Incremental Updates - January 2026 edition is here! 🚀 This edition covers: - Product updates: adaptive join rebalancing, GC for ASOF joins and more - New blogs: deep dive into our profiler, constant folding in Calcite, and a look back at our progress in 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/januar...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

This is how @benpfaff.bsky.social is kicking off the New Year! 🚀

pretending I am using the force to open the automatic doors at the grocery store is the only joy I have left

Reporter: our story about the huge sewage spill in the middle of the city is ready to go Bari Weiss: no, wait. I want to interview the sewage first

2025: 📦 166 unique releases, 1,162 changes, avg. new release every 2.4 days 📊 10x cost reduction for users, hours old insights into sub-second latency ⚡ 70-node Spark clusters -> single digit Feldera instances 2026: Make incremental compute inevitable Full story: www.feldera.com/blog/feldera...

You can’t optimize what you can’t profile. Which operators are a bottleneck? Are there skewed joins? Why is storage use spiking? Our engineering team used to spend hours trying to answer these questions when performance problems would show up in the wild.

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

They’re all available today. Now go build something fast. 🏎️

Rust Compilation can be slow. Backfills can take days. And no one likes to wait. ⏳ We’ve recently shipped features that will get you deploying faster and scaling more efficiently: - Parallel Compilation - Fast Backfill - Backfill Avoidance

Has anyone managed to run perf on EKS without running the pods with full privileges? (e.g., with only CAP_PERFMON)

Introducing the iCheeseGrater (seriously why is this the first image)

My sympathies are with every South Asian child that now has to hear their parents tell them they need to be a "doctor, lawyer, or mayor of New York"

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

It's a good sign these days when 99.9% of customer support questions can be traced to Karpenter wrecking the customer's infra.

Trying to pick a game to play and this is one of claude's suggestions.

Claude, relax.

We're growing! We're working with some awesome enterprise customers with tonnes of data and are trying to scale the team. We're hiring for many high-leverage roles, including sw-eng / sre, solution engineering, and GTM roles. Fully remote team. DM me if you have any questions!

I'm going to need wrist surgery after Silksong. Worth it tho.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

We're hiring for two very high-leverage, high-learning roles at Feldera! If you're deeply technical and love seeing customers succeed using a revolutionary compute platform, we'd love to have you on the team 🚀

100%-ed Shinobi AOV over the weekend, and ended it with a hitless take down of shadow master. 😎

Accidentally pre-ordered a game 2hrs before availability, thinking it was out already. First ever, sigh.

Copilot sure likes to make stupid and useless comments.

🚀 We’re hiring an engineer to push Feldera’s automated testing platforms to the limit! If you get excited about breaking real-world data-intensive systems, chaos testing, fault injection, differential testing and obsessing over performance, this job is for you. jobs.ashbyhq.com/feldera/709c...

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Slack app to round robin pick a user from a channel? That'd be 5 USD/user/month pls 🤯

"This is the true power of incremental compute. By only needing compute resources proportional to the size of the change, instead of the size of the whole dataset, businesses can dramatically slash compute spend for their analytics." 👇 www.feldera.com/blog/how-fel...

A Sekiro anime! (how are they going to show the 10-20 attempts to fight a boss tho)

At @feldera.bsky.social I've been doing a lot of performance work. I needed an easy way to watch the Prometheus metrics for a pipeline, so I wrote a simple tool for the Feldera CLI that shows the pipeline metrics. Here's the progress of a pipeline that runs in about 30 seconds.

You are a stream integrator!

If you've written even the most basic compute program, you've likely already written programs that "integrate". Integration is central to Feldera and its underlying theory of incremental compute. It is also all around us in the real world! 👇

A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting): www.feldera.com/blog/correct...

PRO TIP: the least you can do when you apply for a job is remove the AI prompts from your cover letter copy pasta.

Sitting down to game has looked like this for the last 2 months: * Check out the PSN store * Look at endless wall of slop * Lament the lack of good games * Not game. (Excited for Shinobi AOV end of this month though)

"We chose performance over security" - a dilemma no data team should face. #DataEngineering #DataSecurity #RealTimeAnalytics

Any offerings that are Postgres compatible, HA and can survive disk/node failures without losing data? And by postgres compatible I mean wire format, SQL engine and features like LISTEN/NOTIFY. #dataBS #databases

Systems research was terrible at this. I call it "citation by induction": you saw related work citing it, so you do too. As a result, you'd see papers being cited for no reason other than some keyword in the title matched.

Does anyone have any tools for casually viewing metrics? As in, I don't have to deploy a database and another app in multiple containers to look at them? So far, I'm just using viewing metrics as text, which I'd call barely adequate.

Woke up today to something like 50 job applications, all completely irrelevant to the job profile, but submitted from a similar email domain. What even is the goal here?

How Figma Uses Rust for Instant Canvas Rendering in the Browser Native speed, memory safety, and Wasm integration. Continue reading on Medium » #rust #programming #startup #figma #golang Origin | Interest | Match

Finished the Expanse books. Now what. 🥲

This LLM hype is nothing new, Rust & Haskell developers have had compiler-induced psychosis for decades now.

My favorite procurement moment in a while: "CEO will be signing" "Sorry, CEO is on vacation, so apparently the CTO should sign" "Sorry, CTO is on vacation too, we're trying to find the first person not on holiday who can sign"

One of the little joys of onboarding customers via Slack Connect is the opportunity to copy over some new emojis.