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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 02/05/2026

Hell yeah @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social I’ve been really curious about what OpenData has been doing with SlateDB. Looking forward to listening to this! youtu.be/IAh3kmo2-9M?...

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Many Databases 1 LSM Engine - OpenData

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you understand the Math behind something, it becomes easier to understand. But understanding Math itself can be difficult, but totally worth it.

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TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 15/04/2026

Assertions vs Types: Design by Contract, Deterministic Simulation Testing, and Safety vs Availability Vol. 3 of TigerStyle with matklad on @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Thanks for having us, KV!

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We’ve reached a point where managing digital cookies burns more calories than you’d gain from eating real ones. Such a pain 😵‍💫

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If I ever design a system badly… I won’t admit.. But there will be signs. - Every software engineer ever.

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

How do LSM trees work? Finally created a light board video. I hope you like it 🙏🏻 LSM Trees: How does it all work? youtu.be/CizxYuq-z6E

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LSM Trees: How does it all work?

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Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Another advantage to designing systems as state machines: automated testing and even verification becomes dramatically easier.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

What is State Machine thinking and how do I use it (practically)? State machine thinking is one of the best ways to build reliable software. The idea is to break down complex systems into discrete states and explicit transitions between them.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What is First principles thinking and how do I use it (practically) ?👇 First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to tackle complex problems. The idea is to break down complex problems into primitive elements and then reassemble the problem from scratch.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Small enough service is a micro-service. Large enough language model is a Large Language Model. Naming is a NP-hard problem.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Here is a sketch of how a solid observability platform built on top of object storage would look like this 👇 And guess what, Parseable is built exactly like that. All the good stuff that makes a system fast, reliable and highly scalable. New episode 🚀 youtu.be/MugLlrf5E_g

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Diskless Kafka? But why? Why is it important for Kafka ecosystem ? How does it compare with existing revolutionary technologies? Blogged a comparison between Diskless Kafka, WarpStream and Confluent Freight. www.geeknarrator.com/blog/diskles...

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

DUPLICATE events and painfully SLOW joins are a real and painful problems in the world of stream processing and realtime analytics. But why there hasn't been a simple, easy and fast solution for these problems that just works with the hassle?

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

BLOGGED 🎉 - Diskless Kafka KIP-1150 Wrote a detailed blog on why I think diskless Kafka is going to be HUGE. Do check it out here: www.geeknarrator.com/blog/diskless-kafka-kip-1150 Thanks Aiven for sponsoring the blog.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There is a lot of innovation happening in the Databases world BUT one area where there is a lot of opportunities is Query optimisers. I recently learnt about query optimisers and the amazing work CMU db group is doing in this space with their new query optimiser “Optd”.

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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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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If someone says “I am a perfectionist”… they are either lying OR mean they are not going to get/let things done on time. The only realistic way is to be above a certain quality bar and keep the progress iterative and incremental. Get things done fast.

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Redpanda @redpanda.com · 21/03/2025

🎵 Sweet dreams are made of C++ 🎵 When something isn't working, sometimes you just need to rebuild it from scratch. That's what our Founding Panda, @emaxerrno.bsky.social, did when building Redpanda 🚀 Want to hear his story? Listen to Alex's chat with @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social in this episode 🎧

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Redpanda - High Performance Streaming Platform for Data Intensive Applications @RedpandaData

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Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks to @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social for having me! This was a fun podcast. 🚀

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Feldera @feldera.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Listen to @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social podcast! @feldera.bsky.social CEO, @lalithsuresh.bsky.social, discusses Feldera's approach to incremental view maintenance and the foundational breakthrough -- DBSP -- that powers it, engine internals, storage, handling late events. youtu.be/GpcIoABwF60?...

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Powering Incremental Compute with Mathematics - Feldera

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/03/2025

Listening to the DuckDB Internals with Mark Raasveldt (@markraasveldt.bsky.social) episode of The Geek Narrator podcast (@thegeeknarrator.bsky.social): www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Ql...

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@duckdb Internals with Mark Raasveldt @duckdb3282

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just imagine writing a mature and massive system like #Kafka from scratch in C++. And on top, challenge yourself to make it 10x faster in tail latencies and way more cost effective.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just imagine writing a mature and massive system like #Kafka from scratch in C++. And on top, challenge yourself to make it 10x faster in tail latencies and way more cost effective.

