Manish Gill
@manishgill.bsky.social
Engineering Manager @clickhouse.com | Databases | Kubernetes | http://parallelthoughts.xyz | https://berlinsystems.xyz/ | https://cal.com/manishgill | AI Research @TomTom Delhi raised, Berlin based.
This paper finds that Rust on an microcontroller costs you about 10% extra flash space, actually saves you a bunch of RAM, and takes no extra time to deliver (as compared to C). Seems about right - especially as the C version needed a heap and the Rust version did not. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25679
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The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday which features internships, interesting jobs in software engineering, and funding news in software infrastructure. Here are all new tracked internships at Replit, Atomic Semi, SiFive, etc. No subscription needed, go do interesting things!
"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
If you've run seaweedfs, versity, juicefs, beegfs, or rustfs—permissively-licensed s3-compatible storage systems— and are open to chatting about your experience, I'd like to chat with you for The Consensus.
Hiring in the US 🇺🇸 If you are into #DistributedSystems, #Databases, #Kubernetes, then I'm hiring for #ClickHouse Cloud AutoScaling Team! Things we do: 📊 Scaling Algorithms, 🚀 Performance, ⚙️ Reliability 👥Staff / Principals (open to Seniors) DM or Reply here!
Hiring in the US 🇺🇸 If you are into #DistributedSystems, #Databases, #Kubernetes, then I'm hiring for #ClickHouse Cloud AutoScaling Team! Things we do: 📊 Scaling Algorithms, 🚀 Performance, ⚙️ Reliability 👥Staff / Principals (open to Seniors) DM or Reply here!
LLMs might teach us something about discourse. Imagine if it was socially acceptable within an argument or discussion to pause and say "Thinking longer for a better answer"
There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format: → Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu... → CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa... → SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev
GitHub - facebookincubator/nimble: New file format for storage of large columnar datasets.
New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. - facebookincubator/nimble
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Since I spent the entire first half of the day going over at least a 150+ CVs, I'll just mention a few Dos and Don't. These aren't cardinal rules (I also make mistakes). But here we go: 1. Proof of work. Done similar work? I'll likely trust you to ramp up quickly
This is still a thing. I'm hiring 2 engineers. DM me or Email your CV at manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com.
Manish Gill@manishgill.bsky.social · last yr.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!
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!
In #London this week to attend KubeCon. My colleague Jayme Bird and I will be doing a talk about a year long dtatefulset orchestration migration in ClickHouse cloud. Do attend the talk if you are interested in operators, durable execution or databases. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Kubecon2025
Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there...
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What resources would you recommend to learn C++ in 2025?
Berlin Systems Group berlinsystems.xyz will host our 5th meetup this evening. Come Join us to talk about Apache Iceberg and LLVM. If you are into Compilers, Distributed Systems, Databases, Formal Verifications, Programming Languages etc, this is the place for you.
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Berlin Systems Group is back with its 5th edition! Happening Feb 5th - we will have 2 talks: on Apache Iceberg and LLVM. Register here: lu.ma/7gzae6az
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Meetup (February 5th) Our latest meetup for all low level systems enthusiasts in Berlin. If you’re interested in how Databases, Distributed Systems and…
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Billion Row Challenge for JSON? Yes Please jsonbench.com
JSONBench — a Benchmark For Data Analytics On JSON
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Super excited to announce that my talk "Dancing with the Pods: Live migration of a database fleet while serving millions of queries" was accepted for KubeCon 2025 London. #kubecon #kubernetes #clickhouse
When you send someone a linkedin request without a note etc, what is your expectation? Not judging, just curious. I’m guilty of doing the same and would like to understand this.
Finished Stormlight Archive Book 5 (Wind and Truth) by Brandon Sanderson. I need more Stormlight content in my life so I've spent the last few days grabbing all I can. On towards Dawnshard, which is a Novella that I somehow missed. #booksky
Rewrite it in Rust is still a thing in 2025:https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/
I appreciate all the hip-hop references.
Andy Pavlo@andypavlo.bsky.social · 2y agoBuckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
