Pat Helland’s blog on distributed computing, database implementation, software engineering, and other irrelevant stuff.

I’ve been building databases, transactions, distributed systems, fault tolerant systems, messaging systems, and application platforms since 1978 at various companies including Tandem, Microsoft, Amazon, and now Salesforce.

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Building distributed systems and databases since 1978. Love learning, building, and helping others learn. Work at Salesforce.