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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How do engineering managers deal with stress?

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New blog post - I explored Linux's non-blocking I/O and eventually make my way into epoll etc. Feedback welcome.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 03/05/2026

This paper finds that Rust on an microcontroller costs you about 10% extra flash space, actually saves you a bunch of RAM, and takes no extra time to deliver (as compared to C). Seems about right - especially as the C version needed a heap and the Rust version did not. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25679

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday which features internships, interesting jobs in software engineering, and funding news in software infrastructure. Here are all new tracked internships at Replit, Atomic Semi, SiFive, etc. No subscription needed, go do interesting things!

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I started a software research company notes.eatonphil.com/2026-02-25-i...

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026

"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If you've run seaweedfs, versity, juicefs, beegfs, or rustfs—permissively-licensed s3-compatible storage systems— and are open to chatting about your experience, I'd like to chat with you for The Consensus.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hiring in the US 🇺🇸 If you are into #DistributedSystems, #Databases, #Kubernetes, then I'm hiring for #ClickHouse Cloud AutoScaling Team! Things we do: 📊 Scaling Algorithms, 🚀 Performance, ⚙️ Reliability 👥Staff / Principals (open to Seniors) DM or Reply here!

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev · 02/10/2025

LLMs might teach us something about discourse. Imagine if it was socially acceptable within an argument or discussion to pause and say "Thinking longer for a better answer"

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format: → Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu... → CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa... → SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

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GitHub - facebookincubator/nimble: New file format for storage of large columnar datasets.

New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. - facebookincubator/nimble

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Chris @chris.blue · 24/06/2025

Is anyone working on a K8s alternative? Kinda curious.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Since I spent the entire first half of the day going over at least a 150+ CVs, I'll just mention a few Dos and Don't. These aren't cardinal rules (I also make mistakes). But here we go: 1. Proof of work. Done similar work? I'll likely trust you to ramp up quickly

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is still a thing. I'm hiring 2 engineers. DM me or Email your CV at manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Are there Senior/Staff+ Engineers on my timeline who want to work on the intersection of #Databases, #Caches, #Infra, Kubernetes/Operators and #Scaling #Algorithms (think time series, predictive scaling etc)? If so, please drop me a DM. Our small but mighty team at ClickHouse is growing!

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

In #London this week to attend KubeCon. My colleague Jayme Bird and I will be doing a talk about a year long dtatefulset orchestration migration in ClickHouse cloud. Do attend the talk if you are interested in operators, durable execution or databases. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Kubecon2025

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 11/03/2025

Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there...

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Learning German is more difficult than learning C++.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Reading the FoundationDB Paper today at the work #papers group. Such a great read.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Whoever said Go is a minimal language is a liar.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

First NYC Systems talks of 2025 tonight! See you there!

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What resources would you recommend to learn C++ in 2025?

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Berlin Systems Group berlinsystems.xyz will host our 5th meetup this evening. Come Join us to talk about Apache Iceberg and LLVM. If you are into Compilers, Distributed Systems, Databases, Formal Verifications, Programming Languages etc, this is the place for you.

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Berlin Systems

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Super excited to announce that my talk "Dancing with the Pods: Live migration of a database fleet while serving millions of queries" was accepted for KubeCon 2025 London. #kubecon #kubernetes #clickhouse

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When you send someone a linkedin request without a note etc, what is your expectation? Not judging, just curious. I’m guilty of doing the same and would like to understand this.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Finished Stormlight Archive Book 5 (Wind and Truth) by Brandon Sanderson. I need more Stormlight content in my life so I've spent the last few days grabbing all I can. On towards Dawnshard, which is a Novella that I somehow missed. #booksky

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Rewrite it in Rust is still a thing in 2025:https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I appreciate all the hip-hop references.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

In 2025 I want to meet less talkers and more builders.

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Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A bit late, but finally published my collection of good papers, blogs, videos (and one book). So we can all enjoy reading over the holidays and start 2025 inspired. open.substack.com/pub/hackings...

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What every SaaS developer should read on vacation - 2024 Edition

The annual round-up of long-ish papers and videos. Start the new year with new knowledge and inspiration.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Insane is a good word to describe it. A freaking horror show that I can’t stop watching.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Some things are more fun than databases tbh.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Being a non European in Europe during Christmas can be very lonely.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Trying out Ghostty. First impressions - Kitty has better rendering and feels much more "stable". So does WezTerm. I use both as daily drivers.

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izzymiller.bsky.social @izzymiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i was in the data warehouse the other night, in the restricted section...

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

How popular is StackOverflow these days?

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The song I didn't know I needed in my life.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

intermittently fasting when i am asleep and unable to eat

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Alexey's @clickhouse.com talk here is hilariously off-the-chain. I highly recommend watching it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmVx... You can hear me yelling at him from the audience at 1:09, 2:40, and 7:33.

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My Database Can Do This by Alexey Milovidov (DBDBD 2024)

YouTube video by DSDSD - Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If JSON databases are a thing, why aren't YAML databases?!? Think about it.

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v @handle.invalid · 29/11/2024

www.andrescn.me/arti...

Imperfectionism means that your life is finite, you won’t be able to do everything you want. You won’t read all the books or know everything about a subject. Ironically, that same thought means you can learn something, maybe a book or two that you find interesting. You won’t learn everything but you can start somewhere.

Cultivating joy and interest means pulling a thread of some topic you’re curious about. Then taking a step towards it. Once you’re a few steps in, you learn more about the subject. Maybe you want to learn how to program, you build a small Tetris app, then you explore how to use CSS and HTML. Slowly you build confidence in a narrow domain. That confidence can trickle down to other areas.

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What's a good sound-bar to pair with an OLED for movies/gaming? Also in the market for a TV unit tbh. :)

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Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What are folks buying during Black Friday week?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/11/2024

Some notes on the new AWS S3 conditional write feature where you can use an if-match header to avoid over-writing an object if it's been changed since you last read it simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/...

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Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes

> Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents …

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stellz @piss.beauty · 25/11/2024

bait aside this is what i mean - not dying, but struggling to be reborn at the very least

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The two factions of C++

The dream of a single dialect-free C++ has probably been dead for many years, anyway.

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