PMPeter McKee

Peter McKee

Peter McKee

Hands-on technical leader architecting and shipping production AI systems, with three decades of engineering experience across IC, architect, and director-level roles at Docker, JFrog, AssemblyAI, and Sonar. Currently building ShrikeDB, a Redis-compatible in-memory database in Rust.

3 articles

May 20, 2026 • 3 min read

Building ShrikeDB's Extendible Hash Table

Why ShrikeDB uses extendible hashing for its keyspace, and how it avoids the stop-the-world rehash that bites most open-addressing tables.

Rust
Databases
Systems
Diagram of an extendible hash table

May 20, 2026 • 8 min read

The Trust Threshold: Senior Engineers Are Already Crossing It

Why ShrikeDB uses extendible hashing for its keyspace, and how it avoids the stop-the-world rehash that bites most open-addressing tables.

Rust
Databases
Systems

April 8, 2026 • 2 min read

Rebuilding This Site with Next.js

I moved petermckee.dev from a hand-rolled CRA single-page app to Next.js. Here's what got simpler and what I'd do again.

Next.js
TypeScript
Web
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