The only feat harder than finding an available domain name is finding an available GitHub name.

@felixgv.ninja (ex-LinkedIn) and @olimpiupop.bsky.social explore Venice DB, planetary-scale data systems, CAP trade-offs, and chaos testing at peak load - revealing how distributed architectures remain resilient today!

Tune in and listen to former #VeniceDB tech lead and all around swell guy Félix GV as he talks with Olimpiu P. on building #VeniceDB for planet scale workloads!! youtu.be/eg6EFeGSx6M?...

Don’t Sell Yourself Short With New Year Resolutions Last night, I was thinking of a new year’s resolution where I would do one more push up each day, until I reached 365 in a day at the end of the year. Then I thought: why wait? I can already do 365 push ups in a day.

OMFG Christmas came early this year 🤩 Thank you @dancarlin.bsky.social 🎅🏻 !! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Interesting post, though I’m slightly disappointed in this paragraph which (to me at least) is the crux of the issue. On one hand, the approach of the "linear feed" in which a central authority decides the order and imposes it on all participants is the classical one, so it makes sense to copy it.

Which Slop is Right? I asked two AIs exactly the same prompt: Does postgres guarantee atomicity of a transaction at all isolation levels? 🤔

I think we may be at a fork in the road… If we keep going down the path of hyperscalers, fundamentally, AI will lead to more inequalities. If we are smart/lucky enough to compound several more Deepseek-style leaps forward, we may get AIs efficient enough for on-device and democratization.

Concerning.

I’ve been thinking about how GenAI is transforming the software industry. As someone who genuinely enjoys (or at least enjoyed…) coding, I’m apalled to see the focus shifting from honing the craft of writing great code, towards babysitting a mediocre intern-level AI needing lots of review bandwidth.

My view of tech debt is that there are many flavors of it. The first flavor is probably the one most people think of: tech debt is software conceived from a shortcut. It is a tradeoff where implementation details are chosen for the sake of expediency, and at the detriment of quality.

Latest blogpost on hashtag#VeniceDB and our journey for providing performance SLA's on data ingestion! Congrats to Gaojie Liu and the rest of the team! lnkd.in/dXn2MPUK

Duolingo Cluster Set: life hack where the micropause between each rep is used to do one exercise of a Duolingo module. 🦉 💪 🦉 💪 🦉 💪 🦉 💪 🦉 💪 …

Burry’s been wrong a few times since 2008… but is he really just a one hit wonder? Maybe this move is his big come back? www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/b...

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

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I often tell people about the differences of operating at various levels of the stack. Typically, the lower you go down the stack, the slower everything goes. Development is slower, ramping to production is slower, stabilization is slower, but also decommissioning things is slower.

How not to roll out AI: a YouTube case study Recently (hard to say when, it was probably a gradual roll out anyway), YouTube began dubbing certain videos with a voiceover in the viewer’s language (presumably based on OS settings). So what’s wrong? 🧵

Pro tip: to get your PRs shipped faster, and save your teammates’ time, re-read your code, and only submit PRs in a state you wish they were in when you review them yourself 🤝

#VeniceDB now supports blob transfer for fast bootstrapping of instances! VeniceDB contributor Jingyan Li does a deep dive of this feature! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rosg...

Why is it that every time I want to do something simple, I end up needing to fix some Javascript and then it’s no longer simple 🥲 ?

💯 This is exactly the reason we should have all the engineers on the pager. It doesn't matter if you are staff/principal. Need to be on-call.

Trust those who carry the pager. That’s how I summed up the work of improving reliability in a discussion today. Conducting postmortems after incidents is a great ritual but, like any other process, it can be used either effectively or not.

Good discussion on ParadeDB use cases, search patterns, and reranking.

This is a great in-depth discussion on CDC from two actual practitioners.

This looks interesting. I know the intent is to attach it to production servers, but how about also attaching it to CI? Given a sufficiently comprehensive integration test suite, it could potentially yield much of the same benefits even pre-prod.

