And then he said: « Bring me to your leader! »

Felt it

"It is not 100% clear to me how a new file format (or three) will drive additional ecosystem adoption :thinking:" However, I absolutely think this adds to the pressure for Parquet to evolve. Speaking of, anyone interested in helping add new encodings to parquet? lists.apache.org/thread/djnbb...

"Why Datadog Chose Airflow 3: Multi-Tenancy, Observability, and the Future of Event-Driven Workflows" Zach and I will be talking about how Datadog adopted Airflow 3 at the Airflow summit next week. Come say hi! airflowsummit.org/sessions/202...

Columnar file formats are hot!

I'm trying to understand a bit better real life deployments of open source Clickhouse. If you're using it, what does your deployment look like?

Berkeley just experienced a small earthquake. Check USGS for the official earthquake magnitude: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... Remember to drop, cover, and hold on during earthquake shaking.

Woken up by the earth quake!

Catching up in person at the Community over Code conference. Nice to see you all!

I’ll be at the Community over Code Conference in Minneapolis on Thursday and Friday. Come say hi if you’re around. I’m speaking about the deconstructed database Thursday at noon. communityovercode.org/schedule/

A cool blog post by Qi Zhu, Jigao Luo and @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social on embedding custom indices in Parquet files while staying compatible with the standard. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/07...

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New profile pic?

Just strolling in Paris on a summer night. What prevents you from looking like this?

Silver linings…

À jeudi au meetup Iceberg à Paris. Je vais tenter de faire ma présentation en Français. S’il vous plait, on ne se moque pas du franglish! www.meetup.com/iceberg-fr-m...

@andrewlamb1111.bsky.social : "New file formats are not needed: Parquet is enough" I don't disagree 😇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Ys...

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Nice to see you all outside today and thank you for sharing pictures!

My wife went grocery shopping with our six year old this afternoon. When they came back he proudly announced that they didn’t buy anything for me. :)

On brand

The recording of my keynote at Data Council 2025 is now available. If you missed my best talk so far, you can now catch up. The Deconstructed Database and the Advent of the Open Data Lake www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqhk...

The recording of my keynote at Data Council 2025 is now available. If you missed my best talk so far, you can now catch up. The Deconstructed Database and the Advent of the Open Data Lake www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqhk...

It was long overdue.

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If you missed it, the recording of my talk on The Advent Of The Open Data Lake at the Iceberg Summit is up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFos...

The average American has three friends.

This query is supposed to find all employees in dept 10 who earn more than all programmers in dept 20, but it has a bug. The bug is caused by a fatal flaw in SQL. What is that flaw, and how does Morel fix it? (The answer is in my talk with @julien.ledem.net, youtu.be/zpdbEvhhne8#...)

I guess I’m officially middle aged.

If you get confused on which Juli[ae]n is which, you can easily tell them appart, one has a British accent and the other does not!

"More than Query - Future Directions of Query Languages, from SQL to Morel", a conversation with @julien.ledem.net about Morel, based on the talk I gave at Data Council 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdb...

I’m looking forward to see you all at Datacouncil tomorrow morning. It’s going to be my best keynote yet. www.datacouncil.ai/talks25/keyn...

I took a picture of the main amphitheater during the break. It’s not going to be intimidating at all to give the keynote from there tomorrow Morning.

I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote at DataCouncil on Thursday. I hope you’ll enjoy my talk as much as I had fun iterating on the slides and on how to tell a good story. See you there. It’s an amazing venue!

I asked ChatGPT to describe me and it replied: New phone, who dis?

I asked ChatGPT to describe me and it replied: New phone, who dis?

Variant is coming soon to @ApacheParquet in Rust . Huge thanks to @db.cs.cmu.edu for getting the process started in @ApacheArrow with a great draft PR to kick off Variant support: github.com/apache/arrow... 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you

😱 Uh Oh, I can't believe Data Council is next week already! I am totally ready to deliver a keynote. I have not been obsessing over the slides. I swear. See you there!

I’m trying this uber competitor in SF. Smooth driving but I’m not impressed by the driver’s conversation skills.

It was nice to visit the new sunset dunes park for its opening.

The Datadog delegation at the Iceberg Summit.

📣Introducing the new name for San Francisco’s newest park: Sunset Dunes Today, following over 4,200 community submissions, multiple survey rounds and public meetings, the @sfrecpark.bsky.social Commission voted to name our favorite 50-acre oceanfront park Sunset Dunes!

We got the band back together for one night.

Hanging out with the local celebrity at the Iceberg summit.

I'm looking forward to see you in person at the Iceberg summit in SF tomorrow. I'll be speaking about the evolution of data storage from Hadoop to Iceberg and how we're witnessing the Advent of The Open Data Lake. www.icebergsummit2025.com

I’m looking forward to presenting a keynote at data council this year. I’ve been sharpening my slides and thinking of witty things to say. It should be fun! Thank you to the organizers for giving me this opportunity! It’s been great participating to this conference in various roles over the years.

Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent. nyti.ms/4jbwPWD

The freezer god made an appearance this morning. Let’s praise them as they blessed us with powder. ⛷️

Last year in America you make jokes on April fool’s day. This year in America, the joke’s on you.