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Big news for the Apache Kafka community! 🎉 Kafka 4.1 is out.
This release includes 18 KIPs from the broader community. Kafka 4.1 hardens the 4.0 foundation and introduces new features for OAuth, operations, Streams, Connect, Queues, KIP-848, and more.
Explore what’s new ➡️ https://cnfl.io/461BTbe

wake up babe new #Scala syntax dropped

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

A distributed systems reliability glossary A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.

Antithesis and Jepsen are releasing a glossary of terms useful in distributed systems testing: https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/

Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]

Huge kudos for the effort to write and gather all the good stuff around stream processing 🤓

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.

He couldn’t, so he created grok.

Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

A small issue in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: at the "Repeatable Read” isolation level, which in PostgreSQL normally means Snapshot Isolation, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL clusters appear to exhibit Long Fork. We observed this behavior in healthy clusters, in versions ranging from 13.15 to 17.4 […]

Titel: "Fresenius: Hausbesuche bei Streikenden". Im Hintergrund ein mehrstöckiges Wohnhaus, im Vordergrund der schwarze Scherenschnitt einer Person. Oben rechts das ver.di-Logo.

Psychoterror statt Tarifvertrag! 🤬 Beschäftigte der Fresenius Health Services Betriebstechnik-Nord GmbH kämpfen für faire Bedingungen & streiken unbefristet. Der Konzern setzt auf Einschüchterung – illegal! Wir prüfen rechtliche Schritte.

but I’ll survive because I am strong and capable person (tm)

mocks are not good.

Restate 1.2: a distributed durable execution engine, built from first principles Restate 1.2 adds highly-available, distributed deployments and a graphical UI.

Restate is one of the coolest pieces of software I've encountered in quite awhile. Not often a tiny, well-crafted application comes along that forces you to fundamentally rethink software design.

YAML file for an Engine, as specified by a URL and a dialect.

I'm calling this concept "the plug-and-play data stack". You can just install an Engine and your queries and pipelines will magically start using it. Need to flesh out the capabilities and cost metadata to help the planner/optimizer along.

forget AI IDEs. Here's what I want:

1. IDE that is as fast as ghostty
2. Includes search/indexing capabilities of JetBrains
3. speed and flexibility of cross-language compatibility and plugin system of VSCode
4. Recognizes venv on the first try
5. terminal and containers are first-class citizens

Ma che articolo è. Utilizziamo una nazionalità - quella che è più comoda - ma non una ideologia. Guido Olimbio persona triste.

maybe xenophobic is more fitting in this case.

Screenshot of a newspaper article. The title is Seller at Decathlon wears Palestinian scarf.

Do you want to write an article about nothing, but still sound slightly racist?

You can write about a person wearing a kufiya with this paragraph “Es gilt als Symbol des „palästinensischen Widerstands“ und ist eng mit dem Terror gegen Juden verknüpft.”

#berlinerzeitung

Speculation is growing that Snowflake is planning to acquire Redpanda—but why? What justifies the rumored high price tag? When you consider market trends, the Snowflake vs. Databricks rivalry, and the AI shift, the rationale starts to become clear. Here’s my take. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/2/...

Need to try it after having worked with Flink in AWS (Managed) and I still cry in YARN. It’s was like almost 10 years ago with the latter.

Again, we need blue/green deployments OOTB and 2.1 for a real cloud-native solution. We need better than double-digit-minute downtimes.

I can’t listen to Leaders™ praising Musk or other mill/billionaires. I just want to design systems that need microsecond-accuracy clocks to not fall apart. I don’t have any time or desire to praise a plutocracy where 99% is left behind.

Let’s see what’s going to happen with DEI and other initiatives after the German elections. It’s amazing being a migrant in Germany.

Merz has dropped the mask and he doesn’t shy away from collaborating with AfD and their nazis. The company that I work for a year ago started an initiative against fascism in the fashion industry, then guested Merz to talk about economy and startup.

Waiting for the Gramsci reposts about New Year’s Eve.

Unacceptable. The Italian version of “Once upon a December” (Anastasia) is not available on Spotify. Spotify still actively exploits artists and uses predatory patterns over their arts but can’t get the licensing of a Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Song

Drei fake Wahlplakate der CDU an einem Laternenmast. Oben steht: wieder nichts für die Bahn. In der Mitte steht: wieder ins gestern. Unten steht wieder nichts für die Demokratie

In Berlin wurden die ersten ehrlichen Wahlplakate der CDU gesichtet.