Paul Power
@peerside
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Building data platforms at @aerlingus. ex @elastic, @workday, @informatica and @OrbixIs20.
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined March 2007
@_philschmid treating errors as signals rather than failures is the core engineering pivot most teams miss/missing.
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is this the future of websites? this new Parallel Web Systems startup of ex Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal have two options on their site HUMAN and MACHINE HUMAN one is usual webpages and MACHINE shows the page as markdown
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70% of production AI teams use open source models. 72.5% connect agents to databases, not chat interfaces. This is what 375 technical builders actually ship - & it looks nothing like Twitter AI. 70% of teams use open source models in some capacity. 48% describe their strategy as
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Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me. An exceptional response to Trump's little people! The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House âJack White is a
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The end of the internal combustion engine? Sales of petrol and diesel cars in China peaked in 2017 and are now falling rapidly. The shift to electric and low-carbon transport is well underwayâand EV sales are rising fast.
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For too long, the composable data stack has lacked a solid distributed compute layer. Our latest blog post covers why we believe Sail is the last missing piece, definitely worth a read. Read the full post:
lakesail.com
The future of data is composable. Sail brings distributed computation into that visionâmodular, Arrow-native, and Spark-compatible.
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Wow, what a presentation by Hannes about the history of data architecture with its changes in architecture from 1985 to 2025 with DuckDB and in general. I took a lot of notes, some of which are illustrated below in my current Obsidian Vault.
The PyData Amsterdam 2025 keynote âMinus Three Tier: Data Architecture Turned Upside Downâ by Hannes MĂźhleisen is out now. https://t.co/T9PlBhZISI
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it's genocide (@amnesty) it's genocide (@hrw) it's genocide (@btselem) it's genocide (@MSF) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (@AlHaq) it's genocide (@UNHumanRights) it's genocide (@UN_HRC) it's genoicde (@pchrgaza) it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter) it's genocide (@WarOnWant) it's
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Major new transatlantic data cable to be built from Cork to US. 320 terabits per sec would make it one of the highest capacity across the ocean, bar none. AWS says Cork route (unusual, often Mayo/Dublin) is to help deal with âissuesâ cabling faces) https://t.co/TfRzpZqh3e
independent.ie
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a new high-speed transatlantic cable from Cork to Maryland in the US to power global internet traffic and its data ...
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The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened âhow fast people on bikes âappearedâ âonce streets were transformed. You canât write this off as â#Paris was always this way,â because it wasnât. It took leadership. https://t.co/DJHxcn13Zr
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Really thoughtful piece written by @dionlim whoâs seen previous cycles of boom and bust. I think this one has real staying power! https://t.co/Duk9eD51in
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So these researchers figured out you can basically hallucinate 3D cities into existence using just satellite photos & a diffusion model. The problem's pretty straightforward: satellites only see rooftops. Building facades? Invisible. Street-level detail? Doesn't exist. But
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Kudos to OpenAI team for their guide on what makes documentation good - it's brilliant! 𼳠Few gems that stood out: > Make docs easy to skim â clear titles, short paras, bullets & bold text > Write simply â cut jargon, avoid abbreviations, explain even âobviousâ steps > Be
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Some additional details emerge about the F5 breach: the hackers were in the company's network for at least 12 months, according to people familiar with the investigation. F5 sent customers on Wednesday a threat hunting guide for Brickstorm, which is leveraged by the UNC5221
bloomberg.com
A potentially âcatastrophicâ breach of a major US-based cybersecurity provider has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The "lightbulb of the 21st century": battery costs are down 50% v. 18 months ago, and 95%+ v. 2010 It's a drastic drop of unimaginable proportions, looking back just 3 years: The BESS revolution is driving the clean energy transformation worldwide https://t.co/Qp0Pt63BYC
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đ¨I'm beyond ecstatic to announce that we've raised $6M in seed funding to launch Unikraft Cloud -- the only platform that can start *any* workload in < 10ms and scale to 100K+ instances on a single server with instantaneous scale to zero...think catering to millions of users on
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Here is how the AI bubble is being created, per Bloomberg:
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