Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 22/09/2026Should busy people (CEO?) be able to drive an agent in your codebase? Some interesting thoughts x.com/poteto/statu...x.com 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 18/09/2026#xarray #zarr #duckdb #sql a new combination www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXii... really cool videoyoutube.comScientific Computing on Multidimensional Arrays with DuckDB & XQL | Alex MeroseYouTube video by MotherDuck 131
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 04/09/2026great talk @defcon.bsky.social by @schneier.com on the #gini problem of #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv...youtube.comDEF CON 34 - Hacking AI - Bruce SchneierYouTube video by DEFCONConference 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 02/09/2026#scipy26 was awesome! The videos are up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uC6... this one is our talk about making supercomputers nice to use with dagster. Due to the great hallway track of scipy we are now even part of the official docs docs.rapids.ai/deployment/n...youtube.comDagster-slurm: Bringing Modern Data Orchestration to Slurm-Managed - Hernan Picatto, Georg HeilerSciPy 2026 - www.scipy2026.scipy.org/ dagster-slurm is an open-source Python integration that allows data scientists and research software engineers to run Dagster pipeline assets on both a laptop… 230
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/08/2026#ai and #students #teaching www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUk2...youtube.comAI & The University - Carson Gross | SSW 2026YouTube video by Software Should Work 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 31/07/2026Lamport: We should not accept this (too complex systems). Especially true in the age of AI! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYC... 030
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 02/07/2026Incremental Multimodal Graphs Declare one traceable feature model, store expensive multimodal outputs once, then query the same facts across LanceDB, Lance Graph, DuckPGQ, and LadybugDB. The graph engine should be a choice, not a rewrite. georgheiler.com/2026/06/29/i...georgheiler.comIncremental Multimodal Graphs | Georg HeilerA small local example combining Polars, LanceDB, Metaxy metadata, Lance Graph Cypher, DuckPGQ, and LadybugDB. 030
Reposted by Georg HeilerJournal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Just published in JOSS: 'Metaxy: Record-Level Feature Metadata Management for Multimodal ML Pipelines' doi.org/10.21105/joss.10449 021
Reposted by Georg HeilerMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 13/06/2026The fact that the US government specifically ordered the suspension of Fable access to non-US citizens (www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...) raises exactly the kind of technological sovereignty concerns I discussed in my QCon keynote a few months ago (www.infoq.com/presentation...)anthropic.comStatement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. 111019
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 24/05/2026#challenging #shareholder-primacy ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VKl... in any case a really great video of @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gyyoutube.comHow The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And RotYouTube video by Y Combinator 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 24/05/2026#agentic #coding and its #challenges www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n41...youtube.comSoftware engineering at the tipping pointYouTube video by Google for Developers 020
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 23/05/2026Anyone struggling with multimodal? RAG? Keeping stuff in sync? See you at the next VDSG Meetup www.meetup.com/de-DE/vienna...meetup.comThe Psychology of Data Transformations & Optimizing Multimodal AI Pipelines , Fr., 29. Mai 2026, 18:00 | MeetupDear Data Enthusiasts, Join us again on **29th of May** at **A1** to learn about the psychological implications on employees when transforming the data landscape of an org 001
Reposted by Georg HeilerRobin Linacre @robinlinacre.bsky.social · 18/05/2026New blog: Optimising DuckDB performance on large EC2 instances. A few simple changes can make workloads run multiple times faster: - Fewer threads can result in higher performance - Pay careful attention to disk I/O - Experiment with how to write data to S3 www.robinlinacre.com/optimising_d... 081
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/05/2026The #data #engineering meetup is back in Vienna www.meetup.com/de-DE/vienna... Join us for a talk s about: Why AI Systems Fail and more!meetup.com23rd Vienna Data Engineering Meetup, Do., 21. Mai 2026, 18:00 | Meetup👋 Welcome Back Data People! It's Meetup #23 but after a long pause we have our FIRST event from our new organising committee! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Rigerta, Thorsten, Boris, Geor 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 18/04/2026When working with AI mastering the VCS becomes ever more important. Learn more about worktrees, and stacking with stax georgheiler.com/2026/03/17/s...georgheiler.comStacked PRs and AI Worktrees | Georg HeilerAI coding agents increase output, but they also increase pressure on code review and branch management. Stacked pull requests and isolated worktrees help keep changes small and easy to integrate. 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 22/03/2026Nice #rust and #graphs grafeo.dev good fit for #databasesgrafeo.devGrafeo - High-Performance Graph Database - GrafeoA high-performance, embeddable graph database with a Rust core and no required C dependencies. Python, Node.js, Go, C, C#, Dart and WebAssembly bindings. GQL (ISO standard) query language. 000
Reposted by Georg HeilerJournal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Just published in JOSS: 'Discovering the SUPER in computing - dagster-slurm for reproducible research on HPC' doi.org/10.21105/joss.09795 022
