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• aalhour

  notes on software, systems, books, and curiosity.

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• Crash-only confidence, part 1: from random kills to exact boundaries

  aalhour · 2026-04-23

• Making the on-disk state real: Sorted-String Tables (SSTables)

  aalhour · 2026-04-05

• The Memtable: where writes go to wait

  aalhour · 2026-02-21

• The syscall I forgot: directory fsync

  aalhour · 2026-02-15

• Durability is a promise you can't hand-wave: Write-Ahead Log (WAL)

  aalhour · 2026-02-11

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