Archive - Arjun Narayan blog

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

July 2023

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

December 2020

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

May 2018

The Philosophy of Computational Complexity

Has there been progress in philosophy? Yes, in theoretical computer science.

May 27, 2018

March 2018

A History of Transaction Histories

I’ve been trying to understand database transactions for a long time, and recently spent some time researching this with Justin Jaffray. Here’s an…

Mar 30, 2018

August 2006

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

Aug 29, 2006

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