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Marc Brooker
brooker.co.za · Personal developer blogs · English
- Posts on record
- 163
- First published
- 10 January 2012
- Last published
- 29 July 2026
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Writing Is Magic
/blog/2022/11/08/writing.html
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Tail Latency Might Matter More Than You Think
/blog/2021/04/19/latency.html
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DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story
/blog/2024/12/03/aurora-dsql.html
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What about juniors?
/blog/2026/03/25/ic-junior.html
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The power of two random choices
/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html
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Simple Simulations for System Builders
/blog/2022/04/11/simulation.html
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Formal Methods Only Solve Half My Problems
/blog/2022/06/02/formal.html
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The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise
/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
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MemoryDB: Speed, Durability, and Composition.
/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html
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On the success of 'natural language programming'
/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
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DynamoDB's Best Feature: Predictability
/blog/2022/01/19/predictability.html
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Fixing retries with token buckets and circuit breakers
/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html
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Erasure Coding versus Tail Latency
/blog/2023/01/06/erasure.html
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How Do You Spend Your Time?
/blog/2024/02/06/time.html
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It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
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Snapshot Isolation vs Serializability
/blog/2024/12/17/occ-and-isolation.html
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Career advice, or something like it
/blog/2025/06/20/career.html
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Is Systems Research Really Just About Making Numbers Bigger?
/blog/2025/10/12/barbarians.html
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Why Strong Consistency?
/blog/2025/11/18/consistency.html
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