Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)

kept by eddie dec 31, 25

The Fifth Edition of the Red Book collects opinionated readings on database research, from classic RDBMS to weak isolation and large-scale dataflow engines.

How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
Tailscale engineers and SQLite developers collaborated to identify and fix a rare data race bug in SQLite's WAL checkpointing that caused months of database corruption in Tailscale's control plane.
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charles leifer | Redis and the Cost of Ambition
Charles Leifer argues Redis lost focus by chasing every new database trend, abandoning its simple data-structure-server identity, a shift driven by VC-backed ambition that Valkey now capitalizes on by sticking to core strengths.
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