Chris

Two weeks ago, @planetscale.com launched TIN. They benchmarked it against us, and it was very fast. So we spent those two weeks making ParadeDB faster without their tradeoffs. Today, we are faster than TIN. www.paradedb.com/blog/opening...

I’m a big fan of Clickhouse for observability with their otlp ingest and HTTP SQL endpoint (and an agent pointed at the latter). Also keeping an eye on smithclay.github.io/duckdb-otlp/ for the same sort of stack with DuckDB.

Things are getting weird. I no longer know whether I’m engaging with a human, a human using AI, or an AI on its own. This is problematic. rng.md/posts/on-cha...

Spent the past week on SlateDB's DST harness. It was a bit of a slog. The more state I explored, the more false positives I encountered. rng.md/posts/determ...

Almog Gavra - The broken economics of databases www.bitsxpages.com/p/the-broken...

In-kernel filesystem are going to destroy the FUSE ecosystem. Bringing your custom logic into the VFS directly is absolutely incredible for performance and latency.

Finally got around to writing this up.

Considering local coding models. Speed, cost, and predictability are starting to matter more to me than ever-increasing top-end reasoning.

The team worked insane hours to get this release ready and we've finally shipped it! We built a first of its kind, prometheus-compatible database that is object native. ~22x cheaper than AWS AMP and stupid easy to operate. www.opendata.dev/blog/introdu...

A silly little TIL trick I learned recently. Comes in handy when debugging time-dependent races and such.

Exploring Apache Iceberg and SlateDB formats - with a repo link for additional exploration. datapapers.substack.com/p/exploring-...

If you formed your opinion of agentic coding more than four months ago, I strongly encourage you to reevaluate.

Stu's talk is now available for anyone who couldn't attend South Bay Systems to watch: youtu.be/TeFsBVIYBis?... I highly recommend watching it. It's ~30 minutes and goes into details on how ParadeDB achieves faster-than-Postgres JOINs.

🎂 Commonhaus Foundation Marks Two Years as Open Source’s ‘Missing Middle’ — and Maintainers Are Taking Notice. Commonhaus’ 2nd anniversary www.commonhaus.org/activity/305...

New post! I used to think the future was formal specs + model checkers. Now I think it’s English + tests + quality gates.

Welp, off to the factory to shovel tokens into the furnace!

Some notes on how to vibe coded projects more stable.

1/4. Today, a bit of a different blog post. James from our team sat down with @fulmicoton.bsky.social, the main author of Tantivy, to discuss his journey and how he created such a world-changing project. 🧵

New post! I now see open source projects as materialized agent output–cached code. Its purpose is to save me time and tokens.

I started picking up on this vibe a few months ago. I started feeling it myself in the past month. Something is happening. I don’t know what it is, but it’s exciting. rng.md/posts/someth...

I know a lot of you probably read or at least own the first edition of DDIA, but don't sleep on this, because it's a major update. Sixty new pages, chapters dropped, reordered, rewritten. @martin.kleppmann.com and @chris.blue have done a master job ensuring the 2nd edition up-to-date and relevant.

Spent some time with UniFFI this weekend. Experimenting with it for SlateDB's official bindings. It seems really nice! Anyone out there using it? If so, what has your experience been? github.com/mozilla/unif...

Just received my author copies of the second edition of DDIA! After years of seeing it only on-screen, holding the final print book in hand is very special. @chris.blue

Feedback need: SlateDB's Python API uses pyo3, which supports Python/Rust async integration. The other bindings use slatedb-c (C FFI ABI), which is sync. Ideally, I want all bindings use one layer (FFI) to simplify maintenance. Should I ditch pyo3 and async Python support, tho?

"A background job queueing system built on top of object storage via slatedb" 🤩 Was just talking about the need for this with @almog.xyz today! github.com/gadget-inc/s...

To serve, stick around.

Excited to enable pipelining by default in s2-lite with this upgrade! Expect lower latency and higher throughput. github.com/s2-streamsto...

Serverless is a mess. Persistent VMs for the win. blog.exe.dev/persistent

“Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s how adoption works when you’re building something new. Opendata is still "gradually" but 100 stars with $0 spent on marketing is a good start. Back to building! github.com/opendata-oss...

Tolja

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

We (@chris.blue and I) did an interview for the @antithesis.com Bug Bash podcast. It was an interesting discussion!

We have landed on an open source monorepo for the Rust SDK, CLI, and s2-lite github.com/s2-streamsto...

> Rimio is a lightweight write-back cache that accelerates object-native systems (SlateDB, ZeroFS, JuiceFS, NeonDB, Greptime, Databend, WarpStream, Thanos, etc.) for edge and on-prem clusters with minimal operational overhead. 🤩 github.com/flaneur2020/...

OpenAI hired the openclaw guy.