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2025 9

  1. This MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File
  2. DataFrames, Multi-Engine Queries, and Xorq With Hussain Sultan
  3. I'm Still Here! Let's Catch Up.
  4. Kafka: The End of the Beginning
  5. Everything You Need to Know About Incremental View Maintenance
  6. AI IDEs Need Moats
  7. These Aren’t the Catalogs You’re Looking For
  8. Epsio, IVMs, and Differential Dataflow With Gilad Kleinman
  9. Infrastructure Vendors Are in a Tough Spot

2024 42

  1. S3 Is the New SFTP
  2. The Quest for a Distributed POSIX-Compatible Filesystem
  3. It's Time to Merge Analytics and Data Engineering (Again)
  4. DuckDB Is Not a Data Warehouse
  5. Virtual Machines Are Getting Better
  6. Small Batch, Artisanal ETL is Back
  7. The New Era of Flexible Infrastructure Deployment
  8. FizzBee, TLA+, and (Practical) Formal Software Verification with JP Kadarkarai
  9. Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea, Actually
  10. Search on PostgreSQL, Building Extensions, and pg_analytics with Philippe Noël
  11. Unpacking the Buzz around ClickHouse
  12. SlateDB: An Embedded Storage Engine Built on Object Storage
  13. 15 Years of Realtime OLAP (Part 2)
  14. Building a CDN for Databases With Luke Kim
  15. 15 Years of Realtime OLAP (Part 1)
  16. Bring Your Own Cloud, Nuon, and Hosted SaaS Challenges With Jon Morehouse
  17. Make Lakehouse Catalogs Boring Again
  18. Data Lakehouse Catalog Reality Check
  19. Begun, The Catalog Wars Have
  20. Musings on Data Lakes and Kafka Connect
  21. Open Source Deterministic Hypervisors Are Coming
  22. Google Cloud Breaks UniSuper and Is Kind of Sorry
  23. S3 Is Showing Its Age
  24. Nimble and Lance: The Parquet Killers
  25. Swift Adds Ownership (Kind Of)
  26. The Cloud Storage Triad: Latency, Cost, Durability
  27. PostgreSQL Extensions or Protocols: Architecture Roulette
  28. More Database Commoditization, I’m Caving on Rust, Zig Has Some Growing up To Do, and More...
  29. Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol
  30. ElectricSQL, PGLite, CRDTs, and Elixir with James Arthur
  31. Antithesis in the Wild, Polar Signals Traces Calls, GCS Express, and More...
  32. Databases Are Commodities. Now What?
  33. Arrow and Velox Play Nice, Databases Get Edgy, a UUID Shootout, and More...
  34. From Samza to Flink: A Decade of Stream Processing
  35. Databases Should Speak Substrait
  36. SQLite’s Tricky Type System, Durable Execution Moves up the Stack, and HikariCP Is Too Fast...
  37. Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications
  38. Yes, Change Data Capture Still Breaks Database Encapsulation
  39. SKDB and Reactive Databases With Julien Verlaguet
  40. The Internet Gets Faster With L4S, Terminal Benchmarking Tools, Zed Unifies Data Models, and more...
  41. Parca, Polar Signals, and FrostDB with Frederic Branczyk
  42. How Fast Can Java Parse 1 Billion Rows of Temperature Data

2023 12

  1. Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care
  2. Browser Bankruptcy 2023: Consensus, Durable Execution, Streaming, HTAP, TSDBs, and more...
  3. The Surprising Simplicity of Prometheus's Architecture, Discover FrostDB's LSM Tree for Observability, and more...
  4. What the Internet Says About S3 Express, the Best Talk at Kubecon, HighwayHash, and More...
  5. You Should Be Streaming Data on S3, Neon DB Is a Masterpiece, a Reactive Edge DB, and more...
  6. Hardware Clocks on AWS, SIMD Explored, Distributed Transactions Without XA, and more...
  7. S3 Key-Value Stores, Production Flink Usage, Titan is Terraform for Data, and more...
  8. Durable Execution: Justifying the Bubble
  9. Viewstamped Replication in Go, Deterministic Testing at Dropbox, FoundationDB's Simulation, and more...
  10. HTTP/3 is QUIC, Autoscaling Kafka Streams, Sipping WiscKey, and more...
  11. SQLite on Bluesky, Litestream, Nile Launch, Buffer Pool Refresher, and more...
  12. Hello, World!