oof. I wrote about some alternatives here: rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...

uForwarder: The Consumer Proxy for Kafka Async Queuing from Uber www.uber.com/blog/introdu...

maybe LLMs are the answer to Brandolini’s law

Hina Gandhi - Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark www.infoq.com/articles/age...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong rmoff.net/2025/11/20/i...

How was December 2013 both only yesterday and over twelve years ago?! Either way, some articles' core messages hold true over time—and this is one of those articles. engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-...

Rather chuffed to get featured on @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social's blog (alongside many names who I've fanboi'd for years, giving me serious imposter syndrome 🙃)

Gergely Orosz - How AWS S3 is built newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-aws-s3...

Our $200M Series C oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

I was asked to speak about parenthood in tech, and it's... very hard to do. So here's a brief attempt at some words. youtu.be/oOTuz3UUn1o

Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users openai.com/index/scalin...

I continue to be unimpressed with the open semantic interchange (OSI) so I send messages into the void. #databs

AI-powered Spark tuning at Slack aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...

Excellent stuff from Simon Späti - A Diary of a Data Engineer www.ssp.sh/blog/diary-o...

srsly folks, if you've engaged a marketing agency to do this shit for you, pack it in. they're damaging your brand, and wasting both their time and the time of the mods on the community. quit it.

Mark Rittman - Why We’ve Tried to Replace Data Analytics Developers Every Decade Since 1974 blog.rittmananalytics.com/why-weve-tri...

If you've run seaweedfs, versity, juicefs, beegfs, or rustfs—permissively-licensed s3-compatible storage systems— and are open to chatting about your experience, I'd like to chat with you for The Consensus.

Jelle De Vleminck - You Don’t Have a Data Platform Without Excel medium.com/datamindedbe...

🇺🇸 Good morning Seattle 🏃‍♂️ strava.app.link/eZsZbkW4q0b

Spring 2026 Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spr... First talk on Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST. We will alternate between a speaker from either a Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. Open to the public over Zoom. All videos available on YouTube afterwards.

Ben Lorica - Data Engineering in 2026: What Changes? gradientflow.substack.com/p/data-engin...

End-of-month recap for rmoff.net - it's been a busy month! - AI (ofc) (rmoff.net/2026/01/27/r... & rmoff.net/2026/01/27/c...) - open-source object storage (rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...) - reddit / devrel (rmoff.net/2026/01/23/i...) - interesting links in Data & AI (rmoff.net/2026/01/20/i...)

I enjoyed this Hard Fork interview; very accessible for a layperson like me :) > Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher in charge of shaping Claude’s personality, discusses the company’s newly released “Claude Constitution” youtu.be/HDfr8PvfoOw?...

Following on from my previous post, here's a more of a reflective post on if, as developers, we should be using LLMs (spoiler: almost certainly yes): rmoff.net/2026/01/27/r...

Along with half the world, I've been experimenting with what you can do with Claude Code. I've written up some notes + tips&tricks here rmoff.net/2026/01/27/c...

Scott Werner - The Only Skill That Matters Now worksonmymachine.ai/p/the-only-s...

Rands - Shields Down randsinrepose.com/archives/shi...

Some good tips in here: Claude Codes #3 thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-cod...

✍️ Finishing the week with a bit of a rant/ramble about reaching developers on Reddit: rmoff.net/2026/01/23/i...

Stefan Kecskes - Kafka Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) Triage: Debugging 25,000 Failed Messages skey.uk/post/kafka-d...

ICYMI: Interesting Links in the Data & AI World for January 2026: rmoff.net/2026/01/20/i... If you prefer Substack, or would like to get the newsletter by email, check it out here: interestinglinks.substack.com/p/2026-01

How Vinted standardizes large-scale decentralized data pipelines vinted.engineering//2025/12/29/...

How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/f...

Here's January's edition of Interesting Links: rmoff.net/2026/01/20/i... It's a bumper set of links with which to kick off 2026 including, unashamedly, plenty about AI. Had your fill of AI in your timeline? There's also lots of data engineering, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more.

nano banana one-shot. this shit is too much fun. prompt: "create meme: i iz now agentic"

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...

I put together a quick list of TUIs for #ApacheKafka. Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using? old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...

#datavis of the month

Good post from Elena Verna: Growth Is Now a Trust Problem www.elenaverna.com/p/growth-is-...

Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/a...

📝 I'm compiling my list of January's Interesting Links in the Data World. Got any articles you'd like to see on there? Drop me a line! Want to read the list when it's published? You can follow my blog RSS feed (rmoff.net/categories/i...) or subscribe to my Substack (interestinglinks.substack.com)

Cong Wang - Personal Taste Is the Moat - wangcong.org/2026-01-13-p...

InfoQ - How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines Into a Single Source of Truth www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

We all loved MinIO for building neat demos locally that need S3…and then they went and shuttered the project. I took a look at some of the alternatives, including S3Proxy, RustFS, Garage, CloudServer, and more. 👉 rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a... (💾 code repo: github.com/rmoff/minio-...)

Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn - Karthik Ramgopal & Prince Valluri www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...

How Uber Saved 13,000 Engineering Hours with a RAG‑Powered Slack Bot for On‑Call Support www.uber.com/blog/genie-u...