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CEO @ Decodable. Systems, databases, stream processing. O’Reilly author, ex-Cloudera, Splunk, Rocana, and others. https://www.decodable.co
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The kind of thing being posted in Decodable's slack today (this one is from @rmoff.net):

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And his epitaph read:

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Poll: We (Decodable) have a managed stream processing platform. It has a control plane (CP) and data plane (DP). We always run the CP. Customers can choose to let us run the DP or they can run it in their VPC (BYOC). What do you call the type of account where we run both the CP and DP? Plz repost!

submitted 128 days ago • 10 comments

Unsolicited evergreen career advice: show up for interviews or at least send a note if you can't make it.

submitted 128 days ago • 3 comments

The current discourse on disaggregated compute and storage in data infra says local disk is bad. I think this lacks nuance. Local persistent disk (e.g. EBS) is bad. Ephemeral local disk should be embraced as a block cache for reads and staging of writes to durable storage. The cost/op is a win.

submitted 128 days ago • 6 comments

Strongly considering open sourcing a bunch of our key docs and templates at Decodable for technical (would-be) founders: MSA, NDA, operational model, marketing and sales funnel / revenue model. Stuff like that. Is this interesting to anyone but me?

submitted 128 days ago • 4 comments

I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more. go.bsky.app/SCZe42X

submitted 128 days ago • 44 comments

Of course my first real contribution to tech-bluesky is to complain about the ergonomics of a async programming in Rust. I'm the worst.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

I've been writing a ton of Rust lately. I know this isn't a hot take, and I know why it's the way that it is, but async still feels so bolt-on. The way async, closures, generics, and (object-safe) traits work together (or don't) is really painful. It's still good, but it definitely hinders adoption.

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

I’d be immensely excited to rebuild tech twitter here. Let’s make it happen.

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

Hello world.

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