Mansur Ashraf

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I am hiring a rust engineer for a very interesting project . Please reach out if you are interested jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Anyone using Ray & Daft in production? Would love to hear about your experience

Ben Thompson analysis on upcoming Trump Tariffs was very nuanced and covered a lot of historical angles that I haven’t seen covered elsewhere stratechery.com/2024/a-chanc...

BlueSky really needs a way to unfollow starter pack options. I have followed too many packs and you can only unfollow individuals 1 by 1?

Cover of Learning Ray book

Weekend reading

A vertically integrated senior manager is a game changer on large and complex projects. These rare individuals deeply understand the project at all layers of the tech stack AND also have political influence to navigate the organizational politics to remove non technical roadblocks.

An orange cat

Why is my cat always starting me like this ?

Informing your manager that you are switching teams is much harder than informing him you are quitting the company. There is no abrupt severance of relationships and you will still see them in meetings

My son fed our cat his pizza slice when I was as not around and …. he ate it !?! . I didn’t know cats eating pizza was a thing #TIL

AFAIk I know there is still no standard tool to replicate Iceberg tables from one data lake to another ? All I have seen is people using distcp/sparkcp which is super hacky and error prone #databs

If your interview question is not relevant to the skill listed in job description, candidate should be able to intuitively come up with the solution without any prior knowledge. If it requires prior knowledge , it’s a bad interview question /rant

Probabilistic Data Structures like Count Min Sketch

Isn’t that what everyone was doing before Schema Registry was a thing? It’s fairly trivial to do but last time I did this was 5 years ago