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Philip Z @philz.dev · 04/06/2026

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.

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DuckDB OpenTelemetry Extension

duckdb-otlp: query OpenTelemetry traces, logs, and metrics with DuckDB.

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Chris @chris.blue · 01/05/2026

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...

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On Chaos and Turning Inward

Musings on uncertainty and the virtues of control, transparency, and small communities.

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Chris @chris.blue · 27/04/2026

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...

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Deterministic Simulation Testing Is Really Hard

The more state you explore, the more false positives you'll encounter.

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Shivansh Vij @shivanshvij.com · 21/04/2026

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.

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Chris @chris.blue · 17/04/2026

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

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Maybe It’s Time To Start Looking at Local Coding Models

Speed, cost, and predictability are starting to matter more to me than top-end reasoning.

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Almog @almog.xyz · 16/04/2026

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...

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OpenData Timeseries: Prometheus-compatible metrics on object storage | OpenData

An MIT-licensed, Prometheus-compatible timeseries database built on SlateDB, bringing the operating model and cost structure of object-store-native systems to the Prometheus and Grafana ecosystem.

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Chris @chris.blue · 11/04/2026

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

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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.

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Generalized Consensus & Native Top-K Joins in ParadeDB

YouTube video by South Bay Systems

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Commonhaus Foundation @commonhaus.org · 10/04/2026

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

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🎂 Commonhaus Foundation Marks Two Years as Open Source’s ‘Missi…

Commonhaus Foundation celebrates its second anniversary, while it doubles project count as burnout and succession crisis quietly deepens across the open s…

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Chris @chris.blue · 08/04/2026

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

rng.md

The Waymo Rule for AI-Generated Code

AI-generated code doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be better than you.

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Chris @chris.blue · 08/04/2026

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

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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. 🧵

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Chris @chris.blue · 07/04/2026

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

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Open Source Projects Are Cached Agent Output

Open source projects should become customizable kernels that save users time and tokens.

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/04/2026

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...

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Something Is Happening

Building is sparking joy. Everyone I talk to is shaking with excitement. I'm not sure where this goes, but it sure is fun.

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Chris @chris.blue · 31/03/2026

@buttondown.com your dashboard, archives, subscription links are fully offline.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 25/03/2026

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.

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Chris @chris.blue · 15/03/2026

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...

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GitHub - mozilla/uniffi-rs: a multi-language bindings generator for rust

a multi-language bindings generator for rust. Contribute to mozilla/uniffi-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 04/03/2026

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

A print copy of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition

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Chris @chris.blue · 04/03/2026

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?

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Chris @chris.blue · 04/03/2026

"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...

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GitHub - gadget-inc/silo: experimental background queuing system on object storage

experimental background queuing system on object storage - gadget-inc/silo

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exe @exe.dev · 03/03/2026

To serve, stick around.

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shikhar @schmizz.net · 03/03/2026

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

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default to pipelining appends and remove `S2LITE_PIPELINE` knob · Issue #48 · s2-streamstore/s2

Improves performance a lot against high-latency object storage Depends on slatedb/slatedb#1138

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/03/2026

SlateDB 0.11.0 is out! We had 5 new RFCs, 10 new contributors, and 3 new language bindings. This is a big release with a bunch of improvements and new features. 🧵

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Almog @almog.xyz · 02/03/2026

“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...

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 18/02/2026

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!)

Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 18/02/2026

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

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Chris @chris.blue · 16/02/2026

> 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/...

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GitHub - flaneur2020/rimio

Contribute to flaneur2020/rimio development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Chris @chris.blue · 15/02/2026

I’m reading the blade runner book right now (do androids dream of electric sheep) and it got me thinking. The internet is infested by bots. I kind of feel in the long run that the public internet will be bot-only, or largely bot stuff and a bit of human stuff.

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Chris @chris.blue · 15/02/2026

Apple purchased KuzuDB.

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

ladybugdb.com is the fork & continue project, but I think there’s a slightly different roadmap to be more object storage integrated

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LadybugDB - Open Source Columnar Graph Database

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Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

kellabyte.substack.com/p/building-a... -- Exactly the kind of thing that shows the power of DataFusion. You can build the database and not (re) build the core query engine

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Building A Distributed SQL Database in 30 Days with AI

My journey building HoloStore a distributed key/value store and HoloFusion a distributed SQL DB using AI using the Accord consensus protocol from Cassandra.

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Philip Z @philz.dev · 11/02/2026

I've been saving my prompts (and thereby intentions) by using a git commit hook. Surprisingly easy, because you can have "git commit" error out with instructions for the agent. 10/10, will hook again. philz.dev/blog/git-com...

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Git Commit Prompt Hook

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Almog @almog.xyz · 10/02/2026

I implemented prefix compression for SlateDB & noticed benchmarks looked "worse". Fell down a rabbit hole. Turns out I was thinking about compression backwards... Wrote up my learning: www.bitsxpages.com/p/the-mathem...

bitsxpages.com

the mathematics of compression in database systems

why compression is (almost) always worthwhile

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

ParadeDB is hiring someone to help build integrations. ORMs, RAG frameworks, PaaS, etc. Remote within US/Canada timezones, preference for PST. You'll work directly with me. It's the perfect time to join, just ahead of the 1.0 later this year.

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Chris @chris.blue · 08/02/2026

Thinking my aversion to compile-time breaking API changes is over indexed for the pre-AI era. AI is quite good at refactoring calls when a breaking API change occurs (especially when the change is documented). So cost and impact of breaking API changes has dropped dramatically.

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Philip Z @philz.dev · 03/02/2026

Wrote blog.exe.dev/expensively-... to dig into how cache reads costs dominate LLM agent conversations. Several visualizations and one terrible pun included!

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TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 04/02/2026

TigerStyle.dev A new, visual home for TigerStyle -- the software engineering methodology developed by TigerBeetle to produce safer, faster software in less time. "Do the hard thing today to make tomorrow easy." "If you want to be remembered, be remarkable."

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 04/02/2026

I've been experimenting with distributing Go binaries as wheels on PyPI so you can execute them without installing them first using commands like "uvx sqlite-scanner ~/Downloads" - I wrote sqlite-scanner in Go I built go-to-wheel to help implement this pattern simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/d...

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Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

I’ve been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I’m enjoying how there’s generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring …

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you use LangChain / etc. RAG frameworks today, I'd love to ask you a few questions! DMs open

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Chris @chris.blue · 04/02/2026

Put up a SlateDB Java FFI binding PR today: github.com/slatedb/slat... And a WAL-based CDC PR as well: github.com/slatedb/slat... Community has several metadata RFCs up as well. 🚀 Some fairly big companies are evaluating it now, too!

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Add FFI Java 24 `slatedb-java` bindings by criccomini · Pull Request #1253 · slatedb/slatedb

Summary This pull request introduces a new Java 24 binding for SlateDB using Java's new Foreign Function and Memory (FFM) API. The changes add a complete Gradle-based Java project (slatedb-java...

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