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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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.

Careers — PlanetScale

Building the database of the future, together.

Thursday. What a concept.

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/

Do containers still contain?

🟪 => 🌎

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