When the core problem is technically hard and the feedback you actually need comes from a small number of sophisticated users rather than an X audience, disappearing for a focused build cycle has…

This is one of the things I considered most carefully while I was building Sirannon. Nothing on Sirannon's write path calls a storage client, because the WAL is a file on the same disk, from which…

A benchmark number with no machine named is decoration. Throughput depends on the processor, the memory ceiling, the disk, whether the engines ran at the same time or one after another, and how much…