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Verified Instructor15+ Years in Storage Engines
Marcus Vance
Principal Storage Architect ยท Distributed Database Core Contributor
Database engine engineer specializing in LSM-tree compaction, Raft/Paxos consensus algorithms, and distributed write-ahead logging.
Publications & Courses by Marcus Vance
๐ฐ Newsletter
METERED
5.0(3840)
120,000+
Engineering#Architecture#Distributed Systems
The System Design & Architecture Newsletter
Weekly visual blueprints of distributed systems, scalability patterns, and high-volume architectures.
๐ฐ Newsletter
METERED
4.9(1650)
64,000+
Databases#Databases#Raft
Database Internals & Storage Teardowns
Weekly deep dives into write-ahead logs, Raft consensus, LSM compaction, and query optimizers.
๐ Structured Course
METERED
4.9(1120)
28,000+
Databases#Databases#Storage
Distributed Storage & Database Internals
LSM-Trees, B-Trees, Raft Consensus, Distributed Transactions, and Sharding at Scale.