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1. Partial writes, IO_Uring and safety - about one day from now
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5. Challenge: Giving file system developer ulcer - 12 days from now

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   10 Jan 2025 - IOPS vs. IOPS

RECENT COMMENTS

• There's a reason we miss `write_exact` and `read_exact` from the standard library. In fact, I am surprised the chunk is actua...
  By Pyth0n on Challenge: What does this code do?
• kpvleeuwen, I agree, unfortunately I don't have anyone to ask off the top of my head. Thanks, I fixed the headers.
  By Oren Eini on Performance discovery: IOPS vs. IOPS
• It could be interesting to reach out to storage firmware developers and ask what write patterns they think would be useful ex...
  By kpvleeuwen on Performance discovery: IOPS vs. IOPS
• Nicholas, You _can_ use the spread operator in RavenDB, which is what I assume you meant, like this: let results = ...
  By Oren Eini on Aggregating trees with RavenDB
• Unrelated, but the `Object.assign` call can be very annoying. Any chance that the JS engine was updated to V8 and we can hav...
  By Nicholas Paldino on Aggregating trees with RavenDB

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