New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems.
transactional.blog/b...

The latest paper from the #1 CMU-DB PhD student @samarchdb.bsky.social is wild compilation magic! He automatically makes UDFs run 300x faster on SQL Server and 1.3x faster on DuckDB.
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...

Distributed Restate - A first look A first look at distributed highly-available deployments of Restate and the architecture that supports those. We demonstate this through a geo-distributed active/active setup executing an order-proces...

First peek at distributed @restatedev.bsky.social: a database for durable execution.

Distributed setups scale, improve failover, and trade the dependency on persistent disk (eg EBS) with an S3 dependency. Restate replicates events internally to bridge S3's latency gap.
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restate.dev/blog/distrib...

Looks great !!

Any plans to open source the implementation of pg_karnak ?