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Chris

@criccomini

Writer of books (themissingreadme.com), code (slatedb.io), checks (materializedview.capital), and newsletters (materializedview.io)

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calendar_today18-04-2009 00:51:08

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Ok, y'all. This took me several weeks and a ton of help from Frank McSherry (@frankmcsherry.bsky.social) and Lalith Suresh. I dug into timely dataflow, differential dataflow, and DBSP to get you up to speed on IVM engines and materialized views. Enjoy! materializedview.io/p/everything-t…

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Really awesome post by Chris on incremental view maintenance. It's traditionally been thought of as something for analytics workflows, but combined with a sync engine it can bring efficient updates to your UI where standard queries were the norm!

» teej (@teej_m) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Since January I've been working on Downlink, a platform that makes AI 3x faster. Downlink is built for engineers using LLMs in their product. It cuts a 1-second API call to 300ms or less. I can't wait to share more. Benchmarks coming next week, what evals should I run?

Camuel Gilyadov (@camuelg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Embucket is on a mission to bring a BYOC option for your Snowflake workloads with a new open source project. Iceberg has commoditized the storage layer, Apache DataFusion and SlateDB made it possible to rapidly develop the stateless query-processing in rust and AI is helping with

Gwen (Chen) Shapira (@gwenshap) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday, I posted a riddle: What happens when you add and remove a column from a table in Postgres 2000 times? Answer: After 1598 times, you get "ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns" But... the table only has 2 columns when I get the error! So... why? Because

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Today marks SlateDB’s one year anniversary! It’s been a lot of fun. Thanks to Rohan Desai f Almog Gavra vigneshc Paul Butler Jason Gustafson David Moravek and many others for joining the project. 😀 slatedb.io

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SlateDB 0.6.0 is out! github.com/slatedb/slated… Highlights include a hybrid cache (using Foyer), a lot of internal cleanup, and more groundwork for transactions. Oh, and put performance jumped ~80% for write-heavy workloads :) slatedb.io/performance/be…

SlateDB 0.6.0 is out!

github.com/slatedb/slated…

Highlights include a hybrid cache (using Foyer), a lot of internal cleanup, and more groundwork for transactions.

Oh, and put performance jumped ~80% for write-heavy workloads :)

slatedb.io/performance/be…
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I'm very pleased to see Liu Jiang launch her Sunflower Capital fund today. Liu and I have co-invested on a few companies in the past, and founders have extremely good things to say about her. :) Congrats! And more info here: wsj.com/articles/sunfl…

Sunflower Capital (@seedtosunflower) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.

We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.
Apurva Mehta (@apurva1618) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The most surprising thing I’ve learned in the past couple of years spent talking to several dozens of companies building apps on Kafka is this: the plain old producer and consumer remains the most popular interface for building apps on Kafka. Many companies I spoke to have even

The most surprising thing I’ve learned in the past couple of years spent talking to several dozens of companies building apps on Kafka is this: the plain old producer and consumer remains the most popular interface for building apps on Kafka.

Many companies I spoke to have even
Stephan Ewen (@stephanewen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are looking for a someone to join our restate cloud team. If you like to work on state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure to power a new way to build resilient applications, workflows, agents, event-driven apps, this could be for you! We are looking for strong SRE skills,

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Announcing TanStack/DB 🎉🥳 A lightweight, reactive, mini-database with IVM that is perfect for both Sync and Fetch. It’s been a lot of fun to build this with Kyle Mathews, and collaborate with Tanner Linsley. We are incredibly excited for where this can go!

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“There isn't an official Go SDK, and I wanted to understand the protocol. This turned out to be a mistake for mental health...” OMG, this post is _exactly_ how I reacted to MCP. JSON-RPC and HTTP+SSE? What are we even doing here. raz.sh/blog/2025-05-0…

Diptanu Choudhury (@diptanu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to announce Tensorlake Cloud! 🧵 Tensorlake converts real-world documents into clean, structured data for business workflow automation and for building Agents in mission-critical documents. It's powered by a state-of-the-art document layout understanding model trained