Links to interesting articles I’ve run across:

Andy Pavlo – Databases in 2024: A Year in Review: Dr. Pavlo teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, here’s his wrap-up of what happened with databases in 2024.

Matt Blewitt – 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025: A good overview of 7 database management systems.

Adam Montgomery – How I Build: Adam lists the tools that he uses to develop software.

Stephen Wolfram – Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure: An in-depth account of how and what a tech CEO uses to create. The article is from 2019, but I’ve re-read this several times.

Matt Mullenweg – What’s in My Bag, 2025: What he carries in his work bag.

Railway – So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center: An account of building out their servers in a colocation center.

Alex Murrell – The Age of Average: Design and how things are looking the same.