Tag databases

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2025-04-02

68.

How to Sync Anything

neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything

2025-03-27

67.

Things that go wrong with disk IO

notes.eatonphil.com/2025-03-27-things-that-go-wrong-with-disk-io.html

2025-03-01

59.

How CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: fsync

neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevents-data-corruption-fsync

Very neat explanation of how databases work hard to keep your data safe. I was surprised to learn about the failure mode of reading from page cache twice and the database convincing itself that the data has been written out even though it really hasn't.