More blogging! I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop. Not because that's not useful, but because it's incredibly hard (impossible?) to do securely: sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/a...

If you want to get started reading academic papers, but can’t ever seem to get through one, then let me throw you this underhand toss! I’m sure you can finish reading this one, and then you’ll be well on your way to read more!

Most software is like a banana. Postgres is pretty singular.

Interesting article. A bit slow-going at first, though it is a useful intro or recap for folks unfamiliar with relational data, normal form, etc. The 3rd section is fine though somewhat obvious. The 4th section is really where it shines. I wish more document DB users read it.

Been thinking about GenAI and its use cases… IMHO, It’s appropriate for: - Taking any skill from incompetent to mediocre. - Getting some result without learning how to get it done. And vice versa for what it’s not good for.

Learn about Hybrid Stores, WAL, Multi-WAL, Replication and CRDTs in Venice! youtu.be/mM-6GysXii4

New functionality, new video! Watch it to learn about: Facet Counting in Venice youtu.be/gDBFBgxRqSk

I'm preparing some documentation on techniques for merging batch and real-time data, where I'll explore various concepts that have emerged over the past 15 years.

And I’m sure there are more instances out there… no way that we built this three times at LinkedIn (and without really consulting each other much, BTW) and (at least) once at Pinterest, but nowhere else. My goal in naming it the "Hybrid Store Design Pattern" is so that we can finally talk about it.

Yes… it popped up in several systems over the last decade… @venicedb.org implemented it around 2017 (some ~5 years before getting open sourced). Other @linkedin.com proprietary systems (Search, Graph) also implemented it. And Pinterest’s proprietary KV Store system as well. Any others?

What is HyBRID? HyBRID is a recursive backronym used as a mnemonic device to remember the purpose of the Hybrid Store Design Pattern. It means: Hybrid Batch/Real-time Ingested Data.

If you’d like to learn more, this talk provides an in-depth explanation of the Hybrid Store Design Pattern: youtu.be/hc0pgvnr3fQ

Catch the replay for the latest #VeniceDB talk! In it, you will learn more about derived data, the related design patterns coming from the industry over the past 15 years, and how Venice's architecture keeps pushing the boundaries in that space! youtu.be/hc0pgvnr3fQ

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

I posted about the Hybrid Store design pattern last week and mentioned that @venicedb.org is an open source system that implements it, but that's not the only one!

Have you come across the Hybrid Store design pattern in your work? Please let me know if you did, and point me to any existing systems you know of which do this. I would be curious to compare and contrast.

How do you create & operate planet-scale data storage solutions for derived data? How do you decide on the pieces that must be fitted to ensure a resilient operating system? 🎧 Listen to the #InfoQ podcast with @felixgv.bsky.social : bit.ly/41Gfmi3 #database #DataStorage #DistributedData

Check out the latest @infoq.com podcast, featuring a wide-ranging conversation between @olimpiupop.bsky.social and @felixgv.bsky.social about databases, derived data, technical migrations, performance, Venice, Java, RocksDB, @duckdb.org and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Pumping #Kafka streams into @duckdb.org is a powerful concept! *Duck Vinci* is a #DuckDB integration plugin for the Da Vinci Client library 🧵

Interesting… WDYT? www.shadaj.me/writing/dist...

I think it was a not very well guarded secret… but LinkedIn’s stream team will finally talk publicly about their Kafka rewrite, many years in the making, called North Guard, as well as their abstraction on top of Kafka + NG, called Xinfra. Sign up here to hear about it: meetu.ps/e/NWkXx/466N...

A LEGO character is simply someone with super tight rotator cuffs.

@notion.com, the new translation banner popping up at the top of pages is a huge bother. I don’t see a setting to disable it. Can you at least not make it a modal? It is a horrendous UX needing to appease the banner in order for anything to work on the page. Thanks 🙏