storage

2 posts with the tag “storage”

How append-only survives a crash

Jul 27, 2026 - 4 min read

The interesting moment in any storage engine is kill -9 in the middle of a write. ScrivaDB’s crash story is three unglamorous rules — append-only, truncate the torn tail on open, and CRC32C every record — that together mean a crash can cost you the last write but never a record that was already there.

When a file is your database

Jul 27, 2026 - 5 min read

Srajan Pathak

ScrivaDB author

Half the time you reach for a database, what you actually needed was a file you could trust. ScrivaDB is the space between json.Marshal to disk and standing up Postgres — durable, queryable, and still just text you can cat.