things are going to get really weird

"Over the next few days, you will receive a follow-up email with instructions on how to redeem your $20 credit for YouTube TV." Google's market cap is 17x Disney's. I don't think Disney is winning this one.

"being limited by memory sucks" especially right now as dram prices shoot to 2x+! So happy for ya'll. Very very very excited you're putting some stakes down in open source too! Hugely expands interest imho. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Been all-in on Codex CLI with GPT 5 high for the past few days. It's really surprising to me how much better the same model is in CLI (vs. IDE/web UI).

the data bible dropping soon

The problem with building that is that... it exists! github.com/tansu-io/tansu

Excited to be diving into this! Open source, self-hosting, and an emulator have been big asks - and "s2-lite" will solve for all of those.

👀 "This is the home of s2-lite — an open source, self-hostable implementation of the S2 API for durable streams. It will be backed by SlateDB, and it is currently in development."

Burned through half the second edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications in one day It is that good.

Sneak preview of @tensorlake.ai's agents runtime. A new durable, parallel and isolated execution model for deep research agents. Text this number with a financial research question to see it in action - +1-217-601-5252! We're currently in private beta. I can't wait to make it GA!

1/ SlateDB v0.9.0 is live! Highlights: Windows support, Merge Operator, new Transactions API (SI/SSI), a much‑improved Python API (snapshots, transactions, scans, metrics), and lots of perf + stability work. Notes below 👇

Wait dagster launched an AI CRM thingy? 🤔 compass.dagster.io

Bringing the SlateDB Python API up to near-parity with Rust. - snapshots - transactions (SI/SSI) - iterator-based scans with seek - merge operator - metrics - TTL - admin ops - reader APIs

This is what I was asking for a while back… rust cdc

🚀 Launching Supermetal — data replication that just works. Sync databases to warehouses in real-time or batch — no Kafka, no JVM, no Debezium. Built in Rust & Apache Arrow. Try it → trial.supermetal.io Launch post → supermetal.io/blog/launch

Document parsing benchmarks have been measuring the wrong thing. We tested every major parser on real enterprise documents. The results will change how you think about OCR accuracy 🧵

Protobuf is moving from `syntax = ..` to `edition = 2024` style syntax. Interesting.

i think it's time..

We finally decided to write out how we use XDP in our network plane for live network migrations and more specifically to process outgoing packets! This is the first in a series of promised deep dives into how Loophole's live migration tech works!

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'nother PG+data lake thingy..

I think the blog makes a lot of straw mans and misses the point. I definitely agree with some points made there and remain reasonable - but I think that under my mentioned constraints, PG is likely the right choice I posted a rebuttal here if you care enough to read github.com/gunnarmorlin...

If you’re into CUE, kson.org is worth a look. It’s kinda like CUE, but built for mortals to get things done.

Bucket forking allows you to fork data as easily as code in S3-compatible object storage, without copies, delays or extra costs. Thanks to @tigrisdata.com

This is pretty neat labeler for quieting the noisiest parts of ”extremely online” discussions without having to block people. bsky.app/profile/stec...

The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇

Hey, neat. MetricFlow is open source

ai.. automated intern

💯 we had an entire "logs" database at WePay and it was a nightmare. It's convenient until it isn't. And backing out is brutal.

📝 Blogged: "'You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres' Considered Harmful" In which I'm arguing that both Postgres and Kafka are great tools for their respective purposes. But don't create your custom implementation of one on top of the other. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/you-don...

Forever mad about GB vs GiB and the fact that I'm supposed to occasionally say gibibyte with a straight face and expect the audience not to think I'm stuttering

Great blog. I've never seen a "protocol" as walled garden as MCP.

Very cool. And lots of new things to read up more about…

The recording from our last South Bay Systems meetup is now available! youtu.be/f1bz3efUJpM

TIL www.theapplegeek.co.uk/blog/caffein... .. was getting annoyed with my laptop going to sleep while LLMs run

It feels to me like foundational models are progressing faster than the tools/techniques meant to help them. Makes me think many such tools and techniques will be subsumed by the FMs, themselves.

Reading about Corrosion: a Rust project that replicates a SQLite database using a gossip protocol. Really cool intersection of SQLite, CRDTs and SWIM. I also appreciate how openly they document their gnarlier failure modes and war stories so far fly.io/blog/corrosi...

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sugar intensifies

Skills feels like what I wanted MCP to be in the first place

I saw this on LinkedIn and it was just too accurate to not share here. Postgres powers so much of the world's software yet the core team is a couple dozen people. The ecosystem around it is also surprisingly small for how far reaching it is.

Wait.. this seems like it overlaps _a lot_ with MCP? "Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed."

Really having a rough go of it with Rust today. Everything I try is like, "nope, you gotta do this really ugly thing because the compiler..."

Used a leg extension machine for first time in 8 years.

Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB

Really great opportunity for those who want to learn more about sync engines / building real time applications.

The conclusions aren't all 100% right here, but I was quite surprised to see us picked up by Tinybird. Must be doing something right www.tinybird.co/blog/clickho...

I only had a brief look but I quite like the look of this: github.com/johannschopp...