Five years ago I joined @crunchydata.com, shortly after I wrote about having unfinished business with Postgres. Today as part of Snowflake that journey is continuing. We've built some amazing things, but are just getting started. www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy...

Crunchy Data Joins Snowflake | Crunchy Data Blog

We are excited to announce that Crunchy Data is joining Snowflake to bring Postgres to the AI Data Cloud.

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A small issue in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: at the "Repeatable Read” isolation level, which in PostgreSQL normally means Snapshot Isolation, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL clusters appear to exhibit Long Fork. We observed this behavior in healthy clusters, in versions ranging from 13.15 to 17.4 […]

If you're using Postgres for your app data you can stop stitching together a myriad of ETL tools and analytics data stores and use one database for everything. This is both awesome and a lot of fun to use.

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Today we're announcing the availability of logical replication from Postgres to Iceberg with Crunchy Data Warehouse. Now you can seamlessly move data and stream changes from your operational database into an analytical system. www.crunchydata.com/blog/logical...

People trying to use clusters of Mac Minis for AI reminds me of when SSDs first came out and people tried to use them for RAM

Is 10am on a Thursday the official newsletter time for tech companies? My inbox is getting blown up.

I got a number of questions on how we saved $30k a month on cloudwatch by moving logs directly to S3/Iceberg with Postgres so I wrote up how in a bit more detail - www.crunchydata.com/blog/reducin...

Reducing Cloud Spend: Migrating Logs from CloudWatch to Iceberg with Postgres | Crunchy Data Blog

How we migrated our internal logging for our database as a service, Crunchy Bridge, from CloudWatch to S3 with Iceberg and Postgres. The result was simplified logging management, better access with SQ...

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If you like coffee, computers, and power of 2 numbers then you'll also like my favorite pour over recipe: 16 grams of coffee 16:1 water to coffee ratio Slowly pour 48mL (the pointer size on 64-bit platforms) of water every 45 seconds until you reach 256 total mL

The whole family is getting outfitted in Framework computers this christmas www.theverge.com/news/618785/...

Fun high level overview on Meta's infrastructure approach. I enjoyed this bit about fault-tolerant commodity hardware, which AWS had to pivot on to expensive, more reliable hardware due to their customers not building fault-tolerant services. cacm.acm.org/research/met...

Just typo'd AI agents as AI gnats in the context of some hucksters inflating their usage and I'm fine with leaving it that way

If I’m ever calling the shots someday our Dev Relations team will be tasked with improving the relationships between the engineers on the dev team and Dev Advocates will travel far and wide to tell tales of our epic conquests

A break through in ML efficiency was never going to come from a US company. The incentives, especially for Big Tech, aren't aligned with it. Constraints are a necessity for invention. This feels like the automotive industry handicapping the Japanese manufacturers all over again.

In a complete surprise to nobody, far more people are more concerned about Nvidia's stock price than are excited by a boon for deep learning.

There's something very satisfying about sshing into my home server from an airplane

I wasn’t prepared for the MySQL and cloud references that are in Home Sweet Home Alone

Just to make sure I have this right: For object storage AWS has S3 and CloudFlare has R2 For distributed SQL CloudFlare has D2 and AWS has D

"Postgres compatible" - No views/triggers/sequences - No foreign key constraints - No extensions - No NOTIFY ("ERROR: Function pg_notify not supported") - No nested transactions - No JSONB What, what IS it compatible with?

There should be nutrition labels for databases. Ingredients: Paxos, NVMe drives, RDMA, epoll, blood, sweat, tears. Packaged in a facility that contains clock skew and inter-zone networking charges.

Congrats to all involved in launching Amazon DSQL (AWS finally has a Spanner competitor!) but the marketing strikes me as a bit disingenuous: "PostgreSQL compatible, offering a subset of PostgreSQL" != PostgreSQL compatible. YugaByte and Cockroach already made this mistake.

Active-active as a term has lost all meaning. Forwarding writes to a leader is not active-active, but quite a few databases do that and claim to be active-active. The concern is really about write latency and the consequences of eschewing coordination to achieve latency goals.

Call me crazy but attempting to update the most pragmatic deployment philosophy with a design by committee of a gaggle of enterprise people, most which aren’t devs/SREs, probably isn’t going to be true to the spirit of the original 12factor.net/blog/open-so...

The promise of Apache Iceberg. It's like pong for databases. #databs

About a year ago, we set out to build a modern Postgres data warehouse at Crunchy Data. Our principles were: - Most data lives in S3 - @duckdb.org has the best query engine - Iceberg will be the dominant table format - No compromise on Postgres features So, we built Crunchy Data Warehouse. 1/n

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Announcing Crunchy Data Warehouse! A next-generation Postgres-native data warehouse that provides full Iceberg support for fast analytical queries and transactions.Read more in our announcement. www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy...

Announcing Crunchy Data Warehouse! A next-generation Postgres-native data warehouse that provides full Iceberg support for fast analytical queries and transactions.Read more in our announcement. www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy...

Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics | Crunchy Data Blog

We are excited to release Crunchy Data Warehouse, a modern data warehouse for Postgres. Crunchy Data Warehouse combines Postgres with Iceberg, Parquet, and data lake formats for fast analytics queries...

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Regatta looks nice. I suspect the enthusiasm for its launch is largely about using POSIX rather than ever more long winded RPCs or YAML files regattastorage.com

If anybody is building a control plane for DuckDB it better be named Flying V

All I can conclude from this right now is that capitalism is the only ideology, religion, and party. Each election will seesaw from party to party as the winning voters point in anger at the incumbent leaders because financial ruin is closer while security and retirement are ever more far away.

Pouring the world’s largest glass of bourbon or rye at 5pm sharp

You can check out of Hotel Kubernetes any time you like, but you can never leave