HPTS is the small, invitation-only workshop where the transaction-processing and storage crowd says what it really thinks, and Murat's trip reports are the next best thing to being there. The disk numbers from Dropbox are the bit to stop on: capacity has outrun bandwidth so far that reading a whole drive now takes about a day and a half.

An argument any kernel maintainer will recognise: the code that everything else depends on deserves the most patience, not the least. Zhang borrows from the slow food movement and ties effort to blast radius, which is a tidy way to say what reviewers have long felt. It is from July, but it has aged into exactly this moment.