http://simonwillison.net/2024-07-01T15:05:51+00:00Simon Willison2024-07-01T15:05:51+00:002024-07-01T15:05:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/1/write-ahead-log/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-07-01-a-write-ahead-log-is-not-a-universal-part-of-durability.html">A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability</a></strong></p> Phil Eaton uses pseudo code to provide a clear description of how write-ahead logs in transactional database systems work, useful for understanding the tradeoffs they make and the guarantees they can provided.</p> <p>I particularly liked the pseudo code explanation of group commits, where clients block waiting for their commit to be acknowledged as part of a batch of writes flushed to disk. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844825">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases">databases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phil-eaton">phil-eaton</a></p>

2022-01-15T18:29:06+00:002022-01-15T18:29:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jan/15/minimal-lua-rust/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://notes.eatonphil.com/lua-in-rust.html">Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust</a></strong></p> Phil Eaton implements a subset of Lua in a Rust in this detailed tutorial. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/compilers">compilers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lua">lua</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rust">rust</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phil-eaton">phil-eaton</a></p>