Matt Blewitt

@mble
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No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no shape.

Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.

Bloghttps://matt.blwt.io/
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After almost 8 years at Heroku, time for a new adventure PlanetScale.

Thursday. What a concept.

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.

Over-Engineering Sleep

Why would you use a horrible bash loop of all things?

Matt Blewitt
not everyone in society needs to have taken philosophy 101, but imo our dogshit discourse around AI suggests that it probably should have been mandatory for the elite classes
Trying to be a bit looser with blog stuff: https://matt.blwt.io/post/embodiment/
Embodiment

Or, touching grass is good actually.

Matt Blewitt

You probably have an app/service that performs operations against a Postgres database.

Do you change the transaction isolation level from the default?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-to-lose-a-fortune-with-just-one-bad-click/

Please, I beg you, do not co-locate your MFA with one account. Do not screenshot your secrets. Do not put them in notes docs, text files etc.

Yes, I feel the same way with 1Password TOTP.

How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click – Krebs on Security

Want to become way more effective as an engineering leader, or even as an IC? Grab some power tools and make sense of the data you gather: https://matt.blwt.io/post/leadership-power-tools-sql-and-statistics/
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics

Knowledge is power - arm yourself.

Matt Blewitt