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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 24/02/2025

In this episode of @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social The GeekNarrator, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl discuss: 🚀 WarpStream architecture. ✅ Kafka ordering guarantees. 🗜️ Buffering + compaction. 💸 WarpStream flexibility + cost efficiency.

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WarpStream: A drop-in replacement for Kafka

In this episode of The GeekNarrator podcast, host Kaivalya Apte interviews Ryan and Richie, the founders of WarpStream. They discuss the architecture, benefi...

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Learn the JVM internals 👇 1) The JVM Internals - Basics (Episode 1) youtu.be/Yg69qM0iZa4 2) JVM Internals: Heaps, Stacks, Program Counters and more youtu.be/MCTTg8VPaBY 3) JVM Internals - The Class file format youtu.be/15sz5yvQ-Po

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The JVM Internals - Basics (Episode 1)

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 10/02/2025

We are focused on high-quality talks and expert speakers. Talks about engineering, not product pitches. Currently looking for speakers and venues that can host >50 people!

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Do one thing with best quality. > Do less things with good quality. > Do many things with subpar quality. > Do nothing. > Nothing.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The JVM internals series - #5 is out.. This episode lays out a good foundation for us to go into the internals of each of the amazing GCs and their tradeoffs. Become a member to access the upcoming internals episode.. Meanwhile watch this video (free access until tomorrow). youtu.be/p1Yamdly0QE

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New episode "Patterns of Distributed Systems" is up now.. Experience based, Actionable insights is what you can expect from this episode. Enjoy: youtu.be/HnyKJq8oR0M Image taken from: martinfowler.com/articles/pat...

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is HUGE! Congratulations to the team.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 25/01/2025

Totally agreed!! I really enjoyed our podcast interview with @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social — thoroughly prepared with informative insights and questions.

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I had a great time talking to Kaivalya Apte about Aurora DSQL on the Geek Narrator podcast. Watch our episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkf... We cover the design of Aurora DSQL, interesting aspects of the design, PostgreSQL, Firecracker, and trade-offs of database systems. A lot in an hour!

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AWS Aurora Distributed SQL internals with Marc Brooker - @amazonwebservices

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today I released the next episode on The GeekNarrator, with @marcbrooker.bsky.social on AWS Aurora DSQL internals. This is filled with amazing insights. Don't miss this one! youtu.be/ONkfXvPSSpc

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AWS Aurora Distributed SQL internals with Marc Brooker - @amazonwebservices

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · 21/01/2025

Crunching too many numbers inside your Postgres database? Is it crawling along while doing analytics? Use pg_duckdb to power the elephant with the duck. Learn more from contributor @jeltef.nl in this interview on a podcast by @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn9_...

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Power of #Duckdb with Postgres: pg_duckdb

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What happens when you create a "new" Object in Java? What are the challenges in a multithreaded environment? Does GC play any role in object creation? New video will answer these questions for you. Get access here www.youtube.com/channel/UC_m... Link to the video: youtu.be/qfcnB8kciCE

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The best #SystemDesign interview question is something that is relevant to your business domain and helps you understand how well the candidate suits the requirements and the team setup.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

How do you build reliable applications faster? By taking the standard reliability patterns and applying them to your applications. Just released first episode of 2025 with Peter Kraft and Qian Li. youtu.be/F0nXTAaXYaY

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DBOS internals - Build reliable backends 10x faster

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 04/01/2025

We had a wonderful time chatting with Kaivalya about @dbos.dev, durable execution, and serverless on The Geek Narrator podcast! I was impressed by how much thought and preparation went into Kaivalya's insightful questions, which made for an engaging discussion. Check it out 🤗

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DBOS internals - Build reliable backends 10x faster

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Chris @chris.blue · 02/01/2025

This is an excellent summary. Reminds me in some ways of star tree indexes. Also feels like an LSM B-tree mashup. Interesting tradeoffs. Who's building this on object storage? 😅

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I started my 2025 reading white-paper(s) on Bε-trees. A thread that captures everything you need to know about them and more.. Like, repost and share..👇

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Deep down, everyone knows, “I will start doing XYZ from Jan 1st/New Year” is just an excuse and they are going to fail at it, worse than they did, an year ago.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

One of the Holiday projects completed. Was tougher than what I thought and easier than what my wife thought. Now movie time. One of my favourites.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A couple of more books and I am all set. 2025 is going to be amazing. Stronger fundamentals. More Deep work. Quality content. Along with podcasts, it will be filled with series on Distributed systems, JVM internals, Database internals and Stream processing.

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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy Holidays folks.. What are y’all reading?

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