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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 8h
You won't _beleaf_ 🍂 what time it is! It's time for Interesting Links in the Data & AI World: September 2026! 🎉 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/09/29/i...
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Interesting links - September 2026
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 29/09/2026
This. Every word, of this. @charity.wtf - Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob charity.wtf/p/confession...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 22/09/2026
i endorse this rant zachholman.com/posts/llm-wr...
zachholman.com
As Someone Who Has Written This Blog Post,
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 21/09/2026
all my socials rn
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 21/09/2026
ah yes. very droll sir.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17/09/2026
Addressing User Frustration
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 15/09/2026
well shit, we knew minio was dead, and here's another nail in the coffin. at least it gives me chance to give a self-serving shill for an article i wrote earlier this year about MinIO alternatives ;) rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 11/09/2026
🌟 New blog post from Gustavo de Morais: Flink SQL Evolution: Handling Custom CDC with FROM_CHANGELOG and TO_CHANGELOG developer.confluent.io/blog/flink-s...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 09/09/2026
My colleague Lorenzo Nicora has just published two excellent posts all about Flink watermarks, check them out! Absolutely Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Watermarks in Apache Flink - Part 1: Apache Flink developer.confluent.io/blog/all-abo... (1/2)
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 01/09/2026
In case you missed it: August's set of Interesting Links in Data & AI 👇🏻 rmoff.net/2026/08/20/i... Readers so far liking a pretty representative set of the kind of subjects covered :)
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 21/08/2026
Here are the Interesting Links in the Data & AI world for August (slightly early this month in order to fit around my 🏕️ holiday, since you ask). It's slightly shorter than usual, but the quality is still 🥇. 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/08/20/i...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 21/08/2026
I do like it when blog posts have a punny heading 😁
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 20/08/2026
Up & to the right! Is how the audience for my monthly newsletter "Interesting links in Data & AI" is going :) This month's will be shorter because of holidays (en-us: vacation), but there's still time for YOU to do two things: (1/2)
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 12/08/2026
Warner Music Group - Why We Migrated From Cassandra to PostgreSQL RDS tech.wmg.com/rethinking-n...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 11/08/2026
Datadog - How we measure data completeness at scale www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 10/08/2026
Gunnar Morling - A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet developer.confluent.io/blog/fast-pa...
developer.confluent.io
A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet
How Hardwood detects fixed-length lists in Parquet's encoded definition and repetition levels, bypassing Dremel reconstruction for a 1.1×–3.9× parse speed-up.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 07/08/2026
Mark Callaghan - Orasort (Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort) smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/comm...
smalldatum.blogspot.com
Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort
The patent expired for US7680791B2 . I invented this while at Oracle and it landed in 10gR2  with claims of ~5X better performance vs the pr...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 06/08/2026
Instant Schema Changes in Airtable’s New Database medium.com/airtable-eng...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 05/08/2026
Swizec Teller - How to be useful as a software architect swizec.com/blog/how-to-...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 04/08/2026
Addy Osmani - The Agent-Era Career addyosmani.com/blog/career-...
addyosmani.com
The Agent-Era Career
AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 03/08/2026
How Rapport Labs Adopted StarRocks for Ad Performance Data medium.com/starrocks-en...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 03/08/2026
ICYMI: Interesting links in Data & AI for July 2026: rmoff.net/2026/07/29/i...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 31/07/2026
antirez - The real AI risk is inside the labs antirez.com/news/172
antirez.com
The real AI risk is inside the labs - <antirez>
The real AI risk is inside the labs
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 30/07/2026
Qi Zhu and Andrew Lamb - Optimizing for Almost Sorted Data: Sort Pushdown in Apache DataFusion datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/07...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 30/07/2026
Interesting links in Data & AI for July 2026: rmoff.net/2026/07/29/i...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 29/07/2026
Aleksandr Birin - How Zalando Migrated a Home-Grown Stateful Event Join at Scale to Apache Flink (and halved their infrastructure cost) engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/0...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 28/07/2026
Kyle Cheung - DuckDB Internals: Why is DuckDB Fast? (Part 2 Vectorized Execution) www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 28/07/2026
I'm preparing this month's Interesting Links newsletter (subscribe here! interestinglinks.substack.com) and so with it rummaging through the grab bag of content that humans and clankers have been creating this month. My first shout out (not in a good way) goes to… (1/2)
interestinglinks.substack.com
Interesting Links in the Data and AI World | rmoff | Substack
A monthly recap of links in and around the worlds of data and AI that I've found interesting. Click to read Interesting Links in the Data and AI World, by rmoff, a Substack publication with hundreds o...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 28/07/2026
Casey Newton - A big week for AI denialism www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...
