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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...

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 29/06/2026

🌄 Interesting Links in the Data & AI World: June 2026 AI arguments, Kafka krunching (sorry), Fantastic Flink, Eye-catching Iceberg…… I've been sat in the sun too long. 🔗 rmoff.net/2026/06/29/i...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 25/06/2026

Another zinger from the Posthog team: Liam Graham - All social media metrics are bad posthog.com/blog/social-...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 24/06/2026

never mind the em-dash. if I see this in a blog post, i know who wrote it for you. and I don't have positive thoughts about it. (see also writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti...)

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 24/06/2026

Arnold Wakim - How DataDog migrated a live routing system using AI-assisted refactoring www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 24/06/2026

Next stop: 512! :-D Subscribe: interestinglinks.substack.com

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 19/06/2026

Nerd achievement unlocked - register a domain in a fit of enthusiasm, but never quite get round to building a site for it.

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 18/06/2026

Guess what? Even the cool kids know that sometimes you don't reinvent the wheel, you just model your data properly :) > the definition of active user depends on which dimensions you anchor to. How Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude claude.com/blog/how-ant...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 10/06/2026

Grab Engineering - Enhancing Flink deployment with shadow testing engineering.grab.com/enchancing-f...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 09/06/2026

The good news? Claude figured out the problem and fixed it and now it's working again :) If you're curious how good (or bad) Claude does, the code is here: github.com/rmoff/kafka-.... This is 100% 'vibe' coded (I directed it, but literally don't know Java; the code is all Claude's fault/credit).

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 06/06/2026

🏃‍♂️ www.strava.com/activities/1...

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 05/06/2026

Vibe coded a connector for Kafka Connect. What could possibly go wrong? Oh. (counterpoint: in the case of this bug, I'm pretty sure a human could have fk'd it up the same way Claude did TBH)