- MAY 2026
Notes from compaction hell
Three months of LSM compaction tuning at production scale — the latency tail we measured, the four configuration changes that actually moved P99, and the one we wish we'd made on day one.
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Snapshot isolation, in practice
What snapshot isolation gives you, what it doesn't, the write-skew anomaly that still bites, and the one application pattern that fixes most real cases.