https://loams.dev/blog Engineering notes on building Loams, the AI-native cloud on object storage. en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://loams.dev/blog/ground-you-ownhttps://loams.dev/blog/ground-you-ownFri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecure, owned land has helped many families build wealth and pass it on, and its denial and theft did lasting harm. A short, sourced history, and why we think the difference between renting and owning applies to your cloud.Dinakaranopinionhistoryownershipself-hosting https://loams.dev/blog/what-pied-piper-got-righthttps://loams.dev/blog/what-pied-piper-got-rightFri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHBO's Silicon Valley pitched a new internet that ran on other people's phones. We want the same thing, minus the strangers' phones, the single owner and the encryption incident. A light read on tenants, owners, fences and landlords.Dinakaranopinionhumorself-hostingownership https://loams.dev/blog/where-the-wal-liveshttps://loams.dev/blog/where-the-wal-livesMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA sourced survey of who builds databases on S3 and how. turbopuffer, LanceDB, Neon, WarpStream, S2, SlateDB, Quickwit, Iceberg, Snowflake, Databricks, TiDB X, Bufstream and AutoMQ, compared on write path, caching, consistency, cost, tenancy and formats. Then where Loams fits, and where it does not.Dinakaranresearchobject-storagearchitecturestoragestreaming https://loams.dev/blog/hybrid-retrieval-fusionhttps://loams.dev/blog/hybrid-retrieval-fusionMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat the papers and the shipping engines say about combining BM25 and vector results, why score normalization is where most hybrid setups go wrong, what k in RRF actually does, how to evaluate a fusion choice, the production details (per-signal top-k, filtering, pagination), and exactly what Loams does and does not do today.Dinakaranresearchretrievalhybrid-searchvector-searchevaluation https://loams.dev/blog/what-agents-need-from-infrastructurehttps://loams.dev/blog/what-agents-need-from-infrastructureMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA survey with primary sources of agent memory (MemGPT and Letta, Mem0, Zep and Graphiti, supermemory, LangGraph), durable execution (Temporal, Restate, Inngest, DBOS, Resonate), sandboxes (Firecracker, gVisor, E2B, Modal, Daytona, Cloudflare), coding-agent harnesses and the security research on agents. Then what most stacks get wrong, and where Loams stands, with each piece labelled by its status.Dinakaranresearchagentssecuritydurable-executionmemorysandbox https://loams.dev/blog/postgres-on-object-storagehttps://loams.dev/blog/postgres-on-object-storageMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Neon splits Postgres into a stateless compute, a Paxos WAL service and a pageserver that keeps layer files in a bucket; how Aurora, AlloyDB, OrioleDB, Xata, Nile, Lakebase and PlanetScale answer the same question; and what Loams changed in Loams Postgres, its hard fork of Neon, and why.Dinakaranresearchpostgresneonobject-storagestorage https://loams.dev/blog/why-the-engine-never-faces-the-internethttps://loams.dev/blog/why-the-engine-never-faces-the-internetMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelf-hosting a data platform on your own tailnet. The threat model, what zero trust and WireGuard actually give you, a decade of exposed Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis and ClickHouse instances, the four auth modes, the console that talks to your engine over your tailnet, BYOC over SSH, and what is still not hardened in 0.1.0.Dinakaranresearchsecuritytailscaleself-hosting https://loams.dev/blog/a-distributed-kv-is-all-you-needhttps://loams.dev/blog/a-distributed-kv-is-all-you-needSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy one TiKV cluster, with Raft, Percolator transactions and keyspaces, is the transactional spine under Loams' metadata, Live, durable state and Loams SQL. And the four things a KV is bad at, where we use the bucket or a log instead.Dinakaranopinionarchitecturetikvstorage https://loams.dev/blog/postgres-wire-protocolhttps://loams.dev/blog/postgres-wire-protocolSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow a Postgres connection is framed, encrypted and authenticated, why SSLRequest breaks ordinary SNI routers, how Loams serves the protocol twice (real Postgres on Loams Postgres, and a read-only listener over collections), and how the planned loams-gateway routes