Alex Miller
@AlexMillerDB
Databases. See also @[email protected] or @alexmillerdb.bsky.app
The South Bay Systems meetup is back on July 22! We're excited to welcome @jacopotagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa). Jacopo will share his experience in building a…
I had missed @ssougou's blog post series on consensus when it was originally posted. I really like the perspective of breaking down Raft/Paxos/etc. into the individual actions that comprise consensus. planetscale.com/blog/consensus…
I ran across a pretty nice x86 SIMD intrinsics cheat sheet: db.in.tum.de/~finis/x86-int… Thanks @jpfinis!
A month after building that construction SaaS prototype, I found myself working on something completely different: reimagining distributed programming paradigms in Java. Context: Building Wavefront taught me the value of solid infrastructure foundations. We chose FoundationDB…
[arXiv] TreeTracker Join: Simple, Optimal, Fast arxiv.org/abs/2403.01631 TreeTracker gives a very simple breakdown of what the core differences are between a naive binary join and an optimal multi-way join.
![AlexMillerDB's tweet image. [arXiv] TreeTracker Join: Simple, Optimal, Fast
arxiv.org/abs/2403.01631
TreeTracker gives a very simple breakdown of what the core differences are between a naive binary join and an optimal multi-way join.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gt2kcQBXkAA-ZDZ.jpg)
Wisdom on btree prefix compression from someone who has implemented and benchmarked it. From lobste.rs/s/za4cxl/b_tre…
Working with several seed/series A infra startups (databases, storage, distributed systems, foundational AI infra) hiring across core engineering and GTM. Small teams (<20), high-agency IC roles. DM me if interested or you have referrals!
[arXiv] Compressing integer lists with Contextual Arithmetic Trits arxiv.org/abs/2209.02089 Which was an interesting skim, partly just because I've never seen trits (bit in base 3) applied to solve a problem effectively before.
![AlexMillerDB's tweet image. [arXiv] Compressing integer lists with Contextual Arithmetic Trits
arxiv.org/abs/2209.02089
Which was an interesting skim, partly just because I've never seen trits (bit in base 3) applied to solve a problem effectively before.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gqc-eNdXsAAaobX.png)
[arXiv] BMTree: Designing, Learning, and Updating Piecewise Space-Filling Curves for Multi-Dimensional Data Indexing arxiv.org/abs/2505.01697 I've seen a lot of morton/hilbert curves before, but learning a space filling curve and adapting it to the data distribution is new to me.
![AlexMillerDB's tweet image. [arXiv] BMTree: Designing, Learning, and Updating Piecewise Space-Filling Curves for Multi-Dimensional Data Indexing
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01697
I've seen a lot of morton/hilbert curves before, but learning a space filling curve and adapting it to the data distribution is new to me.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqaAPhdXUAARtu2.png)
![AlexMillerDB's tweet image. [arXiv] BMTree: Designing, Learning, and Updating Piecewise Space-Filling Curves for Multi-Dimensional Data Indexing
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01697
I've seen a lot of morton/hilbert curves before, but learning a space filling curve and adapting it to the data distribution is new to me.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqaAPiMWsAALGgW.jpg)