Digital Garden

A collection of thoughts and articles at different development stages

Exadata-style Storage Nodes in PostgreSQL — What Already Exists

Oracle Exadata’s storage cells decompose into four separable tricks. Almost all of them already ship in the PostgreSQL ecosystem — and the core one is a single CREATE INDEX away.

Jul 10, 2026
Seeding 🌱

The Raft Consensus Algorithm

Summary of ‘In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm’ — Raft’s approach to leader-based replication as a more approachable alternative to Paxos.

Jul 8, 2026
Evergreen 🌳

RTK – Rust Token Killer

A single Rust binary that cuts LLM token usage by 60–90% by filtering CLI output before it hits the context window.

Jun 28, 2026
Evergreen 🌳

Azure takes its time

Azure resource creation and destruction may take longer…

May 25, 2025
Evergreen 🌳

Different types of lock-ins

Lock-In Types from Martin Fowler’s Article

Apr 20, 2025
Evergreen 🌳