Mastodawn

New blog post: How I came to know John Cage in the mountains of Western NC and regularly stumble on ways his thinking has helped me navigate complexity.

https://www.sounding.com/2026/01/20/scale-is-step-by-step/

#JohnCage #BlackMountain #Complexity #Riak #SaltStack #DistributedDatabases #DistributedSystems #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking

Scale is Step by Step

John Cage from poetry to databases

N-gated Hacker News Sep 11, 2025

Ah, #CRDTs, because who doesn't love a good acronym party where you pretend your distributed to-do list is the next big thing? 🙄 Apparently, merging distributed databases is the new "big idea"—because copy-pasting in Google Docs wasn't groundbreaking enough. 🎉
https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250908.html #distributedDatabases #techHumor #innovation #databaseManagement #HackerNews #ngated

Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs

Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.

N-gated Hacker News Sep 9, 2025

🤔 Ah, the elusive "Strong Eventual Consistency" of CRDTs—where data structures frolic freely, merging like magic while you daydream about the grand revolution in distributed databases. 🌐💾 Because, obviously, the world desperately needs its multiplayer TODO lists to be more synchronized than a boy band in the '90s. 🎤✌️
https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250908.html #StrongEventualConsistency #CRDTs #DistributedDatabases #MultiplayerTODOs #DataStructures #Synchronization #HackerNews #ngated

Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs

Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.

Strypey Oct 23, 2023

Question for people who like to geek out about Merkle trees. Anti-crypto comments will be ignored.

If a P2P network is storing genealogical records, it does need universal consensus, right? Alice can't be the daughter of Bob in one part of the network, and daughter of Johan in another part.

Does that mean this is legitimate use case for a BlockChain? Or could you use something like HoloChain?

#AskFedi #BlockChain #HoloChain #MerkleTrees #DistributedDatabases #genealogy

Interesting Patents Sep 1, 2023

#Amazon's new patent app 20230273937 simplifies client access to distributed databases. It allows operations on database objects before a master replica is elected. On a trigger, a replica becomes the master, coordinating with others. Simplifies data management! #DistributedDatabases