Tags
23 tags, 25 posts.
- #database 10 posts
Posts on database internals — storage layouts, indexing, query planning, and the trade-offs that come up at scale.
- #fundamentals 10 posts
Foundational posts — the explanations I wish I had when I was learning these topics myself.
- #machine-learning 8 posts
- #mathematics 8 posts
- #performance 6 posts
Performance posts — profiling, measurement, and the surprises that appear when you actually look.
- #postgresql 6 posts
PostgreSQL-specific posts — query plans, index types, vacuum, and how the server actually executes your SQL.
- #internals 5 posts
How things actually work under the hood — pages, plans, runtimes, and the layers most code never touches.
- #learning 5 posts
Posts about learning itself — building expertise, mental models, and habits that compound.
- #mental-models 5 posts
Frameworks for thinking — distinctions, trade-offs, and the lenses that change how I approach problems.
- #wealth 5 posts
Notes on wealth-building from a personal-learning series — ownership, leverage, specific knowledge.
- #sql 3 posts
SQL posts — query patterns, EXPLAIN output, and the gotchas that silently kill performance.
- #architecture 2 posts
- #distributed-systems 2 posts
- #concurrency 1 post
- #data-structures 1 post
Notes on the data structures behind the systems we use every day — trees, hashes, and the trade-offs between them.
- #debugging 1 post
Debugging posts — concrete techniques for finding bugs in real systems, not just toy examples.
- #go 1 post
Go-language posts — profiling, performance, runtime behaviour, and idioms that hold up in production.
- #golang 1 post
- #javascript 1 post
- #replication 1 post
- #scaling 1 post
- #security 1 post
- #transactions 1 post
Transactions and concurrency — isolation levels, anomalies, and what your database is really promising.