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Almog Gavra
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I build and write about databases & object storage slatedb.io bitsxpages.com
Mountain View, CA
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    Almog Gavra
    @almoggavra
    Jun 30
    Does it count as a launch if it's already in production at multiple companies? We're finally (officially) announcing SlateDB: an OSS, object store native, embedded key-value database.
    SlateDB: An Object-Native LSM for Online Systems — SlateDB
    From slatedb.io
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    Almog Gavra
    @almoggavra
    Jul 30
    a popular youtuber featured tuicr, my open source code review TUI, and now I'm swamped with issues and PRs! If anyone wants to help out with the project, I'm open to adding a few maintainers.
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    Almog Gavra
    @almoggavra
    Jul 29
    Making any part of a system scale linearly is hard, full stop. Check out @dielhennr's post on how we made SlateDB compaction scale nearly linearly with cores AND machines, benchmarks included:
    The Past, Present, and Future of Compaction in SlateDB — SlateDB
    From slatedb.io
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    Almog Gavra
    @almoggavra
    Jul 28
    Just got off a pretty frustrating support case with a vendor. Good customer service is easy: always assume the problem is on your end and communicate frequently even when there is nothing new to share.
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    Almog Gavra
    @almoggavra
    Jul 14
    don't add caches until you've squeezed every drop of performance from your baseline algorithm
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