No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no shape.
Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
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I'm hiring for my team @ planetscale.com, in AMER and EMEA, fully remote.
Come build the best Postgres product on the planet with super talented folks, very high autonomy, tier-zero databases.
Happy to talk first - https://planetscale.com/careers to apply.
It's always been known that containers don't fully contain, but the ease with which attackers can execute container breakout attacks now, using LLM backed tooling, should prompt people to re-evaluate where they can rely on container isolation.
Some more thoughts and a concrete example here https://raesene.github.io/blog/2026/06/03/do-containers-still-contain/
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After almost 8 years at Heroku, time for a new adventure PlanetScale.
Genuinely great paper out from Meta on Scribe, from VLDB: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4817-karpathiotakis.pdf
It's an excellent breakdown on how to design such systems with explicit goals around write availability.
https://matt.blwt.io/post/overengineering-sleep/
After seeing this and the complaints about the implementation, let's dig into re-implementing "sleep" for Linux-likes and BSD-likes in Zig.
Thursday, what a concept
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