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@BenjDicken Avatar @BenjDicken Ben Dicken

Ben Dicken posts on X about boring, ai, theory, in 2026 the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence boring 5.56%, ai 5.56%, theory 5.56%, in 2026 5.56%, rocksdb 5.56%, all the 5.56%, javascript 5.56%, glad 5.56%, to the 5.56%, token XXXX%

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"Think databases are boring Indexing data structures + algorithms AI RAG + learned indexes MVCC concurrent programming Sharding distributed systems Query parsing formal languages Query planning stats + optimization Replication distributed systems Authentication security WAL fault tolerance Storage file systems + caching Compression information theory Deadlock detection graph theory Databases encompass tons of interesting software engineering problems"
X Link 2025-11-30T14:24Z 18.3K followers, 181.4K engagements

"IO Devices and Latency is the most ambitious article I've written. Still figuring out how to top this in 2026. Taking ideas"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:24Z 18.3K followers, 53.7K engagements

"@KeshavS81752717 RocksDB sighting"
X Link 2025-11-30T21:05Z 18.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Want a fast database Choose your storage layer carefully. Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is great for low-I/O workloads but becomes a bottleneck or cost sink for heavy workloads. The two most common types of EBS are gp3 and io2. Both are network-attached storage backed by SSDs but have different performance characteristics. gp3 is more cost-effective but is limited on IOPS (16k max) and performs worse than io2. io2 goes all the way up to 64k IOPS (256k for block-express) and generally performs quite well but is EXPENSIVE. Upgrading from gp3 to io2 can easily 5x storage costs. The best performer"
X Link 2025-11-02T13:37Z 18.3K followers, 29.4K engagements

"LLMs that play nicely with pipes. Who's working on this"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:45Z 18.3K followers, 7877 engagements

"Daniel clearly hasn't seen the language balls"
X Link 2025-08-14T15:42Z 18.3K followers, 8.6M engagements

"Glad Anthropic bought the fast Js runtime"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:40Z 18.3K followers, 2.6M engagements

"Backpressure is key for well-behaved infrastructure. When databases message queues connection poolers or other systems get overloaded how do they deal with the pressure Some software responds by allowing their resources to exhaust and end up in a crash / failure state (OOM etc). This behavior is simple from an implementation perspective but causes cascading issues that can lead to total system failure and even data loss. Not good A better approach: each component applies backpressure to its clients. Backpressure is the idea that when a software service detects it is at or nearing capacity"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:55Z 18.3K followers, 34.6K engagements

"How I went from zero to a fully functioning Postgres Prometheus Grafana pipeline: - Open Claude code - Give it appropriate credentials and service token - Prompt it to build the data pipeline with pointers to the PlanetScale docs That's how I got this (real) screenshot"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:18Z 18.3K followers, 3965 engagements

"@samwhoo Indeed. For this I put the creds in a file and told Claude they existed but of course that doesn't stop it from reading and pushing those remotely. There are safer ways to do this for production"
X Link 2025-12-11T19:00Z 18.3K followers, XX engagements