Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough.

I always wonder how people can live with calendars that start the week on a Sunday (like @github’s). It feels so irrational – even there the weekend is still Saturday and Sunday! 😄.

First year of parenting is over :) That’s a completely different wonderful life now.

IMHO, “Steve Jobs” is written far better than “Elon Musk”. While reading Musk’s bio, I felt Isaacson was pushing the idea that Elon is a victim of his own nature — with less empathy for those he hurt. Jobs’ story, in contrast, feels more balanced: sympathetic but not biased. To.

Just finished Isaacson’s Steve Jobs. I’d put it off, expecting a typical biography — but it’s so much more. It dives deep into tech history and is incredibly insightful for sharpening product vision. Maybe I loved it because I share the belief: great, cool products sell.

Just merged a TUI for our new TPC-C implementation. The implementation is based on C++-20 coroutines and consumes 200x less RAM than Benchbase written in Java. But to be fair, I did put serious effort into optimizing. Hope to share more implementation details soon :)

With all the current vibes, it feels like it's time to update that classic xkcd comic :)

I really enjoyed the presentation! The most interesting part for me was the practical comparison of normalization vs. denormalization. Theory purists fanatically normalize everything with Ignit and Ferrum. However, Franck clearly shows that denormalization can be just as

RT @PalisadeAI: 🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly….

Performance debugging is always truly fun. I spent almost 3 days chasing low gRPC performance in my client to figure out that NDEBUG wasn’t defined, making Abseil (and gRPC) painfully slow. Turns out, recently I had confused --build=<profile: release|debug|etc> and.

Probably, very soon you will not have to team lead to do more, but stay IC with agents helping a lot. But currently I have a very mixed feelings about AI written code. Sometimes it is great, sometimes it completely sucks.

RT @breckcs: @jorandirkgreef Many of the biggest breakthroughs I've seen have come from testing something you expect to be linear up to a c….

One of the most important takeaways: extensions like @citusdata don’t turn @PostgreSQL into a true distributed DBMS — they add sharding, but not distributed transactions or isolation. In contrast, @Yugabyte, a PostgreSQL fork, does. Other distributed DBMSs may offer varying.

Dear friends, I have a new blog post for you: “Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough.” Inspired by great posts from @FranckPachot and @denismagda , it expands on them with additional concerns you shouldn’t overlook.

RT @paulg: I just realized something most people are going to lose when (as they inevitably will) they start using AIs to write everything….

Honestly, I didn’t know how keyboards worked. A great short description shared by my colleague: