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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 8h

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 13h

edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...

EDB Engineering Newsletter #11

PostgreSQL 18 is released!

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 13h

A special edition of the EDB Engineering Newsletter this month celebrates the release of Postgres 18; including contributions by 21 engineers at EDB.

Also features Theia Vogel's seahorses, Jeremy Schneider on Jepsen and CloudNativePG, Hints for Computer System Design, and more.

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Chris @chris.blue · 1d

github.com/slatedb/slat... 👀

SlateDB has transactions. A year in the making. Lots of testing to do, but the APIs are there. This was all @flaneur2024.bsky.social. 🙏 I am very excited about this feature.

feat(txn): Add transaction api by flaneur2020 · Pull Request #925 · slatedb/slatedb

fixes #816 this pr is still wip. add a scaffold about DbTransaction api track the writes in the inner WriteBatch track the real scanned range in DbIter raise an error on operations after commi...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 2d

shared on discord

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 3d

New blog post, some thought experiments about learning from incident write-ups: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/04/t...

Two thought experiments

Here’s a thought experiment that John Allspaw related to me, in paraphrased form (John tells me that he will eventually capture this in a blog post of his own, at which time I’ll put a …

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 5d

broccoli steaks over manchego with drizzled honey, shrimp

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 5d

Had a fun time at the South Bay Systems meetup last night. Thanks @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting!

@codedrift.social gave a great talk on WebAssembly: what it is (and isn't), how it connects to WASI, and promising projects. He cuts through a lot of the hype vs. reality. Recording coming soon.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 5d

rhaas.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 6d

Linguine and clams, white wine sauteed green beans, budweiser

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 7d

My post on deterministic simulation testing is linked to from Antithesis, Jepsen, and now Amplify. I've made it, mom.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 7d

Applaud the confidence to give swag with almost no hint of who the company is (it's jetbrains, had to search the whole bag to find it on the handle)

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 8d

Ending every corporate dinner with high fives and "good game"

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 8d

Hey happy to! I'm manning our booth

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 9d

*swag 😅

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 9d

DBeaver out here at PGConf with some of the most practical conference wag I've seen, glasses cleaning cloth.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 12d

Team won season finals last night for the second time in a row! Moving up a division for the fourth season in a row now. Such a fun sport and such a good way to make friends