Tag: #replication
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 9 posts
Data Residency Is a Replication Topology, Not a Dropdown
Using the document Fastmail published when it opened an EU data region on August 3, 2026 as a textbook, this post lays out why the location of your data is not settled by picking a region once. The primary copy, the repl
2026-08-09 · 9 min read #architecture#data-residency#gdpr#replication#complianceHow the Stanford Prison Experiment Fell Apart — What the Archives Revealed
The 1971 prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo entered textbooks and feature films as the story of ordinary students who became brutal guards in six days. Yet the original data appeared not in a top-tier journal but i
2026-07-26 · 9 min read #psychology#paper-review#social-psychology#replication#research-ethicsDoes Willpower Really Run Out — From the Radish Experiment to the Replication Crisis, with Publication Bias in Code
"Willpower drains like a muscle." The ego depletion theory once looked like one of the most solid ideas in psychology. From the 1998 experiment in which students who ate radishes in a room full of chocolate aroma gave up
2026-07-20 · 7 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#willpower#replicationThe Marshmallow Test Is Only Half True — From the Original Paper to the 2018 Replication
The marshmallow test supposedly proves that patience at age 4 decides your life. Read the original paper, though, and the popular myth starts to crack. What the 1972 Mischel experiment actually showed (waiting is a matte
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#self-control#replicationMariaDB Architecture — From Storage Engines to Galera
A top-down walk through the MariaDB server architecture, from the connection layer to the parser, optimizer, and executor, covering storage engine selection criteria, replication, the Galera synchronous multi-master clus
2026-06-27 · 20 min read #mariadb#storage-engine#galera#replication#innodbA Deep Dive into PostgreSQL Architecture — From MVCC to Vectors
A deep look at the internal architecture of PostgreSQL, from process and memory structure to MVCC, indexes, query execution, replication, partitioning, and extensions like pgvector. We unpack the core mechanisms with ASC
2026-06-27 · 11 min read #postgresql#database#mvcc#architecture#indexingAWS DMS in Practice — Migration and Continuous Replication (CDC)
A practitioner walkthrough of AWS Database Migration Service from its building blocks to full load and CDC, heterogeneous migration with SCT, LOB handling and data validation, monitoring and cut-over strategy. It also co
2026-06-16 · 19 min read #aws#dms#database#migration#cdcDistributed Systems Fundamentals Complete Guide 2025: Consensus Algorithms, Replication, Consistency Models, Fault Tolerance
Everything about distributed systems! CAP/PACELC theorem, consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), replication strategies (leader-follower/multi-leader/leaderless), consistency models (strong/eventual/causal), distributed cloc
2026-04-14 · 24 min read #distributed-systems#consensus#raft#paxos#replicationDistributed Systems Fundamentals: From CAP Theorem to Consensus Algorithms and Consistency Models
Everything about distributed systems! CAP/PACELC theorem, consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), consistency models (Strong/Eventual/Causal), replication (Leader-Follower/Multi-Leader/Leaderless), partitioning, distributed t
2026-03-23 · 21 min read #distributed-systems#cap-theorem#consensus#raft#paxos