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This Week in RisingWave #6 (20230325)

This week, I talked about NULLS {FIRST | LAST}, renaming relations, bushy tree, zld, open source and more.

This Week in RisingWave #5 (20230318)

The exciting things happening in RisingWave

This Week in RisingWave #4 (20230310)

The exciting things happening in RisingWave

This Week in RisingWave #3 (20230304)

The exciting things happening in RisingWave

This Week in RisingWave #2 (20230225)

The exciting things happening in RisingWave

This Week in RisingWave #1 (20230217)

RisingWave is a distributed SQL database for stream processing written in Rust. As a developer of RisingWave, I’m always excited (and also a little bit overw...

Stupidly effective ways to optimize Rust compile time

How I reduced 10 minutes of CI time without much effort

我如何动动小手就让 CI 时间减少了 10 分钟

Stupidly effective ways to optimize Rust compile time

Profiling 101

A beginner’s guide to profiling

递归改写成迭代的通用方法

递归是像呼吸一般自然的事情。 ——罗宸《谈递归（一）：递归的五种定式》

为啥 Paxos 这么难？

因为它需要一种不同的思维方式

Why is Paxos Hard?

Because it requires a different mindset

从接口视角看密码学原语

现代密码学主要是建立在问题的困难性上的：解密相当于求解一个困难的数学问题。这些精妙的构造是人类智慧的精华，要想完全理解他们，需要不少的数学基础。但其实密码学也是模块化的，它提供了各种基础的原语，作为对密码学没那么感兴趣的普通人，尤其是开发者，我们可以先不用完全搞懂里面的数学问题，而是看它提供了什么样的接口，保证了...

MIT 6.824 Lab3 KVRaft 笔记

本以为写完 Raft 以后，在 Raft 上搭一个 app 想必是行云流水。事实证明我错了，又是踩了许多坑。 T_T

MIT 6.824 Lab2 Raft 笔记

最近终于自己动手做了一下大名鼎鼎的 MIT 6.824 Lab。因为 6.824 的资料已经有太多了，像介绍 Raft、介绍 Lab 之类的东西就不必再提了，另外 Raft 确实是名副其实的 understandable，算法很容易看懂，而且实现细节在 paper 中都体现得很好（Figure 2 is extr...