Culture Shock is the growing pains of a broadening perspective. -- Rick Steves

✍️ Blogged: Interesting links - February 2025 rmoff.net/2025/02/03/i...

A bit of a grab-bag of interesting links to stuff about data that I've come across in the past few weeks

#dataBS

🇮🇳 Current 2025 🇮🇳

Bengaluru, here I come. My talk "One Client to Rule them all" was accepted. Hope to see you there.

#KafkaSummit #Current2025

SlateDB now has clones 🤯

Users can clone an existing DB's data to a new location. It's nearly instantaneous since it references the data from the old bucket rather than copying. Writes to the clone update the new location. Compaction lazily merges old data into the new directory./ht @responsive.dev

The difference between Software Verification and Software Testing

Software Verification aims to proof that all traces are within the specification

Software Testing aims to find that some traces are outside the specification

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It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17!

sessionize.com/current-lond...

HPC (High-Performance Computing) is making a comeback! 🚀 With AI-driven, compute-intensive workloads on the rise, there’s renewed focus on HPC infrastructure. During my undergrad, I built a supercomputing cluster across 3 campuses using tools like Fedora, PBS. Excited to see its evolution—thoughts?

I dig the notion that reboot & resume is an extension of the control flow graph consisting of reboot and resume nodes

An approachable and elegant mental model to reason about failure

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Has anyone went through the experience of signing a JAMS or arbitration agreement as part of offer in general? This typically requires you to waive your employee rights, including the right to a jury trial or court proceedings in case of a dispute.

object_store with S3 compare and swap support is up!

crates.io/crates/objec...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Postgres engineer: seq scan

What is serverless? My preferred mental model

Serverless is an activation an deactivation pattern

System Model

We reason about a system in terms of executions and resources: Executions are performed on resources.

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📺 I created this short demo showing how to benefit from
@decodable.co's 🔥 new #interactive #lineage #graph when working with #streaming #data #pipelines

🧭 efficiently navigate data flows
⏱️ directly see I/O metrics
⚠️ quickly spot warnings/errors
🧑‍🔧 fix problems where they occur

[Part 2 in comments]

🚀 Postgres Compatibility Index (PCI): Think your shiny new Postgres derivative is "Postgres-compatible"? Test it, score it, and know the truth. 🐘

Thanks @gunnarmorling.dev @tudor.golubenco.org @benesch.bsky.social @deverts.bsky.social for the inspiration.

Blog ==> tinyurl.com/mmfcbczz

Using AVX512 to make a meatgrinder for strings
I love reading papers from Peter Boncz, Thomas Neumann and Viktor Leis

The InfluxDB reading group I run is reading:
FSST: Fast Random Access String Compression www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/...

Going to try #AdventOfCode in Rust this year adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

S3 has finally added `put-if-match` for compare-and-swap!

Expect AWS turbopuffer regions very soon

aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Ok hello world! Checking out what’s all the hype about here!