LLMs might teach us something about discourse. Imagine if it was socially acceptable within an argument or discussion to pause and say "Thinking longer for a better answer"

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format: → Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu... → CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa... → SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

Is anyone working on a K8s alternative? Kinda curious.

Since I spent the entire first half of the day going over at least a 150+ CVs, I'll just mention a few Dos and Don't. These aren't cardinal rules (I also make mistakes). But here we go: 1. Proof of work. Done similar work? I'll likely trust you to ramp up quickly

This is still a thing. I'm hiring 2 engineers. DM me or Email your CV at manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com.

My London #KubeCon / #CloudNativeCon 2025 talk is now up! Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufY_...

Are there Senior/Staff+ Engineers on my timeline who want to work on the intersection of #Databases, #Caches, #Infra, Kubernetes/Operators and #Scaling #Algorithms (think time series, predictive scaling etc)? If so, please drop me a DM. Our small but mighty team at ClickHouse is growing!

In #London this week to attend KubeCon. My colleague Jayme Bird and I will be doing a talk about a year long dtatefulset orchestration migration in ClickHouse cloud. Do attend the talk if you are interested in operators, durable execution or databases. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Kubecon2025

Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...

Learning German is more difficult than learning C++.

Reading the FoundationDB Paper today at the work #papers group. Such a great read.

Whoever said Go is a minimal language is a liar.

First NYC Systems talks of 2025 tonight! See you there!

What resources would you recommend to learn C++ in 2025?

Berlin Systems Group berlinsystems.xyz will host our 5th meetup this evening. Come Join us to talk about Apache Iceberg and LLVM. If you are into Compilers, Distributed Systems, Databases, Formal Verifications, Programming Languages etc, this is the place for you.

Berlin Systems Group is back with its 5th edition! Happening Feb 5th - we will have 2 talks: on Apache Iceberg and LLVM. Register here: lu.ma/7gzae6az

Billion Row Challenge for JSON? Yes Please jsonbench.com

Super excited to announce that my talk "Dancing with the Pods: Live migration of a database fleet while serving millions of queries" was accepted for KubeCon 2025 London. #kubecon #kubernetes #clickhouse

When you send someone a linkedin request without a note etc, what is your expectation? Not judging, just curious. I’m guilty of doing the same and would like to understand this.

Finished Stormlight Archive Book 5 (Wind and Truth) by Brandon Sanderson. I need more Stormlight content in my life so I've spent the last few days grabbing all I can. On towards Dawnshard, which is a Novella that I somehow missed. #booksky

Rewrite it in Rust is still a thing in 2025:https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

I appreciate all the hip-hop references.

In 2025 I want to meet less talkers and more builders.

A bit late, but finally published my collection of good papers, blogs, videos (and one book). So we can all enjoy reading over the holidays and start 2025 inspired. open.substack.com/pub/hackings...

Insane is a good word to describe it. A freaking horror show that I can’t stop watching.

Some things are more fun than databases tbh.

Being a non European in Europe during Christmas can be very lonely.

Trying out Ghostty. First impressions - Kitty has better rendering and feels much more "stable". So does WezTerm. I use both as daily drivers.

i was in the data warehouse the other night, in the restricted section...

Thanks for the cool @incident.io swag, @evns.io !

How popular is StackOverflow these days?

The song I didn't know I needed in my life.

intermittently fasting when i am asleep and unable to eat

Alexey's @clickhouse.com talk here is hilariously off-the-chain. I highly recommend watching it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmVx... You can hear me yelling at him from the audience at 1:09, 2:40, and 7:33.

If JSON databases are a thing, why aren't YAML databases?!? Think about it.

What's a good sound-bar to pair with an OLED for movies/gaming? Also in the market for a TV unit tbh. :)

What are folks buying during Black Friday week?

Some notes on the new AWS S3 conditional write feature where you can use an if-match header to avoid over-writing an object if it's been changed since you last read it simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/...

bait aside this is what i mean - not dying, but struggling to be reborn at the very least

How do I become a part of a #Berlin Hackerspace? Are they fun? Any experiences folks have? Would love to hear from people who are part of hackerspaces / makerspaces!

Really good writeup from @dominiktornow.bsky.social. Very information dense.

Exciting times

Submitted a #KubeCon / #CloudNativeCon EU Talk. 🤞 My favourite part is coming up with interesting titles for the talks :) This time I went with "Dancing with the Pods: Live migration of a database fleet while serving millions of queries". Quite proud of that one!

Publishing a post "What Did ASF Do Wrong?" to explore ways to attract more contributors—feel free to join the discussion with me. xuanwo.io/2024/09-what...

Our post on profiling LuaJIT is on the front page of HN right now, give it a read and let us know if you have any questions!

mein kraft

@bsky.app feature request - the ability to convert a starter pack to a list without following people. Super handy to separate different kinds of feeds!

If you are looking for LLM stuff to read/study, I added lots of bonus from-scratch coding resources over the last few months (from implementing Llama 3.2 to preference tuning with DPO): github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f... I hope you find them useful! PS: more to come soon when I am back from a trip!

Gangs of Wasseypur