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TigerBeetle Blog
The financial transactions database to power the next 30 years of Online Transaction Processing.
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Index, Count, Offset, Size
Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things.
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Memory Copy Hunting
I have a super power. I want to share it in this blog post so that you, my dear reader, also have it!
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A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)
Consider this tale of I/O and performance. We’ll start with blocking I/O, explore io_uring and kqueue, and take home an event loop very similar to some software you may find familiar.
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The write last, read first rule
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge:
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Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
In July 2020, I stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing.