Howen
I'm howen, a software engineer at RisingWave, where I help build a streaming database.
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Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres — PlanetScale
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres
- Performance
- Databases
- Database Internals
- Postgres
- Search
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The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScale
Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.
- Performance
- Distributed Systems
- Databases
- Database Internals
- Postgres
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But...
- Systems Programming
- Programming Languages
- Rust
- Python
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory...
- Performance
- Systems Programming
- Networks
- Rust
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Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing
- Testing
- Distributed Systems
- Storage
- Database Internals