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 19/03/2026I hope that github.com/ascii-supply... can help to a) simplify access to sovereign AI compute for newcomers and b) help experts with tigher observability.github.comGitHub - ascii-supply-networks/dagster-slurm: Dagster SLURM integrationDagster SLURM integration. Contribute to ascii-supply-networks/dagster-slurm development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 04/03/2026Multimodal data handling is different! Especially with regards to complexity and cost. Daniel Gafni and I built Metaxy (docs.metaxy.io) to simplify Efficient Multimodal Pipelinesgeorgheiler.comMetaxy + Dagster-Slurm for Efficient Multimodal Pipelines | Georg HeilerHow to combine Metaxy, Dagster-Slurm, Docling, and Ray to run incremental multimodal pipelines on sovereign AI infrastructure. 100
Reposted by Georg HeilerChristian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/02/2026Read how Magenta (👋 @geoheil.com and @milicevica23.bsky.social ) uses Dagster+ to feel a bit of that joy: dagster.io/customers/ho...dagster.ioMagenta Telekom Case Study | DagsterLearn how Magenta Telekom replaced fragmented, manual data workflows with a modular, Dagster-powered platform that reduced onboarding from 3 months to 1 day and laid the foundation for AI-driven decis... 001
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 20/02/2026github.com/cesarferreir... #rust #stacking is awesomegithub.comGitHub - cesarferreira/stax: The fastest stacked-branch workflow for Git. Interactive TUI, smart PRs, safe undo. Written in Rust.The fastest stacked-branch workflow for Git. Interactive TUI, smart PRs, safe undo. Written in Rust. - cesarferreira/stax 110
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 18/02/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGA0...youtube.comHannes Werthner "The Role of Computer Science in the Age of AI (or Digital Humanism?)"YouTube video by Digital Humanism 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/01/2026An European sovereign GPU cloud does not come out of nowhere maybe this project can support making HPC systems more accessible. The recently started projects will take a long time to complete. I hope github.com/ascii-supply... will help.github.comGitHub - ascii-supply-networks/dagster-slurm: Dagster SLURM integrationDagster SLURM integration. Contribute to ascii-supply-networks/dagster-slurm development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 22/12/2025#great talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRg1... on #architecture for #engineersyoutube.comModern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025YouTube video by NDC Conferences 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 10/12/2025The OSACon recordings are available now www.youtube.com/watch?v=31LH...youtube.comScaling data pipelines @ Magenta Telekom - OSA Con 2025Presented by Georg Heiler at OSA Con 2025. Magenta Telekom ingests many terabytes of new data every day, and every downstream consumer wants it immediately. The real bottleneck turned out not to be… 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 04/12/2025#python #together pytogether.org nicepytogether.orgPyTogether - Real-Time Collaborative Python IDECollaborative Python IDE for students, educators, and teams. 020
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 26/11/2025interesting new #timeseries #database #xtdb xtdb.com see the great #cmu video for details www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqD...youtube.comReconstructing History with XTDB (Jeremy Taylor + James Henderson)YouTube video by CMU Database Group 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 11/11/2025github.com/mxschmitt/ac... #tmux #action-tmate - really neat #debugginggithub.comGitHub - mxschmitt/action-tmate: Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself. - mxschmitt/action-tmate 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 06/11/2025A great video about LLMs and the data they can provide to the world - even though perhaps they should not | www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BI... - DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walshyoutube.comDEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick WalshThis talk explores the hidden risks in apps leveraging modern AI systems—especially those using large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. We demonstrate how… 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 04/11/2025#rust #fory #serialization fory.apache.org/blog/fory_ru...fory.apache.orgIntroducing Apache Fory™ Rust: A Versatile Serialization Framework for the Modern Age | Apache Fory™TL;DR: Apache Fory Rust is a blazingly-fast, cross-language serialization framework that delivers ultra-fast serialization performance while automatically handling circular references, trait objects, ... 010
Reposted by Georg HeilerAdrian Brudaru @datateam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025The real AI win isn't superhuman agents, it's scaled mediocrity. Doing less with less at massive scale unlocks tasks that were once uneconomical. The magic is in aggregate value, not perfect outputs. Empower teams with practical AI tools. 🔗 dlthub.com/blog/the-real-ai-win-sca… 131
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 14/10/2025#dsc-dach #data it was a. pleasure to share an introductory workshop about spark and data pipelines. Thank you Aleks for the great collaboration! Find the workshop files here if you want to follow along github.com/l-mds/dsc-da...github.comGitHub - l-mds/dsc-dach-tutorial-dagster: Introduction to using and scaling dagsterIntroduction to using and scaling dagster. Contribute to l-mds/dsc-dach-tutorial-dagster development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/10/2025#duckdb #ducklake #cmu www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Gh...youtube.comDuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust “Lakehouse” (Jordan Tigani)YouTube video by CMU Database Group 071
