Jake Thomas

bye Kafka 👋

My father just proved he was right and I was wrong. Using AI.

Well done 🫡

Engineering is fun. That is all.

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future

(for those of us who like 🎧🎶 and 🤖...)

open.spotify.com/episode/1n9V...

One of the best, hands down

datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/08...

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build.

Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible

so good byteofdev.com/posts/making...

Sufficiently-advanced software deployments are indistinguishable from magic.

Cloudflare Log Explorer is now GA, providing native observability and forensics We are happy to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard.

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So.... what exactly happens when databases are commoditized?..

So good.

query.farm/duckdb_exten...

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Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses No, this article is not about buying properties close to lakes...

Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses!

How to build and run a Lakehouse on top of @cloudflare.social R2 , Cloudflare Containers and Neon Postgres, all backed by the new DuckLake "SQL as Lakehouse" format, via @duckdb.org.

tobilg.com/the-age-of-1...

Srsly though, it is going to be so hard to sell a standard/spec/system/whatever that is named this.

DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format. DuckLake delivers advanced data lake features without traditional lakehouse complexity by using Parquet files and your SQL database. It's an open, standalone format from the DuckDB team.

ducklake.select is neat.

But I'd put it into prod tomorrow if it was called Drake.

+1, great book

Very nice

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The Contract-Powered Data Platform | Buz The contract-powered data platform is a step towards improving data quality, reducing organizational friction, and automating the toil data teams face. Here's what it looks like and how it works.

oss.buz.dev/blog/the-con... @chris.blue

@chris.blue brb

0x.tools xCapture v3: Linux Performance Analysis with Modern eBPF and DuckDB 👀👀

tanelpoder.com/posts/xcaptu...

@jackhcable.bsky.social discussing product security in the AI era 🔥

@ethanrosenthal.com speaking 🔥

Nicest thing I've heard all day 🥰 😉

thank you! fixed :)

It's neat, no question. Follow up post enroute