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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 09/05/2026

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 29/04/2026

I'm speaking today at www.openxdata.ai You can watch my talk online.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 26/04/2026

Weekend project . Designed and assembled in California.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 10/04/2026

Thank you for letting me keynote day 2 of the Iceberg summit. I hope you all enjoyed it!

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 10/04/2026

And that’s a wrap! Thank you for a great Iceberg Summit! @thedanicafine.bsky.social, Matt and everyone involved in the organization.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 29/12/2025

I always dip the fries in the tartar sauce with my fish and chips.

Pulp fiction quote: in holland they put mayonnaise on French fries. Damn!

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 12/11/2025

Netflix: "We capture over a trillion events a day." Datadog: www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee....

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 03/11/2025

Experimenting with the laser cutter to make 3d objects.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 25/10/2025

Great time seeing Garbage at the Warfield tonight.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 20/10/2025

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 19/10/2025

First attempt at making prints with the laser cutter. I don’t know what I’m doing but happy to have made something.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 17/10/2025

Didn’t turn out too well for him.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 17/10/2025

And then he said: « Bring me to your leader! »

A bunch of carrots. One looks like it has arms.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 01/10/2025

"Why Datadog Chose Airflow 3: Multi-Tenancy, Observability, and the Future of Event-Driven Workflows" Zach and I will be talking about how Datadog adopted Airflow 3 at the Airflow summit next week. Come say hi! airflowsummit.org/sessions/202...

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 12/09/2025

Catching up in person at the Community over Code conference. Nice to see you all!

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 29/06/2025

Just strolling in Paris on a summer night. What prevents you from looking like this?

The Olympic flame from the 2024 Paris Olympics

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

Animated adaptation of the three musketeers. (They are dogs)

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 24/04/2025

I took a picture of the main amphitheater during the break. It’s not going to be intimidating at all to give the keynote from there tomorrow Morning.

The amphitheater at the Scottish rite center in Oakland from the perspective of the pulpit.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 22/04/2025

I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote at DataCouncil on Thursday. I hope you’ll enjoy my talk as much as I had fun iterating on the slides and on how to tell a good story. See you there. It’s an amazing venue!

The Scottish rite center main amphitheater

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 11/04/2025

The Datadog delegation at the Iceberg Summit.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 10/04/2025

We got the band back together for one night.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 09/04/2025

Hanging out with the local celebrity at the Iceberg summit.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 08/04/2025

I'm looking forward to see you in person at the Iceberg summit in SF tomorrow. I'll be speaking about the evolution of data storage from Hadoop to Iceberg and how we're witnessing the Advent of The Open Data Lake. www.icebergsummit2025.com

astronauts in space meme:
- Wait, it's all blob storage?
- Always has been

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 01/04/2025

The freezer god made an appearance this morning. Let’s praise them as they blessed us with powder. ⛷️

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 13/03/2025

Honestly you should join Datadog if only for the stickers.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 06/03/2025

I am full on in a 90s retro phase.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 06/03/2025

It was great to catch up for lunch with the oleander team. Great things are in store to bring observability to your AI pipelines leveraging @openlineage.bsky.social

Selfie with Willy and Peter, the founders of oleander

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 04/03/2025

Blue Diode laser cutters don’t cut transparent acrylic or even opaque blue acrylic so I had to make something red. Top layer is wood.

Laser cut rose on the wall. Bottom layer is shiny red acrylic and top layer is wood.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 18/02/2025

"Changing something will often impact other teams whether we are aware of it or not. Giving agency to the people who are going to be accountable for executing on those decisions, introduces the expectation to consider the impact of those decisions on other teams." sympathetic.ink/2025/02/13/B...

With great power comes great responsibility

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 17/02/2025

Laser cutter project. 3D map of Kirkwood CA. V1 on the left, v2 on the right

Two layered maps of Kirkwood made from plywood with a laser cutter. Left the first version. Right the lates one adding lifts and woods

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 17/02/2025

I’ve engraved a few coasters for our mountain home. Should I open an Etsy shop?

Two laser engraved coasters.
Right: experts only, skull and crossbones
Left: beginners welcome, bunny head and crossbones

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 14/02/2025

"As an org grows, complexity increases to a point when nobody can have a clear picture of how things works. Every time you change something, you break something. That incentivizes adding more to the pile of increasing complexity" Bottom up Architecture: sympathetic.ink/2025/02/13/B...

two buttons meme:
left button: "modify existing code and break something"
right button: "duplicate and increase complexity"

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 13/02/2025

Lately, I've been thinking about the topic of architecture in a bottom up culture. So I decided to write down some thoughts. sympathetic.ink/2025/02/13/B...

The Architect form the matrix: those mistakes have been made before.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 21/12/2024

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 01/12/2024

Age yourself with your first computer.

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 20/11/2024

Time to show off your laptop stickers!

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Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net · 17/11/2024

Sorry for the link to the other site: x.com/dickc/status...

DickC tweet: “First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.”

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