Spent the last 5 weeks back "home" in Australia 🇦🇺 Time with family and old friends, bird songs, eucalypt smells, swimming at beaches - all healthy food for the soul. Driving on the other side of the road, meat pie consumption, sampling local brews probably more of a health risk - but worth it.

Happy Australia Day!!

Today is a good day to focus on remembering real American leaders and everything they stood for. I am a US citizen but these days, I'm pleased to "still call Australia home".

When my boat grows up she wants to be just like the Lindsey Foss.

One thing I see in this blog post is people running etcd on … EBS volumes, which of course introduced insane latency into fsync. zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting... Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?

Agree that Snapshot Isolation is a sweet spot for application developers. It also enables practical time travel queries and debugging, which is challenging with lower isolation levels. I covered this topic in my blog post for my VLDB'23 paper: qianli.dev/blog/timetra...

Just wow. Striped hound and me kinda wiped out by a Werner Hertzog documentary.

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PSA: beware of rabbit holes! Excited to see the eng team publishing this newsletter. 🤓 If you are interested in data, databases, Postgres, analytical queries over various open data lake formats, streaming, Kubernetes etc, this will be a terrific curated source of info that you'll enjoy.

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Are you following @eatonphil.bsky.social ? If you are interested in data, databases, distributed services, Phil will connect you with so many resources.

If you want to know more about how the Bluesky apps work and are built @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and I interviewed @pfrazee.com on our podcast before Bluesky was cool 😎 changelog.com/shipit/100

Useful insights from @justingarrison.com. The two key points that I liked were: 1/ The right orchestration pattern fits an organization's shape and culture. 2/ For platform teams, being opinionated and knowing when to say "your use case is not a good fit for this platform" is important for success.

Had the pleasure of chatting with @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and @justingarrison.com on the Ship It podcast recently. And I really mean that - it was fun! Thank you both for the invitation and for being such accommodating hosts. changelog.com/shipit/127

Just want to point out that us Aussies are doing the important work. www.bbc.com/news/article...