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Database internals, performance and deterministic simulation testing.
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Tobi
TigerBeetle is a transaction-processing database. Its double-entry accounting primitives are simple and powerful: they can represent the movement or exchange of any quantity, including financial transactions such as real-time payments, billing, or credits, and non-financial…
Chaitanya Bhandari
Brian Anderson
I tested the top 100 Rust crates on crates.io for backwards compatibility. Then I removed every dependency from the TigerBeetle Rust client and backported it to Rust 1.39, from 2019.
matklad
I hate shell scripting with a passion. Whenever I join a project, I go on a crusade to rewrite all bash scripts into the project’s main language. I have Java For Everything tattooed on my arm (no). The code I’ve written at TigerBeetle that I am most proud of is this:
Joran Dirk Greef
We processed a trillion transactions to test TigerBeetle’s scale.
matklad
Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things.
Lewis Daly
Time is like a river made up of events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place. — Meditations, Book IV
matklad
Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress…
matklad
Somewhat accidentally, we recorded an impromptu ~2 hour lecture explaining the mathematics behind consensus algorithms, using a Go Pro fisheye—the camera on hand 🤣
Dominik Tornow
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge: