Phil Eaton

Cassandra Team at Apple is searching for a fresh grad / person early in their career to join our ranks in SF/Bay Area! Come work on super interesting problems with world class team. Help us build better Cassandra! Ping me if you’re interested! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

Hear me out: a YouTube show where two distributed systems experts screen-share and live-annotate new papers + asking questions, + predicting what’s next, + dunking on unclear diagrams, and + geeking out over clever ideas in the paper. basically: Twitch meets SOSP/OSDI

In the past, people without JVM knowledge tuned JVMs based on random data from the Internet. Nowadays, people without JVM knowledge and no understanding of LLMs tune JVMs based on recommendations from LLMs which were trained on the same random data. Is this progress?

[new blog post] Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/07/serial…

Attention, South Bay folk! We have The Databaseologist, @andy_pavlo, giving a talk in the bay on August 6th. Come join us for a great time in hearing: ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! The Future of Automated Database Tuning Register now! lu.ma/ha0dc4nj

Packed room at the South Bay Systems Meetup last night! Thank you to everyone who joined us: engineers, students, tech leaders, and curious minds alike. It was incredible to see such a vibrant and engaged crowd come together around systems and infrastructure. A huge shoutout to…

Leaking in TopMemoryContext? It might not show up in Valgrind, but it’s still there. @eatonphil uses #jemalloc to trace leaks while #Postgres is running—full diffs + jeprof output included. 🔗enterprisedb.com/blog/debugging…

This role is still open! Looking for a “GPU trader” who can work with me and optimize our resource management. Someone who loves statistics and algos and probably has a background in trading or data science.

Am I the only one thinking it’s time to explore the connections between DB and PL? Maybe a coffee group.