Arjun Narayan blog

Arjun Narayan

I’m Arjun Narayan. I’m an investor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist.

Aug 29, 2006

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The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of all the Lies

Over on the Materialize blog I wrote a piece on database isolation, and what goes wrong when you have weak isolation.

Jun 5, 2024

The Uses and Abuses of Cloud Data Warehouses

Over on the Materialize blog, I wrote a piece about what often goes wrong in data infrastructure.

Jul 27, 2023

Kafka is not a database

Over on the Materialize blog I wrote a post about what Kafka does and doesn't do.

Dec 8, 2020

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