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July 20, 2021

Reducing my OSS involvement, and how it affects orchestrator & gh-ost

I’m going to bring down my work volume around OSS to a minimum, specifically when it comes to orchestrator and gh-ost. This is to explain the whats and hows so that users are as informed as possible. TL;DR a period of time I will not respond to issues, will not review pull requests, will not […]

July 19, 2021

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July 09, 2021

Experimental ClickHouse: Projections

ClickHouse tags a major release around once a month, which is an order of magnitude more often than similar projects, and it does it while maintaining speed and stability.

Experimental ClickHouse: Projections

ClickHouse tags a major release around once a month, which is an order of magnitude more often than similar projects, and it does it while maintaining speed and stability.

July 08, 2021

Announcing Vitess Arewefastyet

Benchmarking is a critical technique for delivering high performance software. The basic idea behind benchmarking is measuring and comparing the performance of one software version against another. Over the years, many benchmarking techniques have emerged, but we can broadly separate them into two categories: micro and macro benchmarks. Micro-benchmarks measure a small part of the codebase, usually by isolating a single function call and calling it repeatedly, whereas macro-benchmarks measure the performance of the codebase as a whole and run in an environment similar to what end-users experience.