Two BM25 optimizations and benchmark configuration changes inspired by PlanetScale's TIN benchmarks make ParadeDB's text search faster without changing its document identifiers.

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

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

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

Why database companies charge so much, earn so little, and keep making things complicated

The settings, plugins, fonts, and CSS I use to make Obsidian feel like Bear.

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

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.

I use yes to saturate CPUs and reproduce flaky tests failures. Pair it with a small loop helper to rerun the test until it fails.

What is common between Apache Icerberg, SlateDB and object-store first table formats? Explore with real examples.

YouTube video by South Bay Systems

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

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

Short posts on engineering, venture capital, AI, and more.

A CLAUDE.md for vibe-coded projects. Defines agent-enforced quality gates for tests, lint, complexity limits, security checks, and performance regressions.

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

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

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

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

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

Discover slatedb in the io.slatedb namespace. Explore metadata, contributors, the Maven POM file, and more.

On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks.