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Principal Technical Strategist @ DataStax Apache Cassandra Committer. ASF Member. All things data, distributed systems, and building at scale. I am slowly replacing myself with AI. See if you can figure out when.

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Iโ€™d say we are. Besides RL everything that is stretching the current models, weโ€™re still seeing a solid leveling off. I still predict the next really big just will be when we have something besides tensors.

03.08.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cassandra has the Monopoly on ACID Transactions YouTube video by DataStax

Oh yes. We have it on the Tubes as well: www.youtube.com/live/n1plZtA...

17.07.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m pretty sure thatโ€™s the only place they show up. Are you going to be at Google next??

21.03.2025 22:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like you do! You keep running into that rhino all over the place!

20.03.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
screenshot from https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

screenshot from https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Cassandra 5's building momentum is showing up ๐Ÿ’ฅ
We got no plans on slowing down either ๐Ÿ˜Ž
db-engines.com/en/ranking

03.03.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Engagement == $$. Even with bots.

02.12.2024 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mastering Apache Cassandraยฎ โ€“ย Thursday 5th Dec, 2024

Mastering Apache Cassandraยฎ โ€“ย Thursday 5th Dec, 2024

Hosting with two of my favourite colleagues, tune in for an information rich webinar next week (Thurs 5th Dec).

It'll be a fireside chat over typical challenges users face with @cassandra.apache.org

For devs and ops. Register (or watch on youtube).
app.sequel.io/event/907427...

28.11.2024 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Current State of LLMs: Riding the Sigmoid Curve The AI community is embracing the sigmoid curve โ€” that after initial rapid growth, progress starts to level off as we hit natural limitations.

Just so I have something interesting to post on BlueSky. Hereโ€™s some of my latest work and writing.

Thesis: LLM capabilities are leveling off. What can we do with that information?

thenewstack.io/the-current-...

02.12.2024 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ASF Members, let me know who you are!

go.bsky.app/6RDf1ik

20.11.2024 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Catching up on C* newsโ€ฆ
Here's a list of some of the things you might have missed.

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17.11.2024 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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