4-year old son: “do I have school tomorrow? Me: “yes, why? “I don’t like school” Me: “why?” “they kill my ideas and force me to do theirs”

One of the NYSE products is now powered by Redpanda! nyse.com/data-products

The Amazon rainforest doesn't just remove ~2 billions tons of CO2 every year. It also moves ~20 billions tons of water through evotranspiration, the so-called "flying rivers", critical for planetary balance. I wish more people knew this.

Applies to companies and people, you are what you do, not what you say you do.

“It’s the only product at a technical level that can be deployed from edge devices, all the way to the largest cloud workloads.” 🕺💃🤟 Alexander Gallego shares details on @RedpandaData's acquisition of Benthos and delivering an end-to-end streaming data platform — tcrn.ch/4bEpL1z

I’ve been deeply into Azure the last 4 months. It feels much better than GCP but still below AWS. The only complain is the single Entra ID per tenant, shared across all subscriptions. A single point of failure. In this regard, I prefer the decentralized approach AWS took.

I’m not sure you can compare what TCP/IP is to Linux with what k8s is to datacenters. K8s isn’t general purpose. Its design is heavily biased towards running stateless services. Statefulsets are not even close to being useful at running stateful workloads reliably at scale.

Worst mistake a startup can make is to focus on trends or pleasing VCs instead of adding true value to its customers. Usually, what adds true value is not what’s trendy.

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✨ With great power comes great simplicity ✨ If there's one thing that distinguishes Redpanda's #BYOC offering from the rest, it's "data plane atomicity." Simply put, it means that even if your data plane goes down, your application stays up 🤘 That's what true BYOC is all

AI models are not going to replace people, they are going to enhance them. Execs without full understanding of true model capabilities should stop spreading FUD.

There is probably a very healthy business in helping Azure customers migrate to AWS or GCP because they can’t really grow their business with Microsoft Azure’s crappy capacity planning .

I heard someone call “Merchants of complexity” to some folks who love to add complexity to solve simple problems, instead of solving from first principles. I couldn’t have thought of a better title.

Simple != Easy

3 types of child-locks for sliding deck doors, and they all assume the child can’t reach the lock 🤦🏻‍♂️ #greatdesigns

Preparing my exit from X and into Bluesky. I can’t take the spam anymore, and of course, the new owner.