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Re:"I'm fortunate to have a call with the Bluesky back end t... by jauntywundrkind on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:00PM (#42159282)
> In a way, what we've done is custom-built a database by turning it inside-out. We simplified the canonical storage into a NoSQL cluster, and then built our own querying engine with the view servers. It's a lot less convenient to build with, but it scales.

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

Turning the database inside out? Where have I heard that before... Oh, right,

Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza (2014), https://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/09/18/turning-database-ins...

Further, Martin's Designing Data Intensive Applicarions (2017) is a very very well respected book that encompasses these ideas & more.

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