How can anyone trust that an AI loop won't accidentally take them to bankruptcy?
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The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
Extremely useful MCS server by context7.com providing up to date, llms.txt documentation for many libraries to your agentic context.
Context7 - Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
Generate context with up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
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Announcing etcd v3.6.0 #SuggestedRead #devopsish kubernetes.io/blog/2...
Announcing etcd v3.6.0 | Kubernetes
This announcement originally appeared on the etcd blog. Today, we are releasing etcd v3.6.0, the first minor release since etcd v3.5.0 on June 15, 2021. This release introduces several new features, makes significant progress on long-standing efforts like downgrade support and migration to v3store, and addresses numerous critical & major issues. It also includes major optimizations in memory usage, improving efficiency and performance. In addition to the features of v3.6.0, etcd has joined Kubernetes as a SIG (sig-etcd), enabling us to improve project sustainability.
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#LangChain4j 1.0.0 is out! 🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who contributed in one way or another - this would not have been possible without you! 🙏 github.com/langchain4j/...
Release 1.0.0 and 1.0.0-beta5 · langchain4j/langchain4j
Announcements We are excited to announce the release of version 1.0.0 for the following artifacts: langchain4j-core langchain4j langchain4j-http-client langchain4j-http-client-jdk langchain4j-open...
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We're going live in a few hours! If you're keen to see a new demo on how to visualise the flow of a Python program ... this one is for you! youtube.com/live/LHiX2P...
New tools to inspect the flow of Python code
We are experimenting with livestreams! We try to explore new tools and techniques weekly.The code for this project can be found here:https://github.com/koani...
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Have you tried Canvas dashboards yet? Check out the examples👇 Create personalized executive summaries ui.rilldata.com/demo/rill-op... Tailor dashboards for different teams ui.rilldata.com/demo/ezcomme... Combine data, text, and visuals into one unified experience ui.rilldata.com/demo/nyc-can...
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#DuckDB Redis (or Valkey, etc) Client Community Extension v1.0.0 is out and looking for testers and why not, contributors! There are surely early bugs in this release but the best way is to get it out there and find out! @duckdb.org #DuckDB #Redis #Valkey #extension duckdb.org/community_ex...
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DuckDB Community Extensions Redis compatible Client for DuckDB
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Looking for a new opportunity as a VP Engineering/CTO. 14 years in iGaming, built up the engineering department and architecture for an odds making startup (Huddle Tech) spent many years building bespoke backend dealing low latency and a lot of data. #OpenToWork
✅ @graalvm.org Native Image ✅ Llama3.java ✅ Vector API, FFM API ✅ Apple Silicon ❤️ — `git clone github.com/mukel/llama3... ` — `sdk install java 25.ea.17-graal` — `make native` (optionally preload a model for zero overhead) — Profit!🚀 #Java #GraalVM #LLM #LLama
Does @thenile.dev have it's documentation in llms.txt format anywhere? @gwenshap.bsky.social
🚀 The MCP Java SDK core module provides default STDIO & SSE client/server transports - no external web frameworks needed! Build MCP clients/servers in plain Java with both Async (Reactor) & Sync APIs. Spring support is optional. 🔗 Minimal deps: central.sonatype.com/artifact/io....
I'd like to build some libraries that are usable across #Java, #Scala & #Kotlin, but I also want to be free to pick my implementation language & libraries (Project Loom, Cats-Effect, Kotlin coroutines). This helps me expose nice APIs to all devs. Work in progress: github.com/funfix/tasks
GitHub - funfix/tasks: Task datatype, meant for cross-language interop (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
Task datatype, meant for cross-language interop (Java, Kotlin, Scala) - funfix/tasks
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Cats-Effect 3.6.0 is a very exciting release due to the work on its internal work scheduler, many congrats to its contributors! ❤️ #Scala #CatsEffect #FP github.com/typelevel/ca...
Release v3.6.0 · typelevel/cats-effect
This is the fifty-fifth release in the Cats Effect 3.x lineage. It is fully binary compatible with every 3.x release and fully source-compatible with the 3.6.x lineage. Please note that we did brea...
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#JUnit 5.13.0-M1 is ready for testing! 🪄 Introduce ClassTemplate and ParameterizedClass support 🗒 Add stdout/stderr redirecting options to ConsoleLauncher 🔍 New test discovery support in EngineTestKit 🐞 Bug fixes and other minor improvements junit.org/junit5/docs/...
JUnit 5 Release Notes
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Java 24 / JDK 24: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle for Linux, MacOS and Windows are available here: jdk.java.net/24/
I submitted a PR that cuts average ClickBench latency by 15% for DataFusion! But reviewing it wasn't straightforward due to the nature of complex performance tuning dynamics, so I made a blog post to explain why it works -- check it out: blog.xiangpeng.systems/posts/parque...
Efficient Filter Pushdown in Parquet – Xiangpeng’s blog
How to implement efficient filter pushdown in Parquet readers and why it’s challenging in practice.
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Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community. duckdb -ui Learn more: duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
Elevate your next dashboard by including lesser-known chart types that help users reach insights faster.
Five underused charts for richer dashboards
Go beyond standard donut, line, and bar charts. Learn about five underused chart types for richer, more engaging dashboards and data apps.
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