platformer.news
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 27/07/2026
Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 24/07/2026
Richard Artoul - One Weird Trick to Make Rapid Storage 40x Faster www.warpstream.com/blog/one-wei...
warpstream.com
One Weird Trick to Make Rapid Storage 40x Faster
GCP Rapid Buckets should have made WarpStream faster on GCP, but they didn't, until we found the trick. Here's how we cut P99 file write latency by 3x with a few small, surgical changes.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 24/07/2026
Clanker content wars: The only winning move is not to play rmoff.net/2026/07/24/t...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 23/07/2026
Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale engineering.fb.com/2026/07/01/d...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 23/07/2026
Having clankers churn out content to feed the clankers is a futile game to play. Somewhere out there are real humans wanting to read real content, but being deafened by the roar of shit.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 22/07/2026
Oleh Korniienko - Guide to data tools landscape for developers sinja.io/blog/data-la...
sinja.io
Guide to data tools landscape for developers · OlegWock
Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over…
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 21/07/2026
Keith Lee - How we cut Flink OOMKills by 91.2%: Zombie block cache, phantom CPUs (and some bonus AI Learnings) developer.confluent.io/blog/flink-o...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 20/07/2026
@sandonjacobs.bsky.social - Kafka Queues for @Quarkus.io developer.confluent.io/blog/queues-...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17/07/2026
Hey, we launched a new blog :) It's even got an RSS feed! 100% technical content, covering Kafka, Flink, and much more. 👉🏻 developer.confluent.io/blog/
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17/07/2026
Chris Cranford - Oracle Log Mining Simplified in Debezium 3.6 debezium.io/blog/2026/07...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 10/07/2026
Fiore Mario Vitale - Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium debezium.io/blog/2026/07...
debezium.io
Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium
Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture. Start it up, point it at your databases, and your apps can start responding to all of the inserts, updates, and deletes that…
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 09/07/2026
Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale netflixtechblog.com/data-project...
netflixtechblog.com
Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale
By Amer Hesson, Marcelo Mayworm, James Mulcahy, and Brittany Truong
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 08/07/2026
"The LLM grinds everything into the same inherently untrustable confidently-expressed blandness" Dian Fay - What LLMs are Doing to Conference Programs, and How to Use Them Effectively if You're Going to Do It Anyway di.nmfay.com/llms-confere...
di.nmfay.com
what llms are doing to conference programs, and how to use them effectively if you're going to do it anyway
machine-generated submissions aren't just a hypothetical risk—they're a real problem with pivotal consequences
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 07/07/2026
Armin Ronacher - The Coming Loop lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/th...
lucumr.pocoo.org
The Coming Loop
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 06/07/2026
Armin Ronacher - Communities of Not lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/6/com...
lucumr.pocoo.org
Communities of Not
On the strange hostility that grows in communities built around abstinence.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 03/07/2026
How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti...
writethatblog.substack.com
Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts
98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 02/07/2026
ZhongLi Shen - How Trivago Cut Kafka Consumer Deployment Costs by 83% tech.trivago.com/post/2026-06...
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 01/07/2026
How Lyft Governs and Scales Key Data Definitions eng.lyft.com/metric-seman...
eng.lyft.com
Metric Semantic Layer: How Lyft Governs and Scales Key Data Definitions
Written by Rohit Channe and Simran Mirchandani at Lyft.
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 01/07/2026
quite literally, nohello.net :D
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 30/06/2026
Vibe-coded a little widget for my blog, showing the most popular of the Interesting Links each month :) Here are the stats for June's links so far… 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/06/29/i... (h/t to @posthog.com for an awesome free tier that makes this shit dead easy)
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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 30/06/2026
Jack Vanlightly - Raise the ambition threshold jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2026/6/...
jack-vanlightly.com
Raise the ambition threshold — Jack Vanlightly
“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry AI gives us an unprecedented ability to…
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