Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Once you've experienced a True Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) engine, recomputing everything from scratch sounds absolutely absurd. Too slow and too expensive to justify. We set up a little match of our own: Databricks Incrementally Materialized Views vs. Feldera. 121
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Right now, somewhere, a data engineer is getting another message from stakeholders: “Why is the Gold layer late?” It is a familiar reminder that the traditional medallion architecture was not built for real-time freshness. It is being held back by legacy batch processing. 121
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Databricks Data + AI Summit is the one place where everyone in the room knows the medallion architecture intimately, and nobody talks about what it actually costs you to keep it fresh. 121
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 31/03/2026March was a month of depth. We went deep on engine performance, observability, and reliability. Read the full newsletter here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-...linkedin.comMarch Edition 2026March was a month of depth, we went deep on engine performance, observability, and reliability. Here’s what shipped. 041
Reposted by Lalith Sureshrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/03/2026one thing i appreciate about Apple's commitment to privacy is the absolute ironclad secrecy with which they treat the questions "what shows are on AppleTV" and "when do the seasons start" 1191192
Reposted by Lalith SureshAlex Zenla 🏳️⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 23/02/2026Xooglerware: a genre of software built by former Googlers. Key traits: Uses Bazel & protobuf (but strangely most protobuf v2), written in either Go or Java, uses 17TB of memory, burns three forests due to a clever algorithm, requires you to know the author as a friend to one-shot compilation 412421
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Making Copilot code review the PR replacing it with Claude Code review is kind of macabre. github.com/feldera/feld...github.com[ci] switch to claude code review by gz · Pull Request #5574 · feldera/feldera 010
Reposted by Lalith SureshBen Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Many of the #rust floating-point math functions have a note: "The precision of this function is non-deterministic. This means it varies by platform, Rust version, and can even differ within the same execution from one invocation to the next." When would results vary between invocations? #rustlang 452
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If you're a recent PhD graduate and have published in systems venues (SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, etc), let me know and I'll nominate you for PC invites when I get them. I regret that I'm unable to carve out time to be on PCs these days. It was one of my favorite parts of being a researcher. 120
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Introducing Feldera Health 🩺 A lightweight health monitoring solution built directly into Feldera. See the real-time status of your compiler, API server, and runner at a glance. ✅ Available today on try.feldera.com and Enterprise Feldera 📝 Detailed technical blog coming soon 021
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Incremental Updates - January 2026 edition is here! 🚀 This edition covers: - Product updates: adaptive join rebalancing, GC for ASOF joins and more - New blogs: deep dive into our profiler, constant folding in Calcite, and a look back at our progress in 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/januar...linkedin.comJanuary Edition 2026The past many months have been busy for us at Feldera. We continue to ship compounding improvements for our customers when it comes to usability, performance and efficiency. 021
Reposted by Lalith SureshMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war 199222294679
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026This is how @benpfaff.bsky.social is kicking off the New Year! 🚀github.comInitial support for multihost pipelines by blp · Pull Request #5358 · feldera/feldera 031
Reposted by Lalith SureshGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/01/2025pretending I am using the force to open the automatic doors at the grocery store is the only joy I have left 541783229
Reposted by Lalith Sureshthe hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Reporter: our story about the huge sewage spill in the middle of the city is ready to go Bari Weiss: no, wait. I want to interview the sewage first 210011
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 19/12/20252025: 📦 166 unique releases, 1,162 changes, avg. new release every 2.4 days 📊 10x cost reduction for users, hours old insights into sub-second latency ⚡ 70-node Spark clusters -> single digit Feldera instances 2026: Make incremental compute inevitable Full story: www.feldera.com/blog/feldera...feldera.comFeldera in 2025: Building the Future of Incremental ComputeFeldera's 2025 year in review: comprehensive SQL support, state-of-the-art infrastructure, advanced connectors, and the future of real-time analytics. 162
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 11/12/2025You can’t optimize what you can’t profile. Which operators are a bottleneck? Are there skewed joins? Why is storage use spiking? Our engineering team used to spend hours trying to answer these questions when performance problems would show up in the wild. 111
Reposted by Lalith SureshWorm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 23/08/2025MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry 2363851582
Reposted by Lalith SureshBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations 1223426436
