I walk through the process of discovering the consequences of not having backpressure in a system

Distributed systems are a hard problem, and in this article I try to combine principles of building sans-io state machines with Deterministic Simulation Testing to try and make my life a little easier.

Bitcask is a key value store built on top of the principals of a hash table combined with the semantics of an LSM tree. This article is some notes from reading the original paper.