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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 18h

Shorts are created using Hyperframes and Voicebox from a single markdown file per episode. Any features you would like to hear about in the future?

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 18h

PSA: Started a youtube channel called UnderstandingSearch Currently I am releasing daily 30s videos about random Elasticsearch features, first 30 episodes are out already. www.youtube.com/channel/UCtu...

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Understanding Search

A small channel to teach you about search & information retrieval.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Luxir - a new search engine From the inventor of Solr, written in C++, not clustered for now, uses gRPC, supports streaming import, vector search & hybrid search. Lots of similar terminology with Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch, so reading the docs will be quite easy. luxir.org

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Luxir

Full-spectrum search, built to be the fastest. Luxir is an open source search engine with full-text, vector, and faceted search plus analytics in one request, native code that gets more from every…

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished: Architecting Agentic Solutions with Claude Should help with the first claude certification, however was released 6 months ago, not sure, how up-to-date it is with regards to that. Covers the most high level getting started parts, but not much more.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming Interesting post, showing a 10x cost reduction, while maintaining the required feature set for their use-case. The Kafka protocol has become a redis like grail of compatibility. blog.bitdrift.io/post/blob-st...

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Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming - bitdrift Blog

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The videos of Haystack Europe 2026 are already uploaded. I haven't dug into them yet. Any recommendations or must watch ones? The one about sparse encoders I will watch for sure. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Haystack Europe 2026

Haystack Europe 2026 took place on September 15 & 16 at TUECHTIG in Berlin. It was jointly organised by OpenSource Connections and Plain Schwarz.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fastlogging - Fast logging module written in Rust Integrates with python, C, C++, Go, Java & C#. I have not really understood the benchmarks against log4j/log4j2, so I am not sure it's really faster. github.com/brmmm3/fastl...

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GitHub - brmmm3/fastlogging-rs: Fast logging module written in Rust

Fast logging module written in Rust. Contribute to brmmm3/fastlogging-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I am spending too much time on the couch right now, I watched the Java documentary. Great to see many known faces who have been strong in the Java community for years. And if you look closely at 1:05:54 you will also spot an Elastic logo 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS...

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The Java Story | The Official Documentary

From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, Java's journey is one of radical…

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Encoding in Apache Parquet Now part of the parquet format. Great to see that there is also an implementation status page, so. you can check each library for its status regarding newer features. parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/09...

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ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Encoding in Apache Parquet

A technical overview of ALP's design, performance, and adoption across the Apache Parquet ecosystem.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ZGC improvements continue until big users adapt JEP 546 shows adaptive heap sizing, JEP 545 is about faster startup and warmup with ZGC. Good to see so many ongoing improvements. openjdk.org/jeps/546

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https://openjdk.org/jeps/546

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lakebase: Serverless Postgres over Open Lake Storage "supports in-place vertical scaling of CPU, memory, and disk without VM restart." The NeonVM autoscaling parts are interesting, with the acquisition open development has stopped. www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/...

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Archify - technical diagrams from plain english Another LLM to diagram tool, this time creating fully self sustained HTML, including motion for step-by-step explanations. tt-a1i.github.io/archify/

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Archify — Technical Diagrams from Plain English

Describe your system in chat. Archify generates a polished, explorable HTML diagram with semantic focus, dark/light themes, motion, and ultra-crisp export.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

eraser-diagrams - JSON based diagramming JSON for structure, CSS for formatting, so not really human-readable. I think I'd go with DSL as diagram for now, but let's see how things change or if this is the way to go for more fancy presentations. github.com/eraserlabs/e...

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GitHub - eraserlabs/eraser-diagrams

Contribute to eraserlabs/eraser-diagrams development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Noone is lagging behind cause everyone is still in testing mode. I hope there will be a point in time when we talk about other topics again. Not even k8s can beat the AI hype right now 😂 Looking forward to unconf next month. unkonf.de/de

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unKonf 2026

Dein Barcamp für Web- und Softwareentwicklung

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Went to devcamp unconference/barcamp last week in Düsseldorf. Almost forgot how refreshing ad-hoc agendas are. You may have guessed the core topic. It was like 90% AI, everyone still figuring out how to use it best, from models to tools to harnesses to working with legacy code.

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unKonf 2026

Dein Barcamp für Web- und Softwareentwicklung

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dashdown - Use Markdown & SQL to create dashboards Uses tailwind, allows to create own components, realtime updates, has a dozen connectors. Used CSV solar data to try. Seems that evidence now has cloud lock-in, so that someone else created an open source alternative in python. dashdown.ai

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Built on Object Storage Very interesting blog post about a WAL on S3, including checksumming using setsum. www.trychroma.com/engineering/...

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wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Build on Object Storage

wal3, Chroma's write-ahead log, combining a 30-year-old lock-free algorithm with S3's newest conditional writes feature.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 compression is also one of those topics (like information retrieval) where folks always it cannot get better, but somehow smart people always have new ideas. github.com/iczelia/bzip3

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GitHub - iczelia/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.

