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🚀 Just discovered TigerBeetle DB – and it’s redefining what’s possible in financial database performance

As someone who’s spent years optimizing data storage performance, I’m genuinely impressed by TigerBeetle’s bold architectural choices: https://lnkd.in/eS3bfHHQ 🎯 Single-core design for maximum throughputInstead of fighting contention with complex locking, they funnel all writes through one optimized core. For high-contention financial workloads (think central bank switches processing millions of transactions), Read more

By jlu, 5 months2025-12-15 ago

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🚨 MinIO goes into maintenance mode

MinIO has just announced that the open source project is now in maintenance-only mode: no new features, no regular PR review, only best-effort community support.If your data lake, AI workloads or internal S3-compatible storage rely on MinIO, this is no longer a theoretical risk – it’s an operational one. Over Read more

By jlu, 5 months2025-12-15 ago

Better call an expert

Freelance Senior Solutions Architect helping companies design, harden, and scale their data, cloud, and AI platforms without blowing up cost or complexity. With 15+ years of experience (including a PhD in numerical optimization & AI and 10 years in HPC), I step in when performance, reliability, and scalability really matter: Read more

By jlu, 5 months2025-12-08 ago

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MinIO Tiering Warning: Data Loss and Fault Tolerance Issues

Introduction In the world of big data, storage solutions are the backbone of any architecture. As an expert solutions architect, I have relied on various storage solutions to ensure data integrity and availability. Recently, I discovered a critical flaw in MinIO’s tiering feature, introduced in RELEASE.2022-11-10T18-20-21Z and still present in Read more

By jlu, 5 months2025-12-06 ago

data

Thanos TSDB: How Default Configurations Can Lead to Silent Data Loss

Thanos is a widely adopted open-source project that extends Prometheus’ capabilities, offering long-term storage, global querying, and downsampling. It’s a powerful tool for monitoring and observability, but like any complex system, it has its quirks. Thanos is cloud native and use s3 as its main storage backend. It can have Read more

By jlu, 5 months2025-12-06 ago