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Jan 12, 2025 | 
jamestown.org | Peter Mattis
The challenges that face the United States and allies require greater understanding on the parts of both government and society. Democratic governance means shared responsibilities. Citizens are not subjects. Open source is the only way to share information and develop a common understanding between our national security communities and everyone else.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
jamestown.org | Peter Mattis
At The Jamestown Foundation, we focus most of our efforts on understanding the world from the Bering Strait and the South China Sea to the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. The strength of our work comes from our analysts who reside in more than 30 countries and have direct, first-hand experience with the countries and developments they analyze. Too often, however, the presentation of analysis follows the pursuit of objectivity in sanitizing the writing and removing the analyst’s experience.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Eliot A. Cohen |Peter Mattis |Dominic Green |Niha Masih
Quotes of the Day:“We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”- John F. Kennedy"What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from."- Daniel Humm“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”- E.P. Powell1.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
jamestown.org | Peter Mattis
In his opening remarks this week to US President Joe Biden, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping said “The China-US relationship, which is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, should be perceived and envisioned in a broad context of the accelerating global transformations unseen in a century” (Youtube.com, November 15).
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
jamestown.org | Peter Mattis |Zoe Moore
Last week, the Taiwan High Court found retired air force Colonel Liu Sheng-shu (劉聖恕) and five serving military officers guilty of espionage for China. The court sentenced Colonel Liu and two of his co-conspirators to approximately 20 years in prison, marking some of the harshest sentencing for espionage in recent years (Taipei Times, October 26). Liu’s spy ring is one of at least 11 rings Taiwanese authorities have broken up over the last two years.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Peter Mattis
One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering. Since our initial launch, Cockroach Labs has used semantic versioning in our release cycle guidelines. Two years, one major release, and n-patch fixes later, we're making the switch to Calendar Versioning. This means subscribers to our release notes will see quite the jump in today's version numbering, from last week's 2.1.5 to today's 19.1 beta. Why the switch?
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Peter Mattis
<!–– Outdated blog post alert! CockroachDB no longer stores each non-primary-key column in a separate value by default. By default, all data in a table is stored in the same column family. Gory details available here. ––!>SQL? I thought CockroachDB was a key-value store?!? In the past we described CockroachDB as a distributed, transactionally consistent, key-value store.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Peter Mattis
As we’ve built CockroachDB, correctness has been our primary concern. But as we’ve drawn closer to our beta launch, we’ve had to start paying significantly more attention to performance. The design of CockroachDB always kept performance and scalability in mind, but when you start measuring performance, there are inevitably surprises. This is the story of the detection, investigation, and fix of just one performance bug. First, a little context about CockroachDB for those new to the project.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Peter Mattis
Competition is good. It focuses your energies. It keeps you sharp and pushes you to be better. At Cockroach Labs we welcome competition. It hasn’t escaped our notice that a new entrant in the database landscape is frequently comparing themselves against us, making claims about their performance and functionality vis-a-vis our own. We decided to take a closer look. This is our analysis of CockroachDB vs Yugabyte v2.0.0. All benchmark comparisons were done with CockroachDB v19.2.0.TLDR: CockroachDB vs.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Peter Mattis
[ Guides ] O'Reilly Definitive Guide to CockroachDB We wrote the book on building unkillable apps. Literally. Get Free Copy Disasters happen. (Most) outages shouldn’t. When multi-billion dollar companies like Zoom, Slack, and Fanduel experience outages, the reaction from users tends to be anger and surprise. Anger, because people need to get their work done and set their fantasy football lineups. Surprise, because it’s 2022. Isn’t high availability the norm? Not all outages are created equal.
