Coffee Codex - Database contention
Mar 7, 2026
Learning about database contention from Jamie from Convex
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Thoughts on distributed systems, software engineering, and things I'm learning.
Coffee Codex - 2PC at Coffee Shops
Feb 7, 2026
Two-phase commit at coffee (and ice cream) shops
Coffee Codex - More Transactions
Jan 24, 2026
Reading Ben Dicken's Transaction Post
Coffee Codex - Jim Gray's Transactions II
Jan 10, 2026
Learning about transactions from Jim Gray's paper (Part 2)
Coffee Codex - Jim Gray's Transactions I
Dec 6, 2025
Learning about transactions from Jim Gray's paper (Part 1)
Coffee Codex - DuckDB
Nov 15, 2025
Learning about DuckDB
Coffee Codex - AWS outage
Oct 25, 2025
Reading the postmortem for the AWS outage
Coffee Codex - hydro.run
Oct 18, 2025
Learning about hydro.run
Coffee Codex - The Log
Oct 11, 2025
Learning about the fundamentals of the log in distributed systems