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Nice! A (really terrible) Bitcask implementation was one of the first things I ever wrote in Go (https://github.com/pandemicsyn/bitcasket). Had no clue wtf i was doing but the Riak bitcask paper was clear enough that I was able to at least make a go of it. That whole experiment sent me on a different career trajectory - and was key to me switching from Devops/SRE style career path to a dev path.

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Yes! bitcask paper is straightforward to read and understand. The idea of bitcask was suggested to Riak's devs when Eric Brewer (of CAP theorem fame) joined Riak's board:

> None of the local key/value storage systems available were ideal with regard to all of the above goals. We were discussing this issue with Eric Brewer when he had a key insight about hash table log merging: that doing so could potentially be made as fast or faster than LSM-trees.

(from the paper)

> That whole experiment sent me on a different career trajectory - and was key to me switching from Devops/SRE style career path to a dev path

How did it go? Do you have any suggestions/insights to share? I am also hoping to make a career transition from backend dev to database dev down the line.

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