"The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless." - Bram Cohen

Congratulations to Admiral General, Supreme Commander, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, President, Chief Economist, Election Commissioner, Chief Chancellor, Executive Producer, Patron in Chief, National Chairman and Spiritual Guide of the Galaxy... His Excellency, Mr

Production issues in a Data Lakehouse 🧵 Choosing an open table format like Apache Hudi, Iceberg, or Delta Lake is just the beginning. Once data lands in object stores like S3/GCS, real-world problems surface. Let’s walk through some common ones (and how to handle them) 👇

"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack

Mastering Strategic Thinking:

The largest Kafka you've never heard about: Datadog 🐶 • hundreds of TRILLIONS of messages a day • terabytes a second of traffic - at least 10x more than Uber's 🔥 • >10,000 brokers in 600 Kafka clusters • >1,000,000 partitions over thousands of topics - e.g. 7000 topics

System Design Prerequisites You Should Always Consider

How Container Networking Works 🧐 Most Docker installations and Kubernetes clusters have the same bridge container network setup. The best way to understand how it works? Try reproducing one from scratch using nothing but the standard Linux commands: labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/cont…

🌾 Data everywhere? Time to build pipelines that can handle the load. In her talk, Mindy will share how her team processes complex data flows from labs, fields, and applications—using Go’s parametric polymorphism to build fast, flexible systems. You’ll walk away with insights

Fundamental Kafka Consumer concepts everybody should know because they’re unlikely to change soon (at all) 💡 Consumers are literally just libraries that read data from Kafka via the KafkaConsumer class. A microservice (for example) imports the library and hooks it up alongside

Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategies 👇 Any DR strategy starts with finalizing: 𝟭. 𝗥𝗧𝗢 (𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲): How much downtime one can accept ? 𝟮. 𝗥𝗣𝗢 (𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲): How much data loss one can accept ?

System Design Patterns - The Ultimate Cheat Sheet

Kubernetes on-prem security overview 🌟 kubesec-diagram.github.io

Container-aware GOMAXPROCS is enabled by default in Go 1.25 on Linux systems. If you don’t know what the problem with GOMAXPROCS is, read this: victoriametrics.com/blog/kubernete… Here is something you need to know about it: 1. The feature only activates when the Go program is running

Most people either don't realize this (or have forgotten): Kafka was created to solve a data integration problem. Schemas were of prime importance. 🧵

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗘𝗧𝗟? Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) is a data integration process that involves: 𝟭. 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 This step involves extracting data from various heterogeneous sources. These sources include databases, flat files, APIs, or other data storage mechanisms. 𝟮.

Israel's actions in Gaza 'meet legal definition of genocide,' scholars say time.com/7313709/israel…

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say bbc.in/42bgCdY

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