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/10/2025Something about super and computing in the making anyone daring out there who wants to explore? Or folks who want to exchange ideas about SLURM, HET jobs and advanced resource management? github.com/ascii-supply...github.comfeat: build SLURM integration for dagster by HPicatto · Pull Request #19 · ascii-supply-networks/dagster-slurmType of Change feat: New feature fix: Bug fix docs: Documentation style: Code style refactor: Code refactor perf: Performance improvement test: Tests chore: Maintenance Description adds ... 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 07/10/2025Simple Sovereign Scalable Data Stack georgheiler.com/event/tdwi-2... precursor: pypi.org/project/dags... github.com/dagster-io/c... if you want to see this in action join in Nürnberg or Vienna for some sovereign, scalable data talks in the coming weeksgeorgheiler.comSimple Sovereign Scalable Data Stack | Georg HeilerTired of cloud lock-in and surprise bills? This talk shows how to build a fast, portable analytics stack around DuckDB and Dagster. Along the way of our journey to sovereignty and scale we touch on… 260
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 30/09/2025#duckdb #multimodal #rag www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qSZ... blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckd...youtube.comWhen the duck quacks: Multimodal querying with FlockMTLYouTube video by DuckDB 030
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 25/09/2025#compliance #anonymization #python www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQd...youtube.comKatharine Jarmul - Anonymization: Why is it so hard? (PyData Prague #27)YouTube video by PyData 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 24/09/2025#gis #medium-data #sedona #rust #datafusion sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...sedona.apache.orgIntroducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen - Apache SedonaApache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of... 000
Reposted by Georg HeilerDuckDB @duckdb.org · 16/09/2025📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a... 05221
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 02/09/2025A living Elo leaderboard for analytics/OLAP engines. Public benchmarks (TPC-DS/H, SSB, vendor & community posts) becomes a “match.” Upsets + context matter. Browse the board & poke holes: rebrand.ly/ey6y7hfdata-inconsistencies.datajourney.expertHome | Data inconsistenciesData inconsistencies, architecuture and real world stories 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 22/08/2025#owasp now gearing up for #llm and #genai - Multi-Agentic system Threat Modeling Guide v1.0 genai.owasp.org/resource/mul...genai.owasp.orgMulti-Agentic system Threat Modeling Guide v1.0This guide builds on the OWASP Agentic AI – Threats and Mitigations publication, our master agentic threat taxonomy, by applying its threat taxonomy to real-world multi-agent systems (MAS). These… 010
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 12/08/2025cool - feature server goes #duckdb #gis github.com/tobilg/duckd...github.comGitHub - tobilg/duckdb_featureserv: A lightweight RESTful geospatial feature server for DuckDB with duckdb-spatial supportA lightweight RESTful geospatial feature server for DuckDB with duckdb-spatial support - tobilg/duckdb_featureserv 041
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 06/08/2025kartproject.org #vcs #geospatialkartproject.orgKartDistributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data. 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 03/08/2025#ai #small #models www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...turing.ac.ukWhy we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AILean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments 001
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 24/07/2025@prefix.dev awesome to see dependency overrides merged github.com/prefix-dev/p...github.comfeat: pypi-options.dependency-overrides by HernandoR · Pull Request #3948 · prefix-dev/pixiadd dependency-overrides for overriding. only updated manifest for now related #3917 #3890 100
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 20/07/2025Together with www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-cul... I have created a template for making #LLMs (from different vendors and even self hosted ones) easily accessible to researchers - including advanced document RAG with #docling. github.com/complexity-s...github.comGitHub - complexity-science-hub/llm-in-a-box-template: Template to use genai for chatting and via api to accelerate researchTemplate to use genai for chatting and via api to accelerate research - complexity-science-hub/llm-in-a-box-template 111
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 12/07/2025#fern #hacker #bears #apt www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfI...youtube.comThe Hunt for the World's Most Dangerous HackersYouTube video by fern 020
Reposted by Georg HeilerMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 07/07/2025People say “your imagination is the limit” to mean the possibilities are limitless, but I believe that for many people the phrase is more literally true: they really are limited by a lack of imagination more than anything else 2241
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 05/07/2025#state of #cyber for #germany www.heise.de/news/Bundesr... quite sad to read that emergency power supplies are not there for a large quantity of the data centersheise.deSogar Notstrom fehlt: Schlechte Sicherheitstandards in Rechenzentren des BundesEin Bericht des Bundesrechnungshofs wirft kein gutes Licht auf die Sicherheit der IT des Bundes. Nur ein Bruchteil der Rechenzentren erreiche Mindeststandards. 000
Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · 24/06/2025nice to see DE tooling adapted in other verticals - github.com/michimussato... here for visualization rendering 010