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Jack Vanlightly

@vanlightly.bsky.social
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Researcher, advisor, writer, formal verification eng @ Confluent. Everything data (dist sys, databases, messaging, data eng/analytics). jack-vanlightly.com, www.hotds.dev Credit: ESO/B. Tafresh

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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
ChatGPT thought it was Tuesday, so I made fun of it and it admitted it was Wednesday. So I made fun of it again, and it admitted it was...Wednesday. But sure, AI agents are gonna steal my job 🤔
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It reads like FUD to me. With Flink we can combine RT Kafka data with historical Iceberg/DeltaLake data. Which sounds like what Fluss is doing. Fluss tiers to Paimon, Confluent tiers to Iceberg/Delta. What real difference is there here?
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
5) The discussion of auto-increment between James Cowling, Sunny Bains and others.
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
4) François Chollet's quote about the future economics of AI.
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
3) Marc Brooker's tweet about versioned immutable data and erasure coding.
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
2) Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec's post on Principal Engineer Roles Framework
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My top favorite quotes in issue #6 of HOTDS are: 1) Marc Brooker's blog post: Snapshot Isolation vs Serializability.
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It's alive! (Fizzbee Kafka txns spec with InitPidRequest and response)
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Databricks wants to merge Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake...
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