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Gunnar Morling - A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet developer.confluent.io/blog/fast-pa...
A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet
How Hardwood detects fixed-length lists in Parquet's encoded definition and repetition levels, bypassing Dremel reconstruction for a 1.1×–3.9× parse speed-up.
developer.confluent.io
Mark Callaghan - Orasort (Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort) smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/comm...
Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort
The patent expired for US7680791B2 . I invented this while at Oracle and it landed in 10gR2 with claims of ~5X better performance vs the pr...
smalldatum.blogspot.com
antirez - The real AI risk is inside the labs antirez.com/news/172
The real AI risk is inside the labs - <antirez>
The real AI risk is inside the labs
antirez.com
Qi Zhu and Andrew Lamb - Optimizing for Almost Sorted Data: Sort Pushdown in Apache DataFusion datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/07...
Aleksandr Birin - How Zalando Migrated a Home-Grown Stateful Event Join at Scale to Apache Flink (and halved their infrastructure cost) engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/0...
Kyle Cheung - DuckDB Internals: Why is DuckDB Fast? (Part 2 Vectorized Execution) www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-...
I'm preparing this month's Interesting Links newsletter (subscribe here! interestinglinks.substack.com) and so with it rummaging through the grab bag of content that humans and clankers have been creating this month. My first shout out (not in a good way) goes to… (1/2)
Interesting Links in the Data and AI World | rmoff | Substack
A monthly recap of links in and around the worlds of data and AI that I've found interesting. Click to read Interesting Links in the Data and AI World, by rmoff, a Substack publication with hundreds o...
interestinglinks.substack.com
Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
Richard Artoul - One Weird Trick to Make Rapid Storage 40x Faster www.warpstream.com/blog/one-wei...
One Weird Trick to Make Rapid Storage 40x Faster
GCP Rapid Buckets should have made WarpStream faster on GCP, but they didn't, until we found the trick. Here's how we cut P99 file write latency by 3x with a few small, surgical changes.
warpstream.com
Clanker content wars: The only winning move is not to play rmoff.net/2026/07/24/t...
Having clankers churn out content to feed the clankers is a futile game to play. Somewhere out there are real humans wanting to read real content, but being deafened by the roar of shit.
Oleh Korniienko - Guide to data tools landscape for developers sinja.io/blog/data-la...
Guide to data tools landscape for developers · OlegWock
Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over…
sinja.io
Keith Lee - How we cut Flink OOMKills by 91.2%: Zombie block cache, phantom CPUs (and some bonus AI Learnings) developer.confluent.io/blog/flink-o...
Hey, we launched a new blog :) It's even got an RSS feed! 100% technical content, covering Kafka, Flink, and much more. 👉🏻 developer.confluent.io/blog/
Fiore Mario Vitale - Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium debezium.io/blog/2026/07...
Building Kafka-Less Data Integration Pipelines with Debezium
Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture. Start it up, point it at your databases, and your apps can start responding to all of the inserts, updates, and deletes that…
debezium.io
Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale netflixtechblog.com/data-project...
Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale
By Amer Hesson, Marcelo Mayworm, James Mulcahy, and Brittany Truong
netflixtechblog.com
"The LLM grinds everything into the same inherently untrustable confidently-expressed blandness" Dian Fay - What LLMs are Doing to Conference Programs, and How to Use Them Effectively if You're Going to Do It Anyway di.nmfay.com/llms-confere...
what llms are doing to conference programs, and how to use them effectively if you're going to do it anyway
machine-generated submissions aren't just a hypothetical risk—they're a real problem with pivotal consequences
di.nmfay.com
