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ry.codes
BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
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If the value you add as a SaaS or platform is limited to reducing "Day Zero" toil, you are imminently replaceable by AI. The only ROI these days is reducing "Day N" operating costs, where AI starts to drop the ball.

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First time in the show ring for puppy Anthem, and also MY first time handling. Neither of us had any idea what was going on.

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A fair amount of the excitement around Iceberg is actually misplaced excitement about a catalog that isn't HMS.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Your algorithms are no match for Advanced Phishing Technique.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

For some reason we all stopped doing meetups for a few years. Let's fix that. See you in Santa Clara on Thursday. www.meetup.com/futureofdata...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Doing our thing

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Marjory never misses.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

SQL is easy until someone else writes it.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I don't like how right I am about this.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I'm calling this concept "the plug-and-play data stack". You can just install an Engine and your queries and pipelines will magically start using it. Need to flesh out the capabilities and cost metadata to help the planner/optimizer along.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Naturally, I'm purchasing a bunch of steel for the first time in my life right as tariffs take effect.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Puppy's first title!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Pennies are a trial balloon for stopping the printing of all money in an effort to reverse inflation via EO.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

GenAI harnesses emergence to achieve some measure of intelligence. But emergence brought about a LOT of *life* before it got to intelligence. Where is the modern version of "artificial life"? Are we just afraid to build it?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Just found out I could have the same SSN many times over.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

All of software engineering is rules and standards and processes, none of which are real. The profession is steeped in tradition, because it is filled with people who don't really understand how things work. It's a bunch of high priests throwing bones.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Who needs a deep state when you can have a shadow government.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Not for the first time, I just spent several hours doing something I know an LLM would have been better at.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Tarriffs

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Here I thought doomscrolling required an algorithm. Turns out it just needs doom.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

"The buyouts are a signal of expected cuts within Google as it ... expands its spending on AI infrastructure in 2025." Y'all are literally being replaced by machines and just haven't realized it yet. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Status: trying and failing to not rewrite Calcite Avatica from scratch.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

The federal shut down feels eerily familiar to when Elon & co took over Twitter. They came in, asked no questions, had no idea who did what and it was absolute chaos. That was a social media platform. This is the country. People are going to die because these are incompetent cruel bullies.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Remember when computers got super fast and cheap and then everyone stopped using them?

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Hoptimator is difficult to explain, so here's an example. www.linkedin.com/pulse/kafka-...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

There is a type of engineer who is obsessed with "requirements gathering". I have a lot of theories as to why. On one occasion I was able to talk someone out of this mindset and found a great engineer hidden inside. But usually these people are just incompetent.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It's funny how Stargate is in the news right as DeepSeek is giving everyone GPU buyer's remorse.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Limelight doing nose work.

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Anthem (4mons) is exhausted from hours of hiking and training. Peart (19y) is exhausted from being old.

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