Saturday, August 30, 2025

Cache in front of a slow database ?

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  Should You Front a Slow Database with a Cache? Most of us have been there: a slow database query is dragging down response times, dashboa...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Unsung Heroes Behind Your AI Coding Assistant

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While everyone's talking about ChatGPT and tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot transforming how we code, let's shine a l...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

JDK 21 Virtual threads: The end of regular threads ? Not quite.

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 A question I get asked all the time: If JDK 21 supports virtual threads, do I ever need to use regular threads ? Java 21 brought us virtual...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Understanding Isolation levels vs Consistency levels

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In databases, the terms isolation level and consistency level/model are sometimes used interchangeably. "Read repeatable" and ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

A non trivial concurrency example in Go language

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Overview In this blog I describe a non trivial concurrency example in the Go programming language. The code is part of my Dynago project  ht...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in databases

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Introduction Multi version concurrency control (MVCC) is a popular optimistic technique used in modern databases for concurrency control. MV...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Optimistic Concurrency Control In Databases

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Introduction Optimistic concurrency control refers to concurrency control in databases without the use of explicit locks. Traditionally it i...