New with NewSQL?
  Andrew Pavlo, Matthew Aslett
• Files are fraught with peril
  Dan Luu
• Readability, hackability, and abstraction
  Ben Kuhn
• Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud
  Kleppmann et al.
• Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems
  Jeff Dean
• The Cascades Framework for Query Optimization
  Goetz Graefe
• SQL Memory Management in Oracle9i
  Benoît Dageville, Mohamed Zait
• An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems
  Surajit Chaudhuri
• Bits On The Wire
  Tim Bray
• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
  Aghayev et al.

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