It's out! And it's free! Database Performance at Scale, everyone: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

What's the favourite movie of the data engineer? Orchestrator 2: Judgement Day.

How did I miss this paper from VLDB 2023?: "A Deep Dive into Common Open Formats for Analytical DBMSs" (aka a compare/contrast paper on Apache Parquet, ApacheArrow, and Apache ORC ) vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3…

✅ Touched new iPhone

Я бы тоже за бомжа сошёл 🚙

Me on Business Insider: The Return-To-Office fight is getting dirty, with executives demanding workers return to the office based on nothing but vibes - and how the media is helping by championing extremely questionable anti-remote studies. businessinsider.com/return-to-offi…

New blog post detailing Druid deprecation and ClickHouse adoption at Lyft! Read more at: eng.lyft.com/druid-deprecat…

Berlin, Uzbek edition

Unfortunately I can relate to this too much. tldr: big corps want more commodity developers, fire acqui-hired (but good) devs, switch stacks, and generally take a "good thing" and make it worse. I may be jaded, but that doesn't invalidate the actions. reddit.com/r/erlang/comme…

Great post from Vimeo Engineering about migration to ClickHouse from HBase for customer-facing video analytics, used by millions of users from individual content creators to large enterprises and handling over a billion events per day. medium.com/vimeo-engineer…

It's crazy how over time I have slowly replaced all of my command line tools with Rust equivalents 🦀 - cat → bat - pip → uv - grep → ripgrep - htop → zenith - fswatch → watchexec Any other good ones?

Google lays off its entire Python team: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401711…

Civilization VII was announced today. The Civ series is sort of like Ender’s Game, but for management rather than murdering aliens. Business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers, in this small experiment.

Wow, Dutch IT-firm Afas (600+ employees) is introducing a 4-day workweek. Staff will receive the same salary, but the office will be closed every Friday starting next year.

Увидел на Reddit, как иностранцы потешаются над словами «бублик» и «компот», принёс вам 👀

This looks pretty neat - a TUI for Apache Kafka github.com/sauljabin/kask…

Wake up babe new Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) paper just dropped

Friends ask me to give a list of papers on Database I like. Here we go: github.com/auxten/go-sqld…

⚠️⚠️Read this before you start using dbt's microbatch models. There are three large gaps that could lead to serious data issues. Due to fundamental architectural design choices of dbt, the microbatch implementation is very limited. At its core, dbt is a stateless scripting tool

We just released pg_parquet! Parquet (in S3) has become a universal data storage and exchange format. We felt it was time for PostgreSQL to support Parquet. pg_parquet extends the COPY TO/FROM commands in Postgres to import/export Parquet files in S3 or local disk, with roles