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 03/12/2025They’re all available today. Now go build something fast. 🏎️ 021
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Rust Compilation can be slow. Backfills can take days. And no one likes to wait. ⏳ We’ve recently shipped features that will get you deploying faster and scaling more efficiently: - Parallel Compilation - Fast Backfill - Backfill Avoidance 131
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Has anyone managed to run perf on EKS without running the pods with full privileges? (e.g., with only CAP_PERFMON) 130
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Introducing the iCheeseGrater (seriously why is this the first image) 030
Reposted by Lalith SureshTamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 05/11/2025My sympathies are with every South Asian child that now has to hear their parents tell them they need to be a "doctor, lawyer, or mayor of New York" 766855
Reposted by Lalith SureshP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/11/2025One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed 29908108
Reposted by Lalith SureshSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results. 702403506299
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 29/10/2025It's a good sign these days when 99.9% of customer support questions can be traced to Karpenter wrecking the customer's infra. 010
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Trying to pick a game to play and this is one of claude's suggestions. 240
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025We're growing! We're working with some awesome enterprise customers with tonnes of data and are trying to scale the team. We're hiring for many high-leverage roles, including sw-eng / sre, solution engineering, and GTM roles. Fully remote team. DM me if you have any questions!jobs.ashbyhq.comFeldera JobsFeldera Jobs 1122
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I'm going to need wrist surgery after Silksong. Worth it tho. 010
Reposted by Lalith Sureshqntm @qntm.org · 07/09/2025ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file 392325506
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025We're hiring for two very high-leverage, high-learning roles at Feldera! If you're deeply technical and love seeing customers succeed using a revolutionary compute platform, we'd love to have you on the team 🚀 053
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025100%-ed Shinobi AOV over the weekend, and ended it with a hitless take down of shadow master. 😎 020
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Accidentally pre-ordered a game 2hrs before availability, thinking it was out already. First ever, sigh. 020
Reposted by Lalith SureshBen Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Copilot sure likes to make stupid and useless comments. 021
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 27/08/2025🚀 We’re hiring an engineer to push Feldera’s automated testing platforms to the limit! If you get excited about breaking real-world data-intensive systems, chaos testing, fault injection, differential testing and obsessing over performance, this job is for you. jobs.ashbyhq.com/feldera/709c...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 043
Reposted by Lalith SureshGerd Zellweger @zgerd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Slack app to round robin pick a user from a channel? That'd be 5 USD/user/month pls 🤯 011
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 20/08/2025"This is the true power of incremental compute. By only needing compute resources proportional to the size of the change, instead of the size of the whole dataset, businesses can dramatically slash compute spend for their analytics." 👇 www.feldera.com/blog/how-fel...feldera.comHow Feldera Customers Slash Cloud Spend (10x and beyond)By only needing compute resources proportional to the size of the change, instead of the size of the whole dataset, businesses can dramatically slash compute spend for their analytics. 062
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025A Sekiro anime! (how are they going to show the 10-20 attempts to fight a boss tho) 010
Reposted by Lalith SureshBen Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 20/08/2025At @feldera.bsky.social I've been doing a lot of performance work. I needed an easy way to watch the Prometheus metrics for a pipeline, so I wrote a simple tool for the Feldera CLI that shows the pipeline metrics. Here's the progress of a pipeline that runs in about 30 seconds. 263
Reposted by Lalith SureshFeldera @feldera.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you've written even the most basic compute program, you've likely already written programs that "integrate". Integration is central to Feldera and its underlying theory of incremental compute. It is also all around us in the real world! 👇feldera.comStream IntegrationIn this blog post we informally introduce one core streaming operation: integration. We show that integration is a simple, useful, and fundamental stream processing primitive, which is used not only… 051
Reposted by Lalith SureshPhilippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting): www.feldera.com/blog/correct...feldera.comCorrectness at FelderaIn this blog post, we briefly describe our efforts and development processes that ensure Feldera's engine is correct. 061
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 12/08/2025PRO TIP: the least you can do when you apply for a job is remove the AI prompts from your cover letter copy pasta. 020
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Sitting down to game has looked like this for the last 2 months: * Check out the PSN store * Look at endless wall of slop * Lament the lack of good games * Not game. (Excited for Shinobi AOV end of this month though) 010