John Kutay
@jkxosound.com
Product & Engineering @ Striim (streaming sql, change data capture), creator/host @ What's New in Data pod, music @ jkxo
@clare.dev is one of the leaders making AI engineering simple and scalable at AWS. Had a great time chatting with her as we discussed Strands Agents and patterns like “Retrieval as a Tool”.
July 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@clare.dev is one of the leaders making AI engineering simple and scalable at AWS. Had a great time chatting with her as we discussed Strands Agents and patterns like “Retrieval as a Tool”.
Really appreciate the depth at which the Hex team broke down their Text-to-SQL implementation. Everyone's trying to teach LLMs SQL like it's a training problem but it's really a graph traversal problem.
July 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Really appreciate the depth at which the Hex team broke down their Text-to-SQL implementation. Everyone's trying to teach LLMs SQL like it's a training problem but it's really a graph traversal problem.
In my post about #DuckDB I digress into the role of the database buffer cache to discuss how we segregate transactional workloads from analytical. DuckDB turned out to be a natural, lightweight approach to offloading analytical queries ensuring our application upheld performance requirements.
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In my post about #DuckDB I digress into the role of the database buffer cache to discuss how we segregate transactional workloads from analytical. DuckDB turned out to be a natural, lightweight approach to offloading analytical queries ensuring our application upheld performance requirements.
and that’s why I’m working on a Saturday morning 🫠
February 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
and that’s why I’m working on a Saturday morning 🫠
A single Striim cluster (multi-node for scalability and fault tolernace) can handle 35k, very wide, very active databases that produce millions of DML per hour hour and dozens of DDL per day. The 'intelligence' layer or Striim was able to apply rule based logic on how to handle complex DDL.
February 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A single Striim cluster (multi-node for scalability and fault tolernace) can handle 35k, very wide, very active databases that produce millions of DML per hour hour and dozens of DDL per day. The 'intelligence' layer or Striim was able to apply rule based logic on how to handle complex DDL.
Remind me: 1,000 days.
February 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Remind me: 1,000 days.
I always love seeing clovers in the wild! Knowing every transaction is streamed to Snowflake in real time with Striim’s streaming CDC service. We do a lot of work to ensure transactions are bound reliably and replicated with no duplicates while maintaining low latency.
February 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I always love seeing clovers in the wild! Knowing every transaction is streamed to Snowflake in real time with Striim’s streaming CDC service. We do a lot of work to ensure transactions are bound reliably and replicated with no duplicates while maintaining low latency.
I should be charging for this type of life coaching on LinkedIn.
February 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I should be charging for this type of life coaching on LinkedIn.
MAGA narrative has infiltrated the Palisades fire. The truth is there was lots of low and mixed income apartments along Sunset in my area (Marquez) and near the high school. Those residents deserve to come back home too. Some had been there for decades.
January 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
MAGA narrative has infiltrated the Palisades fire. The truth is there was lots of low and mixed income apartments along Sunset in my area (Marquez) and near the high school. Those residents deserve to come back home too. Some had been there for decades.
This gives me hope I’ll find all that data conference swag I never wore 🤞🏼
January 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This gives me hope I’ll find all that data conference swag I never wore 🤞🏼
Transaction logs and their respective interfaces are a bit of a complicated topic and SQLServer has some unique challenges. I'd say its quite different from Oracle's redo log and how OSS databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL approach logical replication. We worked on making the first in-memory log...
January 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Transaction logs and their respective interfaces are a bit of a complicated topic and SQLServer has some unique challenges. I'd say its quite different from Oracle's redo log and how OSS databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL approach logical replication. We worked on making the first in-memory log...
Whoever leaked this story definitely wants Databricks to bid 2x on Redpanda 😂
January 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Whoever leaked this story definitely wants Databricks to bid 2x on Redpanda 😂
After a year of record breaking growth for Striim, it was great to celebrate our wins and plan for the future. We defied gravity, solved problems that companies 1000x our size couldn't solve, won 20% of the Fortune 100 and 4 of the Fortune 10. Here's to a great 2025. Data Streaming 🚀
January 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
After a year of record breaking growth for Striim, it was great to celebrate our wins and plan for the future. We defied gravity, solved problems that companies 1000x our size couldn't solve, won 20% of the Fortune 100 and 4 of the Fortune 10. Here's to a great 2025. Data Streaming 🚀
My neighbor Chuck always went all out making Halloween a spectacle on our block. Seeing him on the news was heartbreaking but equally inspiring. If he’s rebuilding, we know the neighborhood is coming back better than ever.
January 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My neighbor Chuck always went all out making Halloween a spectacle on our block. Seeing him on the news was heartbreaking but equally inspiring. If he’s rebuilding, we know the neighborhood is coming back better than ever.
Our local K-5 Marquez School was partially destroyed by the palisades fire. Hope to see it back better than ever one day!
January 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Our local K-5 Marquez School was partially destroyed by the palisades fire. Hope to see it back better than ever one day!
Resiliency and data correctness relies on granular checkpointing. In Striim, we handle this for you automatically and make it easily observable in the console.
January 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Resiliency and data correctness relies on granular checkpointing. In Striim, we handle this for you automatically and make it easily observable in the console.
In Striim Developer, you can set up fully automated, real-time streaming replication pipelines from your database to your other databases with transactional consistency, or your favorite data warehouse with streaming, near real time ingest.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In Striim Developer, you can set up fully automated, real-time streaming replication pipelines from your database to your other databases with transactional consistency, or your favorite data warehouse with streaming, near real time ingest.
signup-developer.striim.com
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Cutting 3.5% of your workforce while simultaneously 'not slowing down hiring' is a helluva drug. Heart goes out to any of you impacted by this.
January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Cutting 3.5% of your workforce while simultaneously 'not slowing down hiring' is a helluva drug. Heart goes out to any of you impacted by this.
Shortly after evacuating, I caught a video of the turmoil hoping to see the firefighting planes rescue the neighborhood. They worked hard but sadly the elements were too strong.
January 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Shortly after evacuating, I caught a video of the turmoil hoping to see the firefighting planes rescue the neighborhood. They worked hard but sadly the elements were too strong.
It's high praise when a CDO says your product is 'the only tool' that could solve both their technical and business problems. Striim's clustered, fully managed CDC + streaming service gave data teams the real-time data they needed to ensure better shelf inventory for shoppers in stores.
January 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's high praise when a CDO says your product is 'the only tool' that could solve both their technical and business problems. Striim's clustered, fully managed CDC + streaming service gave data teams the real-time data they needed to ensure better shelf inventory for shoppers in stores.
One of the thornier problems we’ve solved in Striim CDC is implementing off-heap buffering to optimize performance while ensuring transaction consistency during replication. This approach avoids GC overhead, maintains isolation, and interleaves commits smoothly for accurate replication.
January 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
One of the thornier problems we’ve solved in Striim CDC is implementing off-heap buffering to optimize performance while ensuring transaction consistency during replication. This approach avoids GC overhead, maintains isolation, and interleaves commits smoothly for accurate replication.
New year, new office. We're excited to move into Facebook's OG HQ in Downtown Palo Alto for a fun year of Change Data Capture, Data Streaming and continuing to partner with the enterprise operators modernizing their critical infrastructure.
January 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
New year, new office. We're excited to move into Facebook's OG HQ in Downtown Palo Alto for a fun year of Change Data Capture, Data Streaming and continuing to partner with the enterprise operators modernizing their critical infrastructure.
