Pete Naylor
@pete-naylor.bsky.social
Distributed datastores and indexing are my areas of interest. Extensive experience with DynamoDB at AWS. Now working on the core datastore for Elasticsearch.
While I was at AWS, I heard many stories of painful disappointments in S3's multipart upload feature. Still wasn't prepared for how shockingly bad it is - the documentation is appalling.
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
While I was at AWS, I heard many stories of painful disappointments in S3's multipart upload feature. Still wasn't prepared for how shockingly bad it is - the documentation is appalling.
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👋 Welcome to Elastic Dev — your new go-to for hands-on demos, cheat sheets, concept explainers & more. Get the latest on search, data & GenAI straight from the source.
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Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
Expect:
- Practical demos & how-tos
- Posts & technical deep dives
- Open source updates
+ more
Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
👋 Welcome to Elastic Dev — your new go-to for hands-on demos, cheat sheets, concept explainers & more. Get the latest on search, data & GenAI straight from the source.
Expect:
- Practical demos & how-tos
- Posts & technical deep dives
- Open source updates
+ more
Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
Expect:
- Practical demos & how-tos
- Posts & technical deep dives
- Open source updates
+ more
Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
Spent the last 5 weeks back "home" in Australia 🇦🇺 Time with family and old friends, bird songs, eucalypt smells, swimming at beaches - all healthy food for the soul. Driving on the other side of the road, meat pie consumption, sampling local brews probably more of a health risk - but worth it.
April 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Spent the last 5 weeks back "home" in Australia 🇦🇺 Time with family and old friends, bird songs, eucalypt smells, swimming at beaches - all healthy food for the soul. Driving on the other side of the road, meat pie consumption, sampling local brews probably more of a health risk - but worth it.
Happy Australia Day!!
January 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Happy Australia Day!!
Today is a good day to focus on remembering real American leaders and everything they stood for. I am a US citizen but these days, I'm pleased to "still call Australia home".
January 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Today is a good day to focus on remembering real American leaders and everything they stood for. I am a US citizen but these days, I'm pleased to "still call Australia home".
When my boat grows up she wants to be just like the Lindsey Foss.
December 21, 2024 at 12:53 AM
When my boat grows up she wants to be just like the Lindsey Foss.
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One thing I see in this blog post is people running etcd on … EBS volumes, which of course introduced insane latency into fsync.
zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting...
Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?
zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting...
Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?
etcd: getting 30% more write/s
Undertaking performance analysis on our etcd clusters, I ended up with a 30% performance increase, and learnt lots about databases & disk…
zendesk.engineering
December 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM
One thing I see in this blog post is people running etcd on … EBS volumes, which of course introduced insane latency into fsync.
zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting...
Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?
zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting...
Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?
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Agree that Snapshot Isolation is a sweet spot for application developers. It also enables practical time travel queries and debugging, which is challenging with lower isolation levels. I covered this topic in my blog post for my VLDB'23 paper: qianli.dev/blog/timetra...
December 18, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Agree that Snapshot Isolation is a sweet spot for application developers. It also enables practical time travel queries and debugging, which is challenging with lower isolation levels. I covered this topic in my blog post for my VLDB'23 paper: qianli.dev/blog/timetra...
Just wow. Striped hound and me kinda wiped out by a Werner Hertzog documentary.
December 16, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Just wow. Striped hound and me kinda wiped out by a Werner Hertzog documentary.
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The CFP for PgDay Chicago 2025 is open! Click the link below for more information!
https://buff.ly/3OOofA1
@PostgreSQL #postgres #cfp #callforpapers
https://buff.ly/3OOofA1
@PostgreSQL #postgres #cfp #callforpapers
PGDay Chicago | PostgreSQL Conference
United States PostgreSQL Association
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 6:44 PM
The CFP for PgDay Chicago 2025 is open! Click the link below for more information!
https://buff.ly/3OOofA1
@PostgreSQL #postgres #cfp #callforpapers
https://buff.ly/3OOofA1
@PostgreSQL #postgres #cfp #callforpapers
PSA: beware of rabbit holes!
Excited to see the eng team publishing this newsletter. 🤓 If you are interested in data, databases, Postgres, analytical queries over various open data lake formats, streaming, Kubernetes etc, this will be a terrific curated source of info that you'll enjoy.
Excited to see the eng team publishing this newsletter. 🤓 If you are interested in data, databases, Postgres, analytical queries over various open data lake formats, streaming, Kubernetes etc, this will be a terrific curated source of info that you'll enjoy.
Really happy to share a new newsletter taking you behind the scenes with the EDB Engineering Team!
Among other things, we tell the story about how my coworker Pavan found one of the major bugs behind the recent Postgres minor release mishaps.
edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...
Among other things, we tell the story about how my coworker Pavan found one of the major bugs behind the recent Postgres minor release mishaps.
edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...
December 3, 2024 at 3:24 PM
PSA: beware of rabbit holes!
Excited to see the eng team publishing this newsletter. 🤓 If you are interested in data, databases, Postgres, analytical queries over various open data lake formats, streaming, Kubernetes etc, this will be a terrific curated source of info that you'll enjoy.
Excited to see the eng team publishing this newsletter. 🤓 If you are interested in data, databases, Postgres, analytical queries over various open data lake formats, streaming, Kubernetes etc, this will be a terrific curated source of info that you'll enjoy.
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We want you, yes you, to join PgUS! Why? To help bring more resources and education to the PostgreSQL community! Join today!
https://buff.ly/3czbR3G
#PostgreSQL #postgres
https://buff.ly/3czbR3G
#PostgreSQL #postgres
PgUS - Become a Member
The United States PostgreSQL Association affectionately known as PgUS is a IRS 501(c)(3) public charity. Our purpose is to support the growth and education about The World's Most Advanced Open Source…
buff.ly
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
We want you, yes you, to join PgUS! Why? To help bring more resources and education to the PostgreSQL community! Join today!
https://buff.ly/3czbR3G
#PostgreSQL #postgres
https://buff.ly/3czbR3G
#PostgreSQL #postgres
Are you following @eatonphil.bsky.social ? If you are interested in data, databases, distributed services, Phil will connect you with so many resources.
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Are you following @eatonphil.bsky.social ? If you are interested in data, databases, distributed services, Phil will connect you with so many resources.
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If you want to know more about how the Bluesky apps work and are built @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and I interviewed @pfrazee.com on our podcast before Bluesky was cool 😎
changelog.com/shipit/100
changelog.com/shipit/100
Bluesky apps with Paul Frazee (Ship It! #100)
Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.
changelog.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:47 AM
If you want to know more about how the Bluesky apps work and are built @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and I interviewed @pfrazee.com on our podcast before Bluesky was cool 😎
changelog.com/shipit/100
changelog.com/shipit/100
Useful insights from @justingarrison.com. The two key points that I liked were:
1/ The right orchestration pattern fits an organization's shape and culture.
2/ For platform teams, being opinionated and knowing when to say "your use case is not a good fit for this platform" is important for success.
1/ The right orchestration pattern fits an organization's shape and culture.
2/ For platform teams, being opinionated and knowing when to say "your use case is not a good fit for this platform" is important for success.
Here’s my #kubecon rejekts talk for everyone who missed it
What Kubernetes should learn from other orchestrators
www.youtube.com/live/M1R05c1...
What Kubernetes should learn from other orchestrators
www.youtube.com/live/M1R05c1...
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November 12, 2024 at 5:22 AM
Useful insights from @justingarrison.com. The two key points that I liked were:
1/ The right orchestration pattern fits an organization's shape and culture.
2/ For platform teams, being opinionated and knowing when to say "your use case is not a good fit for this platform" is important for success.
1/ The right orchestration pattern fits an organization's shape and culture.
2/ For platform teams, being opinionated and knowing when to say "your use case is not a good fit for this platform" is important for success.
Had the pleasure of chatting with @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and @justingarrison.com on the Ship It podcast recently. And I really mean that - it was fun! Thank you both for the invitation and for being such accommodating hosts. changelog.com/shipit/127
Your customer is Amazon.com with Pete Naylor, Product Manager at EDB (Ship It! #127)
From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.
changelog.com
November 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Had the pleasure of chatting with @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and @justingarrison.com on the Ship It podcast recently. And I really mean that - it was fun! Thank you both for the invitation and for being such accommodating hosts. changelog.com/shipit/127
Just want to point out that us Aussies are doing the important work. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Just want to point out that us Aussies are doing the important work. www.bbc.com/news/article...