Sophia Hawes-Tingey

In Designing Data-Intensive Appilications , Martin Kleppman points out that you don’t need to operate at Google scale. Developers need to be aware of the constraints and trade-offs that occur in a distributed system. He goes into issues that arise when data is distributed. In Parts I and II , the discussion concerning all the major considerations that are involved in a distributed database assume there is only one database in an application. Applications commonly use a combination of...

In When the Tides Held the Moon , by Venessa Vida Kelley, Río lies with his head against driftwood. Two months of Brooklyn’s tap appears to be too much for a merman’s power of purification. Benny whispers to his amor to see if he is awake.  In Tom Sawyer Abroad,  by Mark Twain, Tom says the professor is so quiet that he must be asleep, and pauses when he says they better. Huck asks, “Better what?” Tom replies that they better slip back to the professor, tie him up, and land the ship. In...

In Brigands and Breadknives , by Travis Baldree, Bradlee asks Fern if she just absconded in the night. Finding it weird to talk to sentient cutlery, Fern claims it was a accident, to which Bradles says it “seems like a pretty long-running accident.” In a later scene, a pile of planks and pulled nails lie beside a door. The room smells pungently of goats. A brown-and-white-spotted nanny regards the group with disdain. It’s still getting hard to get used to the daylight shift. On November 16, I...