<p>DDIA is great. I read and re-read the small section about LSM merge tree in the first and second edition of the book and got interested in this stuff. It is always a pleasure to read about internals.

<p>The Grug Brain article is fantastic, and even better if you run it through an LLM to convert from caveman. This thing is a gem.

<p>Thanks for a drop of humanity in this place. I feel saner

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