Grivine Bala (@balagrivine)

The Anatomy Of A Process

Hiring is a process... and so is firing. None of those are the processes we'll be discussing today. They're probably better covered by HR professionals than a software engineer with a keyboard and que

Jun 3 · 4 min readbala-grivine.hashnode.dev

Caching Will Humble You

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton I recently took on a side-quest to refactor one of the applications I first worked on when joi

May 13 · 5 min readbala-grivine.hashnode.dev

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

From Google's SRE book; "The cost of failure is education." Devin Carraway Yesterday; okay, might not be yesterday depending on when you bump into this :), I decided to explore the idea of having a

Apr 25 · 3 min readbala-grivine.hashnode.dev

The WAL Hole Problem

TL;DR Too Short;Just Read If a WAL write is interrupted by a Unix signal, or completes as a short write, the kernel may leave a zero-filled gap at the reserved offset. During crash recovery, TidesDB'

Apr 18 · 8 min readbala-grivine.hashnode.dev

When should you fsync directories?

My previous article talked about promises of disk durability, and the fact that you could still lose data even after fsync()-ing a file. This will be a short blog that builds over the previous one, bu

Apr 11 · 4 min readbala-grivine.hashnode.dev

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The Anatomy Of A Process

Caching Will Humble You

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

The WAL Hole Problem

When should you fsync directories?

Grivine Bala

About

Available for

Grivine Bala's blogs

The Anatomy Of A Process

Caching Will Humble You

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

The WAL Hole Problem

When should you fsync directories?

Grivine Bala

About

Available for

Grivine Bala's blogs

The Anatomy Of A Process

Caching Will Humble You

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

The WAL Hole Problem

When should you fsync directories?

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Grivine Bala

About

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Grivine Bala's blogs

The Anatomy Of A Process

Caching Will Humble You

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

The WAL Hole Problem

When should you fsync directories?