Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar
@migue.bsky.social
Proud dad and husband
fosdem.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
FOSDEM 2026 - From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud
Our database had reached a point where failure scenarios were becoming increasingly complex and time consuming. A single node could take up to 15 minutes to recover. It was expensive to run and…
fosdem.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Agent Infra me.0xffff.me
What We Talk About When We Talk About Agent Infra - me.0xffff.me
Examining what Agent Infrastructure really means from an infrastructure builder's perspective
me.0xffff.me
February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
What We Talk About When We Talk About Agent Infra me.0xffff.me
XRP: In-Kernel Storage Functions with eBPF
www.usenix.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:21 AM
XRP: In-Kernel Storage Functions with eBPF
PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series
PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
Every major cloud vendor now offers an enhanced, opinionated PostgreSQL-compatible database management... Read More +
db.cs.cmu.edu
January 31, 2026 at 4:16 PM
PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series
Bf-Tree: a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research.
GitHub - microsoft/bf-tree: Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research.
Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research. - microsoft/bf-tree
github.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Bf-Tree: a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research.
Formal Methods Beyond Correctness: Isolation & Permissiveness of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB www.mongodb.com/company/blog...
Formal Methods Beyond Correctness: Isolation & Permissiveness of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB
Learn how we used modular protocol specification for verifying both correctness and performance of MongoDB’s distributed transactions protocol.
www.mongodb.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Formal Methods Beyond Correctness: Isolation & Permissiveness of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB www.mongodb.com/company/blog...
Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding ARIES from First Principles | Yash Agarwal
Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding ARIES from First Principles | Yash Agarwal
A Minimal Database Model
yashagw.github.io
January 28, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding ARIES from First Principles | Yash Agarwal
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
In an era of generative AI and ubiquitous digital tools, human memory faces a paradox: the more we offload knowledge to external aids, the less we exercise and
papers.ssrn.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users openai.com/index/scalin...
https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/
openai.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users openai.com/index/scalin...
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last? storage.googleapis.com/gweb-researc...
storage.googleapis.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last? storage.googleapis.com/gweb-researc...
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations. Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
hakibenita.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations. Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go docs.google.com/presentation...
Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go
Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go Performance optimizations
docs.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Writing a TSDB from scratch in Go docs.google.com/presentation...
The End of General-purpose Database Systems? Or why we need to clone! drive.google.com/file/d/1XPQg...
GongShow_CIDR.pdf
drive.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The End of General-purpose Database Systems? Or why we need to clone! drive.google.com/file/d/1XPQg...
Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions about Transaction Workloads?
Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions about Transaction Workloads?
In this blog, we had reviewed quite a number of deterministic database papers, including Calvin , SLOG , Detock , which aimed to achieve hig...
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions about Transaction Workloads?
Building a Corruption-Proof Write-Ahead Log in Go
Building a Corruption-Proof Write-Ahead Log in Go
Learn how to build a crash-safe Write-Ahead Log (WAL) in Go, and why CRC32 alone is not enough. We explore the durability layers UnisonDB uses to prevent corruption after crashes.
unisondb.io
January 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Building a Corruption-Proof Write-Ahead Log in Go
Demystifying and Improving Lazy Promotion in Cache Eviction
https://juncheng.seas.harvard.edu/publication/vldb26_lazyPromotion.pdf
juncheng.seas.harvard.edu
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Demystifying and Improving Lazy Promotion in Cache Eviction
Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11540
arxiv.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11540
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…
arpitbhayani.me
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…
arpitbhayani.me
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
A hardware-aware guide to data structures for system software engineers.
GitHub - djiangtw/data-structures-in-practice-public: A hardware-aware guide to data structures for system software engineers.
A hardware-aware guide to data structures for system software engineers. - djiangtw/data-structures-in-practice-public
github.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A hardware-aware guide to data structures for system software engineers.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for
Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03565
arxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM
ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for
Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Algorithms Compute Functions. Systems Make Promises
Algorithms Compute Functions. Systems Make Promises.
I've been having a lot of fun working on Hydro at AWS this fall. But over the winter break I stepped away from coding and had the space to think ... mostly…
jhellerstein.github.io
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Algorithms Compute Functions. Systems Make Promises
Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives shapingai.com/Shaping%20AI...
https://shapingai.com/Shaping%20AI's%20Impact%20on%20Billions%20of%20Lives.pdf
shapingai.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives shapingai.com/Shaping%20AI...