otoolep

5,064 karmajoined April 3, 2014On HN

Software Engineer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Engineering Manager at Google, building large-scale data systems. Creator of rqlite[1], the lightweight, distributed database built on SQLite.

https://www.philipotoole.com

[1] https://www.rqlite.io

Recent submissions

'Star Trek' Endures for the Next Generation, and the Next, and the Next nytimes.com
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Taking Control of the SQLite WAL philipotoole.com
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Proving to Fable I maintain the repo philipotoole.com
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Data integrity in rqlite: what it checks and what it doesn't rqlite.io
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Humanoid robots won't surprise us when they arrive philipotoole.com
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Taking Control of the SQLite WAL philipotoole.com
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The eerie abandoned vehicles in Chernobyl's 'dead zone'bbc.com
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How (and why) rqlite takes control of the SQLite Write-Ahead Log philipotoole.com
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Show HN: rqlite – the fault-tolerant DB built on SQLite – v10.0 released github.com/rqlite
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Open Decision-Making (2021)web.stanford.edu
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The source code was the moat. But not anymore philipotoole.com
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The Fall of the Nerds noahpinion.blog
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Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking philipotoole.com
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The Engineering Management Myths Star Trek Teaches (2022)philipotoole.com
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Common misunderstandings about large software companies philipotoole.com
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The liquid air alternative to fossil fuels bbc.com
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Common misunderstandings about large software companies philipotoole.com
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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past philipotoole.com
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The number one sign you're watching an AI video bbc.com
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rqlite 9.2 – the distributed SQLite database – fast restarts with GB datasets philipotoole.com
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OpenTelemetry Protocol Comes to Google Cloud Observability cloud.google.com
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rqlite 9.0: Real-Time Change Data Capture for Distributed SQLite philipotoole.com
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'You just can't recreate that glow': The people who hunt old TVs bbc.com
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rqlite 9.0: Real-Time Change Data Capture for Distributed SQLite philipotoole.com
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My development team costs $41.73 a month philipotoole.com
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Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem philipotoole.com
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Project Hyperion: crewed interstellar travel via generation ships projecthyperion.org
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The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting theatlantic.com
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The Developer's Manifesto for the Age of LLMs philipotoole.com
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GPT is writing the GitHub issues, Copilot is fixing them philipotoole.com
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