My co-author Shamim just published a solid deep-dive into OceanBase internals — what actually happens when you write a SQL query in a distributed RDBMS: Paxos replication, WAL, LSM-tree storage, Log Streams.
No marketing fluff. Just how the engine works under the hood.
As someone who works on local LLM deployments, I’ll tell you — understanding distributed storage at this level is exactly what separates engineers who deploy AI in production from those who just demo it.
Good engineering doesn’t go out of style between model releases.
Here is the article:
<a href="https://medium.com/@shamim_ru/how-oceanbase-works-under-the-hood-eca28f15c354" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://medium.com/@shamim_ru/how-oceanbase-works-under-the-hood-eca28f15c354</a>

Timur Isachenko (Code it)

A pointer to a technical deep-dive into OceanBase internals, covering how SQL queries are processed in a distributed RDBMS including Paxos replication, WAL, LSM-tree storage, and Log Streams. The author frames solid distributed systems knowledge as a timeless engineering skill, contrasting it with AI hype cycles.

Not everything has to be about AI hype