by SNI without taking PgDog's keys.Dinakaranprotocolspostgressql https://loams.dev/blog/mysql-wire-protocolhttps://loams.dev/blog/mysql-wire-protocolSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow a MySQL connection is framed and negotiated, why the server speaking first makes routing hard, how loams-sqlgate greets, authenticates and relays for Loams SQL on TiDB, and the small read-only MySQL listener over collections.Dinakaranprotocolsmysqlsql https://loams.dev/blog/arrow-flight-sql-and-adbchttps://loams.dev/blog/arrow-flight-sql-and-adbcSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Arrow Flight frames data over gRPC, how Flight SQL packs SQL into it, where ADBC sits on top, and what the Loams engine serves today: read-only SQL over collections, bulk ingest through DoPut, and self-contained tickets any node can run.Dinakaranprotocolsarrowsql https://loams.dev/blog/qdrant-apihttps://loams.dev/blog/qdrant-apiSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Qdrant's REST and gRPC APIs are shaped, why Loams serves them unchanged so LangChain and LlamaIndex vector stores work without a code change, how loams-qdrant maps points onto Loams collections, and every place we deliberately differ.Dinakaranprotocolsqdrantvector-search https://loams.dev/blog/elasticsearch-api-and-query-dslhttps://loams.dev/blog/elasticsearch-api-and-query-dslSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Elasticsearch's REST API negotiates versions, frames bulk writes as NDJSON and expresses search in the Query DSL, why Loams serves a subset chosen by what AI frameworks actually send, how loams-es compiles it, and where it parts from Elasticsearch 8.19.Dinakaranprotocolselasticsearchsearch https://loams.dev/blog/connect-rpchttps://loams.dev/blog/connect-rpcSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow the Connect protocol frames unary and streaming calls, how it differs from gRPC and gRPC-Web, and why every Loams application API is a Connect service on one port that curl, grpcurl and a browser can all call.Dinakaranprotocolsapigrpc https://loams.dev/blog/s3-api-bucket-contracthttps://loams.dev/blog/s3-api-bucket-contractSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLoams does not serve S3, it consumes it, and every durable byte depends on a handful of S3 behaviours being exactly right. SigV4, ranged reads, multipart, conditional writes and strong consistency, what Loams requires of any S3 store, and how we test it.Dinakaranprotocolsobject-storageengineering https://loams.dev/blog/git-smart-protocol-and-remote-helpershttps://loams.dev/blog/git-smart-protocol-and-remote-helpersSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpkt-lines, capability advertisement, protocol v2's ls-refs and fetch, receive-pack for pushes, and the remote-helper protocol that lets `git push` write straight to object storage through git-remote-loams. What exists today, and what Smart HTTP and monorepo mode add.Dinakaranprotocolsgitobject-storage https://loams.dev/blog/model-context-protocolhttps://loams.dev/blog/model-context-protocolSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Model Context Protocol's JSON-RPC messages, handshake, transports and auth; the stdio MCP server Loams' agent daemon injects into every coding-agent run today; and the stateless HTTP surface planned for the engine.Dinakaranprotocolsagentsmcp https://loams.dev/blog/clickhouse-http-interfacehttps://loams.dev/blog/clickhouse-http-interfaceSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTClickHouse's HTTP interface is the simplest database protocol in wide use, a query in a POST body and the answer in the format you ask for. How it works, why Loams House speaks it before ClickHouse's native protocol, and what the House accepts, refuses and does differently.Dinakaranprotocolsclickhouseanalytics https://loams.dev/blog/kafka-wire-protocolhttps://loams.dev/blog/kafka-wire-protocolSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Kafka frames requests, negotiates versions with ApiVersions, authenticates with SASL and lays out record batch v2. Why Loams stores Kafka's batch format already, why the Loams-side gateway is deferred in favour of contributing to Apache Iggy's, and what a Kafka front end over Loams streams has to get right. Planned.Dinakaranprotocolskafkastreams https://loams.dev/blog/otlphttps://loams.dev/blog/otlpSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow the OpenTelemetry Protocol carries logs, traces and metrics over gRPC and HTTP, what partial success and its retry rules mean for a receiver, and Loams' plan to take OTLP logs into streams so Fluent Bit, the Collector and Vector ship to Loams with no plugin. Planned.Dinakaranprotocolsopentelemetrystreams https://loams.dev/blog/iceberg-rest-cataloghttps://loams.dev/blog/iceberg-rest-catalogSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Iceberg REST catalog protocol is how every engine finds, reads and commits an Iceberg table. How /v1/config, loadTable, credential vending and commits with requirements and updates work, how Loams House already speaks it as a client to Lakekeeper, and the plan to make Loams tables readable by DuckDB, Spark, Trino and ClickHouse through it.Dinakaranprotocolsiceberganalytics https://loams.dev/blog/loams-data-apihttps://loams.dev/blog/loams-data-apiSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn open, Apache-2.0 spec for running SQL against Postgres, Loams SQL and the engine over Connect, with no driver and no held connection. Statement batches, batons for interactive transactions, idempotency keys recorded inside the transaction, typed retry-aware errors, dry runs, budgets, Arrow results, live queries and a safety profile for agents. Draft v0, not implemented yet.Dinakaranprotocolssqlagents https://loams.dev/blog/cloudeventshttps://loams.dev/blog/cloudeventsSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCloudEvents 1.0 defines what an event is (id, source, type, specversion) and how it rides on HTTP and Kafka in binary and structured modes. How Loams streams ingest and serve CloudEvents today, deduplicating by source and id, why we wrote our own codec, and the Loams profile that the rest of the platform is converging on.Dinakaranprotocolscloudeventsstreams https://loams.dev/blog/a-software-factory-you-ownhttps://loams.dev/blog/a-software-factory-you-ownSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoogle and Meta built their own software factories. Everyone else rents one in pieces, and coding agents are about to rent the loop as well. The open-source parts are good enough to own now. What we ship in Loams today, what we are designing, and what we are not sure about.Dinakaranresearchsoftware-factoryagentsself-hostingopen-source https://loams.dev/blog/open-source-infra-trends-autumn-2026https://loams.dev/blog/open-source-infra-trends-autumn-2026Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA field survey of the open-source repositories that gained the most attention from August to October 2026, by category. Agent harnesses, memory layers, code graphs, MCP, graph engines on object storage, Postgres for agents, local tools. Momentum with sources and dates, why each is growing, what it means if you build on it, and where Loams fits.Dinakaranresearchagentsmemorymcpobject-storageopen-sourcetrends https://loams.dev/blog/the-harness-is-an-objecthttps://loams.dev/blog/the-harness-is-an-objectSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Loams took from Endo and Jason Duncan's essay "The Harness Is an Object", how forty years of object-capability security turn its algebra into rules a machine can check, and the proposed Loams Jailer, a deterministic policy layer with an LLM overseer that is reasoning-blind and may only tighten. Both designs are Proposed; nothing here ships yet.Dinakaranresearchagentssecuritycapabilitiessandbox https://loams.dev/blog/git-on-the-buckethttps://loams.dev/blog/git-on-the-bucketSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoogle's Piper and CitC, Cursor's Continuity, Enroute's Raft ledger and layers, and Anthropic's Scion, read side by side for one question each. Where a push is ordered, what a workspace is, who merges, and what sits between a laptop and the store. Then the five changes Loams Git took from them (D1025 to D1029), and what ships in 0.1.0 and what does not, each marked with its status.Dinakaranresearchgitmonorepoobject-storageagents https://loams.dev/blog/agent-memory-as-datahttps://loams.dev/blog/agent-memory-as-dataSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat we took from four systems while designing Loams Memory. Mem0 on why judging memories at write time is costly, Graphiti and Zep on episodes and facts with two clocks, and HydraDB on keeping a graph index fresh from its own log. Then how those ideas land on collections, a linked graph and the Loams log, what we deliberately left out, and where each piece stands.Dinakaranresearchagentsmemorygraphretrieval https://loams.dev/blog/reactive-and-sync-databases-teardownhttps://loams.dev/blog/reactive-and-sync-databases-teardownSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Convex, Supabase Realtime, Firestore, Zero and Replicache, ElectricSQL, PowerSync, InstantDB, Triplit and LiveStore turn a query into a subscription, work out what a write invalidates, and what they promise when the network fails. Reconstructed from their public code, docs and papers, then compared with Loams Live, including where Live is behind.Dinakaranteardownreactivesyncliveconsistency https://loams.dev/blog/coding-agent-harnesseshttps://loams.dev/blog/coding-agent-harnessesSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow coding-agent harnesses actually work, read from their public code and documentation. The loop, tools and approvals, per-OS sandboxes, compaction, edit formats, checkpoints and worktrees, MCP, subagents, telemetry and failure modes, and then where Loams Studio and loams-agentd fit.Dinakaranteardownsagentssecuritysandboxing https://loams.dev/blog/object-storage-native-engines-teardownhttps://loams.dev/blog/object-storage-native-engines-teardownSun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow turbopuffer, WarpStream, S2, SlateDB, Neon, Lance, Quickwit, AutoMQ and Bufstream turn object storage into a database, a log or a search index. The architecture, the key trick and the published numbers for each, what conditional writes on S3, R2, Tigris and self-hosted stores really give you, and the ideas we are considering for Loams.Dinakaranteardownsobject-storages3streamingvector-search https://loams.dev/blog/your-bucket-is-the-databasehttps://loams.dev/blog/your-bucket-is-the-databaseSat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Loams treats object storage as the only source of truth and every server as a cache. The cost and durability arithmetic with its sources, what you give up in latency, how hot tiers and WAL classes buy it back, and where we bend the rule.Dinakaranopinionarchitectureobject-storagehot-tier https://loams.dev/blog/the-log-is-the-spinehttps://loams.dev/blog/the-log-is-the-spineFri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn Loams every write is a log entry and every collection, table and graph is a materialization of that log, maintained by links that commit their applied offset with the data. Why that beats change data capture bolted on afterwards, what a consistency token buys, and what the design costs.Dinakaranopinionarchitecturestreamsconsistency https://loams.dev/blog/oltp-olap-htap-ltaphttps://loams.dev/blog/oltp-olap-htap-ltapThu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrecise definitions of four overloaded acronyms, the four shapes HTAP takes in shipping products, what Snowflake, Databricks, TiDB, SingleStore, Neon, ClickHouse and DuckDB each get right and miss, and where Loams stands today, including what it does not have yet.Dinakaranopinionarchitecturehtapanalyticspostgres https://loams.dev/blog/five-clusters-one-buckethttps://loams.dev/blog/five-clusters-one-bucketWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA typical AI application runs Elasticsearch, Qdrant, a graph database, Kafka and a workflow engine, with the same data copied into each. Why we think hybrid retrieval belongs in one planned query over one copy, and where the specialized systems still win.Dinakaranopinionarchitectureretrievalsearch https://loams.dev/blog/drop-in-not-rip-and-replacehttps://loams.dev/blog/drop-in-not-rip-and-replaceTue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Loams speaks the Qdrant, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL and Arrow Flight SQL protocols instead of asking you to adopt a new API first, how we keep each one scoped by test suites, and what compatibility costs us.Dinakaranopinionprotocolscompatibilityarchitecture https://loams.dev/blog/forking-neon-tidb-and-grafeohttps://loams.dev/blog/forking-neon-tidb-and-grafeoMon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Loams runs PD and TiKV unmodified, carries one cherry-pick on TiDB, keeps a patch queue on Grafeo and hard-forked Neon as Loams Postgres. What each fork costs, the rules that keep them honest, and why we did not fork ClickHouse.Dinakaranopinionopen-sourcepostgrestidbgrafeo https://loams.dev/blog/what-loams-is-bad-at-todayhttps://loams.dev/blog/what-loams-is-bad-at-todaySun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA candid list for Loams 0.1.0. It is a 0.x release with one way to run it, a security model that is solid at the edge and trusting inside, a single region, half of