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storage-layout
- Oct 8, 2025 Which ALTER TABLE Statements Rewrite the Table and Which Only Touch the Catalogue How engines decide between a catalogue edit and a full table copy, what the fast-default and instant-column mechanisms store instead, and where the boundary sits. databases
- May 8, 2024 Packfiles and Delta Chains: How Git Stores Similar Objects Once The pack and index file formats, how delta instructions rebuild an object from a base, and what chain depth costs on read. developer tools