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# Reads #3

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# Reads #3

- [So You Want To Build A Browser Engine](https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html) — This article goes deep into all the complicated things involved in making a browser engine. It's amazing how browsers keep getting better and adding more features while maintaining all the required complexity.
- [Databricks, Snowflake and the future](https://www.blef.fr/databricks-snowflake-and-the-future/?ref=data-news-newsletter/) — This piece tells you about the recent meetings of Snowflake and Databricks. It focuses on how they are putting money into Apache Iceberg.
- [The time I spent three months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixed it in 1 line of code](https://buttondown.email/jaffray/archive/in-codd-we-trust-or-not/) — This is an interesting story about someone spending three months trying to fix a really old bug. And how they only needed one line of code to solve it. Nice read about debugging software and hardware.
- [Local, first, forever](https://tonsky.me/blog/crdt-filesync/) — An insightful article on the local-first philosophy and the implementation of services without reliance on a centralized server. Includes an introduction to CRDT and a sample implementation.
- [What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around...](https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec2024.pdf) — A retrospective review of the evolution of relational database management systems over the past two decades. It gives a good overview of how things are and how have evolved.
- [A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability](https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-07-01-a-write-ahead-log-is-not-a-universal-part-of-durability.html) — Explores the concept of durability in databases, challenging the notion of a write-ahead log as a universal component.
- [Unix's fsync(), write ahead logs, and durability versus integrity](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/FsyncDurabilityVsIntegrity) — Expands on Phil Eaton's post about database durability, incorporating the crucial aspect of integrity into the discussion.
- [The Right Kind of Stubborn](https://paulgraham.com/persistence.html) — Paul Graham talks about two types of stubbornesss: persistence and obstinacy. He explains that it's good to keep going when you need to, but it's bad when you won't change your mind.

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