a moderately technical blog
My current work project is one of the first Aurora/PostgreSQL deployments and already the largest. Success brings scaling challenges and the types of things seasoned operators classify as “good problems to have.” Compared to previous scaling work around Delta Lake the knobs and ways in which online relational databases scale is a muscle that has atrophied in the past decade. The relational…
I am loving the proliferation of async/await-style cooperative multitasking across different language ecosystems. My first job in San Francisco was building with greenthreads in Python (2.4!) in an era where Stackless, Greenlets, and Twisted were all fringe communities inhabited by oddballs like myself. Nowadays it’s a little embarrassing to adopt a toolchain that doesn’t support some form of…
Databricks announced a new low-latency product powered by a super fast engine they’re calling “Reyden.” The product itself is called Lakehouse//RT and I am both supremely excited to see this in the wild and academically really interested in their approach(es) for implementing Reyden.
There’s a dead deer in the bin. The burial while unceremonious was not without a deep sadness for an animal that didn’t know I exist.
Similar to last month I have given more intention to some of the interesting things that I have stumbled across in my feed reader or the fediverse. Rather than just a quip, boost, or reply, I have wanted to consolidate these thoughts with more permanance here to my blog.
Governance is the synergy of our era. If I could go one week without a discussion around governance that really just boils down to classic role-based access control practices..
Open source communities depend on a fundamental assumption that is no longer true: the presumption of good faith actors. The hosts serving free and open source code are scraped relentlessly, denying service to developers. Once that code has been assimilated into various models it is washed of all attribution and license information, denying rights of the developers. Some subset of users then feel…
Linux power-users tend to have strong opinions about two things: distribution and systemd. The bazaar of distributions means competing implementations or different perspectives end up expressed through the curation of the packaged software. systemd ended up so contentious because it’s a decent piece of technology which suffers from persistent scope creep that became a foundational component in a…
35E, 35E. Stuck here in the middle of the middle, 35E.
Over the past week I have made a more conscious effort to keep track of some really interesting articles that came through my feed reader. I am a big fan of the open web and the power of RSS for disseminating interesting information from actual people. Below are some really interesting posts I have read recently!