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by debo_ 65 days ago
Michael Stonebraker used to write long, scathing critiques of modern data storage/retrieval fads, and how they were forgetting important historical lessons.

They were terrific reads; his writing on object-oriented databases was the most fun technical reading I did in grad school. And I even learned a lot!

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Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.
It has been a long time, but I think we were reading out of various editions of the Red Book

http://www.redbook.io/