the original pitch still planned, a Postgres WAL service that misses its targets, and unsigned desktop builds. What each one means for you, and what we are doing about it.Dinakaranopinionreleaseroadmap https://loams.dev/blog/loam-ai-native-cloud-in-your-buckethttps://loams.dev/blog/loam-ai-native-cloud-in-your-bucketTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn AI application today runs five or six stateful systems. Loams puts retrieval, application data, durable workflows and jobs on one platform, with object storage as the ground it all stands on.Dinakaranplatformarchitectureobject-storage https://loams.dev/blog/the-engine-hybrid-retrieval-on-object-storagehttps://loams.dev/blog/the-engine-hybrid-retrieval-on-object-storageTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Loams combines vector, sparse and full-text retrieval on a bucket, with native and compatibility APIs, streams and the next graph/analytics integration steps.Dinakaranplatformarchitectureengineering https://loams.dev/blog/loam-live-reactive-database-on-tikvhttps://loams.dev/blog/loam-live-reactive-database-on-tikvTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTQueries that stay live and push new results, mutations that are transactions, server functions, a protobuf sync API, and a change feed that makes application data searchable. How it works, and what is built.Dinakaranplatformtikvengineering https://loams.dev/blog/durable-execution-with-embedded-resonatehttps://loams.dev/blog/durable-execution-with-embedded-resonateTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLoams links the Resonate server into its own binary, so the official Resonate SDKs get durable promises, retries, schedules and human approvals from the system that holds the agent's memory. Here is how, and the patterns we build on it.Dinakaranplatformdurable-executionengineering https://loams.dev/blog/functions-billed-on-cpu-timehttps://loams.dev/blog/functions-billed-on-cpu-timeTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn agent that computes for 10 ms and waits 20 s on a model should pay for 10 ms. Our proposal for Loams Functions, with workerd, wasmtime and gVisor tiers and Resonate for long waits.Dinakaranplatformruntimedurable-execution https://loams.dev/blog/jobs-on-loamhttps://loams.dev/blog/jobs-on-loamTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur proposal for running the job frameworks teams already use on Loams with a configuration change, on one Rust queue core over TiKV, with durable steps from Resonate when you want them.Dinakaranplatformdurable-executionruntime https://loams.dev/blog/postgres-and-mysql-on-your-buckethttps://loams.dev/blog/postgres-and-mysql-on-your-bucketTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTRead-only SQL access, Neon-compatible WAL and the integration work behind Loams Postgres and Loams SQL.Dinakaranplatformsqlobject-storage https://loams.dev/blog/self-hosting-loam-with-gitopshttps://loams.dev/blog/self-hosting-loam-with-gitopsTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow the whole stack is meant to deploy from one Git repository, from a laptop cluster to your own data centre, on RustFS, the TiKV operator, a Loams operator and Argo CD. And how the line between open source and the managed cloud went away.Dinakaranplatformself-hostingopen-source https://loams.dev/blog/resonate-durable-promiseshttps://loams.dev/blog/resonate-durable-promisesTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Resonate is, how durable promises and replay work, why Loams chose it over Temporal and the alternatives, how we link its Rust server into our binary through a fork, and its license and limits.Dinakaranopen-sourcedurable-executionresonate https://loams.dev/blog/tikv-and-pdhttps://loams.dev/blog/tikv-and-pdTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow TiKV replicates and transacts, what PD does, why API v2 keyspaces made TiKV Loams’ transactional store, what its change feed can and cannot do for us, and why we carry a fork of the Rust client.Dinakaranopen-sourcetikvstorage https://loams.dev/blog/rustfs-s3-in-rusthttps://loams.dev/blog/rustfs-s3-in-rustTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLoams’ source of truth is a bucket, so the bucket has to keep its promises. What RustFS is, why it replaced MinIO as Loams’ default self-hosted store, what Loams needs from any S3 store, and what we still have to verify.Dinakaranopen-sourceobject-storageself-hosting