A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. - iczelia/bzip3

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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 15/09/2026

It's interesting to see that AI agents being "dumb humans" requires to pay more attention to user experience, which ultimately also benefits humans. This article on the new Elastic CLI explains this nicely. www.elastic.co/search-labs/...

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Elastic CLI: One command for every API, built for agents

Elastic CLI gives every Elasticsearch, Kibana and Cloud API one shape: JSON in and out, schema validation, and allow lists an AI agent can't bypass.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sloc Cloc and Code - Did I just get Buster Scrugged? Improving scc to get back the performance crown. I like the fact how Ben just counted own syscalls without looking at the other implementation to fix performance. boyter.org/posts/did-i-...

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Sloc Cloc and Code - Did I just get Buster Scrugged?

Treat Faster Tools as a Profile, Not an Insult I recently had this gracious github issue raised against scc related to another code counter mezura which has some impressive performance claims. …

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

node.js now has a built-in benchmark module after adding a built-in test runner some years ago. Nice to see such functionality work without needing any dependencies. www.jasnell.me/posts/a-node...

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node:bench

An experimental node:bench module with a --bench CLI runner

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished: Designing Data intensive applications, 2nd edition Had this on my desk for some time, finally read it. 2nd edition came out nine years after the first & includes some cloud specific updates. Very well spent time, lots of follow up links. Recommendation for any backend developer.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Apache Lucene recently added an AI policy to their source TLDR; Use it for code, but not for communication. Do not copy & paste responses. github.com/apache/lucen...

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lucene/AI_POLICY.md at main · apache/lucene

Apache Lucene open-source search software. Contribute to apache/lucene development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'll be at devconf barcamp this weekend in Düsseldorf - finally at a barcamp again! If you're also attending, give me a ping. Looking forward to meet everyone. Been collecting a couple of nice topics! devconf.nrw

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DevConf.NRW

Die Entwicklerkonferenz für NRW

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

AeroSpace- an i3 like tiling window manager for osx Supports workspaces, vim shortcuts for window movements. i3 never worked for me under Linux so I’ll probably stick with highly customized Hammerspoon setup… github.com/nikitabobko/...

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GitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

PicoMQ - an object storage based message queue Uses sqlite or Postgres for metadata, Kafka compatible protocol and HTTP. Written in Rust. picomq.com

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PicoMQ

PicoMQ is durable, real-time streams over HTTP, built on S3-compatible object storage.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs This one is in Go, derived from python. There is also a java package. Allows to specify an own alphabet as well. github.com/lithammer/sh...

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GitHub - lithammer/shortuuid: A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs

A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs - lithammer/shortuuid

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Java 27 features Nice post, didn't know that G1 was now the default everywhere now. Also talks about compact object headers, JFR redaction and preview features. aboullaite.me/java-27-feat...

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Java 27: compact headers, JFR redaction & post-quantum TLS

A JEP-by-JEP tour of JDK 27, tested on the early-access build: compact object headers by default, G1 everywhere, JFR secret redaction and post-quantum TLS.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

pf4j - plugin framework for Java Allows to add plug-in capabilities to your Java app. Uses a new classloader for every plugin. Has been around for a long time but I never stumbled over it pf4j.org

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PF4J

PF4J site repository

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How Elasticsearch's batched query phase improves search performance at scale Why fan out to every shard in a cluster, when you can just fan out to every node and already do partial reductions there? www.elastic.co/search-labs/...

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Elasticsearch batched query phase: Improve search performance

The Elasticsearch batched query phase can cut search execution time in half by reducing transport overhead and distributing reduction work across the cluster.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our backup strategy when the little one is ill and bored are small Le… err I meant bricks Quick to hand out, keeps her busy for a bit. This one here is actually quite a cool series. Unfortunately it’s finished now and we have to look for new and more complex ones, hints appreciated :-)

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hackernews: "Google/Microsoft would have been so much better/worse as buyers, because anecdotal XYZ" Unrelated note: I had no idea that slashdot still exists.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

AWS buying DuckLabs was creating interesting reactions on different social media. LinkedIn: "Let me explain in my podcast of why this is good news" Mastodon: "Goodbye DuckDB open source, one of the few good data engineering tools will die".

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

jvmguard - monitors JVMs in production Low overhead. It records transactions and telemetries. Comes with REST & MCP server for management. github.com/jvmguard/jvm...

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GitHub - jvmguard/jvmguard: Automatic production profiling for JVMs

Automatic production profiling for JVMs. Contribute to jvmguard/jvmguard development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rust Coreutils: Rebuilding Unix Foundations in a Modern Language Interesting information on testing approach, and making sure everythng stays backwards compatible, plus adding useful features like progress monitoring for long running copy/move operations. arxiv.org/html/2608.07...

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Rust Coreutils: Rebuilding Unix Foundations in a Modern Language

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How we tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug Nice read that even one of the most used software packages in the world can still have bugs if a rarely called code path/feature combination is used

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How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug

Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks, nice post and informative! Out of curiosity: Would the afterburner module of jackson help in your performance tests or not?

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