Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.

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Working on a series of explainer videos, these are reasons why I believe Redpanda Data has a competitive edge! And hope these videos speak to you too! First, why C++? Why Thread per core? That's bcoz context switching is expensive!! #streaming #Kafka youtube.com/watch?v=fluRjL…

To put my money where my mouth is: I am confident of the system we've built. I will cut any Confluent bill by 50% or give you money. go.redpanda.com/half-kafka-bil… the rest of this thread will stay technical.

After announcing a $50 million Series B just 16 months ago, Ron Miller notes, "This kind of trajectory was common a couple of years ago, but seeing a company raise $150 million in such a quick succession these days has become far more rare." @techcrunch hubs.la/Q01VX72F0

"Redpanda helps companies extract value out of every single item going through their network." CEO Alex Gallego and NYSE's Anand Pradhan speak to Trinity Chavez about how Redpanda Data is a streaming platform that implements Kafka® APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.

Hey 👋 friends - we’re looking for a senior Eng to join our storage team and hack on the core of #redpanda. If you enjoy working on low latency systems, this is your open invite! DMs open 🚀🙌

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pretty cool to see aws adopt redpanda for their ci here: github.com/awslabs/eventb…

A huge obstacle to success is a fear of appearing foolish. When we learn to walk, we fall repeatedly until we can do it. We look foolish until the minute we don’t. That is how we learn. So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look foolish in the short term.

Distance yourself from the people you don’t want to become. Cultivate people in your life that make you better. People whose default behavior is your desired behavior. If circumstances make this difficult, choose among the eminent dead.

The idea of First-Principles Thinking is common, yet it remains a competitive advantage because it's rare to actually see it. Your thinking improves when you stop making assumptions and letting others frame the problem for you. Analogies can’t replace understanding.

The 🐈 is out of the bag!!!! SERVERLESS Launch 🚀 stream happening on March 26. Scale to zero. The best way to get started for devs. This should be 🤩 Always be launching!!! Psyched on this one.

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes.” — Vincent Van Gogh