These are some shorter thoughts that don't have the length or care of a longer post, but I wanted to share anyway.

19 Mar 2023 — Partially Ordered A*

29 Jul 2022 — Two-Phase Commit Three Ways

28 Jan 2022 — Functional Dependencies and Armstrong's Axioms For Query Optimization

21 Nov 2021 — Versioned Iterators

11 Jan 2019 — Why do Databases Require Client-Side Retries

23 Jun 2018 — Storing Small Sets With Special Strings

22 Apr 2018 — A Mild Generalization of Linearizability