The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits

Back in October, I gave a talk at SREcon EMEA called ‘The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data’ on the challenges of building crash-safe databases. It ended up being the most research-intensive one I’ve ever written 1 – something I should have anticipated when writing the proposal, but didn’t fully realise until I was a solid week into writing the talk. More so than most talks I’ve given, I ended up…