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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

So if you have the depth + breadth, DM me.

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

But that's just an example. The pattern I've usually seen is that DB developers can have *depth* in one area of expertise (think Storage, Query Processing, Consensus etc). But for building a prod DB offering, depth isn't enough. You need significant breadth.

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

Of course, they might know a lot about Cloud Infrastructure -> all the way from AWS primitives down to what the hardware can support.

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

Then there are outstanding applications - people who've got both the breadth and the depth. They can: Start from a log line -> Think about DB operations in K8s -> Reason the Kernel's allocation behavior -> Impact on the DB's own memory allocation -> Find a fix.

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

Can't hire a pure Infra person who cannot write code. Can't hire a pure backend person who doesn't do infra - because usually there is a separate team to manage it for them. Also can't hire a SQL expert who opens Snowflake and writes queries all day. Overlap in ^ puts you ahead of the curve

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

If you're primarily a DevOps Engineer or an SRE, for many CVs, I don't even know if this person can code or not. Usually, there is nothing in the CV that indicates application / backend development skills. So can you build production grade systems?

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

Conversely, if you're a k8s expert, but know nothing about the nuances of what it takes to manage databases, you will have an interesting learning curve ahead. k8s itself is a vast ecosystem though, so the ability to deep dive into k8s control loops puts you ahead of the curve.

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

3. Operationally, DBAs != Cloud Native Database Infra Devs. If you are used to database tuning to support production workloads in a few companies, you're off to a great start. But can I trust you to build similar things on top of k8s?

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

2. User != Operator != Developer, but the lines do get blurred. The best DB developer I know is also the best user of said DB. Operators don't have to be expert devs, but must be willing to get their hands dirty.

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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 · 18/02/2025

TBH as much as I love some of them, many cppcon talks are quite boring.

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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 · 18/01/2025

I never know anyone at these events.

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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

Their best point is frankly the excitement. They’re spot on with that.

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

Journey Before Destination 😊

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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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