https://loams.dev/blog/datafusion-and-arrowhttps://loams.dev/blog/datafusion-and-arrowTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvery Loams read, whether a Qdrant query, an Elasticsearch search or SQL, compiles to a DataFusion plan over Arrow batches. How DataFusion works, what Loams adds to it, why we embed it, and the version lockstep that comes with it.Dinakaranopen-sourceengineeringstorage https://loams.dev/blog/lance-columnar-format-for-ai-datahttps://loams.dev/blog/lance-columnar-format-for-ai-dataTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Lance lays out fragments, versions and indexes for fast random access on object storage, why Loams stores collections in it instead of Parquet, the detached versions we commit, and the churn we pin against.Dinakaranopen-sourcelancestorage https://loams.dev/blog/tantivy-and-quickwit-splitshttps://loams.dev/blog/tantivy-and-quickwit-splitsTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Tantivy indexes and scores text, how Quickwit's split format makes an index readable from a bucket with one ranged GET, why Loams vendors Quickwit's code instead of running Quickwit, and how we keep BM25 scores independent of the split layout.Dinakaranopen-sourcetantivystorage https://loams.dev/blog/iceberg-iceberg-rust-and-lakekeeperhttps://loams.dev/blog/iceberg-iceberg-rust-and-lakekeeperTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Iceberg tables commit on object storage, what iceberg-rust can and cannot write today, why Lakekeeper is Loams’ catalog, and what Loams plans to add on top for AI analytics. All of it planned.Dinakaranopen-sourcestoragesql https://loams.dev/blog/dapr-api-and-secretshttps://loams.dev/blog/dapr-api-and-secretsTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Dapr is and how its sidecar and components work, why Loams plans to serve a subset of Dapr's API from a Rust server instead of running a sidecar per function, and how tenant secrets would flow through Dapr's secrets building block.Dinakaranopen-sourceruntimeself-hosting https://loams.dev/blog/workerd-wasmtime-and-gvisorhttps://loams.dev/blog/workerd-wasmtime-and-gvisorTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe three isolation technologies behind Loams’ proposed function tiers. How V8 isolates, WebAssembly and a user-space kernel each contain code, what each costs, how each can be metered, and why workerd never runs two tenants in one process.Dinakaranopen-sourceruntime https://loams.dev/blog/openfga-authorizationhttps://loams.dev/blog/openfga-authorizationTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow OpenFGA's Zanzibar-style model answers "may this user do this to that", why Loams plans it as its fine-grained authorizer beside built-in roles, the tenant fence we add to Lakekeeper's model, and why tuple writes go through an outbox.Dinakaranopen-sourceself-hosting https://loams.dev/blog/sail-risingwave-neon-and-wesqlhttps://loams.dev/blog/sail-risingwave-neon-and-wesqlTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSail and RisingWave designs, plus the implemented WAL, routing and deployment foundations behind Loams Postgres and Loams SQL.Dinakaranopen-sourcesqlruntime https://loams.dev/blog/slatedb-foyer-openraft-and-friendshttps://loams.dev/blog/slatedb-foyer-openraft-and-friendsTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSix Rust libraries inside Loams that get less attention than DataFusion or Lance but hold up the primary-key index, the cache, the metastore, the HNSW hot tier and every protobuf API. What each does, how Loams uses it, and its limits.Dinakaranopen-sourcestorageengineering https://loams.dev/blog/crash-gateshttps://loams.dev/blog/crash-gatesSat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTNamed failpoints, a store fault matrix and a seeded linearizability simulation. This is what "no acknowledged write is ever lost" means in Loams’ test suite.Dinakarantestingreliabilityengineering https://loams.dev/blog/one-manifest-two-formatshttps://loams.dev/blog/one-manifest-two-formatsFri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Loams keeps a Lance dataset and a set of Tantivy splits mutually consistent on S3, with one compare-and-swap as the only commit point.Dinakaranstoragelancetantivyengineering https://loams.dev/blog/why-object-storagehttps://loams.dev/blog/why-object-storageTue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMost of an AI app's search data is cold most of the time. Here is why Loams keeps every byte in your bucket and treats compute as a cache.Dinakaranarchitectureobject-storagehot-tier