Richard Bishop
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Richard Bishop
@richardb.bsky.social
Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.

Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
Fun high level overview on Meta's infrastructure approach. I enjoyed this bit about fault-tolerant commodity hardware, which AWS had to pivot on to expensive, more reliable hardware due to their customers not building fault-tolerant services. cacm.acm.org/research/met...
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