Anyone else who grew up in the 80s remember having paper napkins every night at dinner. What the heck was that all about? Every meal was like a cookout.
Ray Jenkins
@ramond.bsky.social
Distributed systems, databases, networking and infrastructure. Skateboarding, making music, reading and art. Building https://rotel.dev previously: Snowflake, Segment, Librato.
If you dig observability, ClickHouse, distributed tracing, and performance engineering peep this post from me, @mike.heffner.io, and the ClickHouse Eng team.
ClickHouse@clickhouse.com · 8mo agoCan you 4x OTel thoughput with Rust? Meet Rotel: pushing 460K spans/sec/core (vs 130k) How? By diving deep into Rust's threading model, resolving allocator lock contention, and reengineering JSON serialization with RowBinary encoding to stream data efficiently into ClickHouse.
It’s kind of crazy you can just rock a white t with anything but putting on white pants is almost insane.
Men will literally try to sell you an “enterprise grade, AI agent that doesn’t hallucinate” instead of going to therapy.
Everyone in Paris seems so relaxed but I haven’t smelled weed in a week. How they do it? Oh right, free health care 🤦♀️
Didn’t get to see le chat blanc today so had to settle for this.
Had a great time sharing rotel.dev at #OpenO11ySummit + #OTelDay with @mike.heffner.io. Blown away by how many people had already heard of it and tried it. “Yeah we tried it and it was 8x faster than our existing solution”. We thought today was our first official announcement 🤣.
Rotel - High Performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector | Rotel
High-performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector.
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CEO explaining why he’s cutting engineering headcount after an agentic AI demo.
How many years do you think until we see the first low cost “AI only” insurance plans replacing high-deductible health plans? Going to need to buy a lot of united healthcare stock just to cover your PPO.
If you go to a fancy restaurant and they have fried chicken on the menu, you should probably order it. The head chef has likely seen some shit and now just wants to make people happy.
I’m there at least twice a week reviving, you’re welcome San Francisco. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
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