Unit of work looks like a common pattern. I’ve seen it at Mural with our MongoDB data layer.

A great article (spoiler alert: did not finish it yet) about backpressure

Some visualization of data from the FED

You can't fully understand databases, NoSQL stores, key value stores, replication, paxos, hadoop, version control, or almost any software system without understanding logs

This document explores possible directions for data classes in the Java Language.