Felix GV

Can it be the inherent convenience of dynamic languages?

Rust not only needs to be compiled, but lacking a VM, it needs to be compiled for each target platform. An acceptable tradeoff for services that probably should only run on limited targets anyway, but not so great for simple scripts?

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DBZ in Rust

Side question… do you know of anyone using TiKV in any production use case? (Meaning, just TiKV, without TiDB on top)

Cool ideas! Maybe just a listicle in the docs?

Are they on segways underneath the robes? 🤔

What input did it use? Only your code and comments? Or your human-written docs as well?

BTW, you pronounce Cannes like Ken, while @karaswisher.bsky.social pronounces it like Khan… but neither of those are right.

Cannes sounds like the first syllable in Canada. Unless you’re one of those folks who say Kenada, then this advice doesn’t apply to you 😅 …

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Good conclusion 🤝

If you’d like to learn more, this talk provides an in-depth explanation of the Hybrid Store Design Pattern:

youtu.be/hc0pgvnr3fQ

YouTube video by J On The Beach Da Vinci: Pumping Streams into RocksDB and DuckDB - Felix GV at JOTB25

Catch the replay for the latest #VeniceDB talk!

In it, you will learn more about derived data, the related design patterns coming from the industry over the past 15 years, and how Venice's architecture keeps pushing the boundaries in that space!

youtu.be/hc0pgvnr3fQ

And here I am working for the past decade on a zero dot project 🥲

I’ve been living under a rock. Didn’t know MCP existed as far back as last year.

Still fast to reach two major versions in 6 months but that’s ok. Things are moving fast in the AI space 😅 ..

How does a project about something that came out a few weeks ago get to version 2.9.0 so quickly? Vibe versioning?

You forgot to reveal if you (the narrator) were a Martian or Earthling or Saturnian or some other thing. I trust you will fix this in the next season?

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

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Didn’t expect Kate to have such beard. What a time to be alive!

That’s a lot! You’re a beast. Retirement is treating you well 💪

It’s ok, you owe everything to your mother 😅🤣🤔

YouTube video by @Scale Building KVStore for ML Workloads at Pinterest | Jia Zhan

The part which describes the Hybrid Store design pattern is at 6:12 youtu.be/aCVIjDkzLM8?...

And just a few days ago, Jia Zhan from Pinterest gave a talk at the @Scale conference about the KVStore system that they built, which also implements this pattern. See the talk here: youtu.be/aCVIjDkzLM8

At LinkedIn, we have at least two more (proprietary) systems implementing this pattern.

I posted about the Hybrid Store design pattern last week and mentioned that @venicedb.org is an open source system that implements it, but that's not the only one!

I mean… these are the best carbs though 🤷‍♂️🤣

Have you come across the Hybrid Store design pattern in your work? Please let me know if you did, and point me to any existing systems you know of which do this. I would be curious to compare and contrast.

Wire compat is not as big of a deal as it might seem though. API compat is the bigger deal, but that, too (sadly), has been a casualty.

NG/Xinfra wants to remove static partitioning from the user’s purview. But for some power users it still (reluctantly) provides something similar.

Yes. It’s been a running joke that half a dozen industry players can reimplement the Kafka wire protocol, but LinkedIn’s stream team is not one of them 🤣

They just hate it too much, and think its design flaws are too significant to bother with.

Kafka at LI doesn’t provide any of these features either, so the replacement need not do so either.

One significant feature we do use in Kafka at LI but which NG kicks back is one you know intimately… log compaction!

On the other hand, a Closeable instance which is not used as part of try-with-resources or doesn’t get an explicit call to its close() method won’t ever automatically close, even if it becomes unreachable and gets garbage-collected.

Instances implementing the Closeable interface, however, can be used as part of the try-with-resources syntax, and in that case, the close() method will be called as soon as the try block’s scope ends, rather than asynchronously afterwards, which seems more similar to Drop.