Mingding Han
mingdinghan.bsky.social
Mingding Han
@mingdinghan.bsky.social
Computer Programmer. Software Engineer.
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“KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers.”

“Even using the expensive S3 Express (which a week ago lowered its prices by more than 50%) still saves 73% compared to traditional Apache Kafka.”

/ht @ananthdurai.bsky.social
KIP-1150 in Apache Kafka is a big deal (Diskless Topics)
TL;DR KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers. It literally reduces costs by 97% (from $1.8M to $20K annually for a 1GiB/s cluster) a...
topicpartition.io
April 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Mingding Han
Must reads for web developers - how modern browsers work:

1️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt1
2️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt2
3️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt3
4️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt4

and browser.engineering a free to read book on the topic
January 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Mingding Han
Some learnings after helping +50 companies in high performance data engineering projects

javisantana.com/2024/11/30/l...
javisantana.com
javisantana.com
November 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Enjoyed Prof Andy Pavlov’s review of the database world in 2024. It’s very informative, fun and entertaining :)
Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM