A small collection of random things I’ve found interesting during the last few weeks. Each section includes a short note about the content (nothing more). You’ll find books, papers, articles, and more, but you’ll have to read them yourself to decide whether they’re interesting or not.

The Linux Memory Manager

A modern, in-depth exploration of how Linux handles memory. It’s an early access book and it isn’t finished yet. I have just skimmed through the first chapters but it looks very promising.

A while ago I published a short Twitter thread explaining a few of the problems I had run into while running their [enterprise] clustering solution; it’s been quite a painful process and I would like to write down the alternative architecture I ended up with while looking for improvements.

The original scenario

The original scenario I was working at was composed of a cluster of Go API servers backed by an InfluxDB database. Original service requirements demanded to deploy a fault-tolerant datastore so that’s the reason an InfluxDB cluster was put in place.