Agent Loops
Apache Kafka Topic Types
The state of humans 2036
A Day in the Life of Claude Code
AI generated, based on my rectangle people style, with modifications using Krita.
AI in the hands of non-coders
AI generated based on my previous (non-AI generated) sketch https://jack-vanlightly.com/sketches/2022/11/14/everyone-has-connectors-these-days
On merging Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake to make a new standard...
Of course this is a play on the original Standards sketch from XKCD
Source: Beyond Lakehouse Table Formats
Three stages of engineering mindset
Benchmarketing Games
Bring Your Own Cloud! Security
Bring Your Own Cloud! Billing
Bring Your Own Cloud! Data Confidentiality
Scaling and economics of distributed data systems
Inspired by the excellent blog post Surprising Scalability of Multitenancy by Marc Brooker.
Selling TCO
Sometimes those TCO analyses just don’t add up.
Estimating the cloud infrastructure bill
Scaling systems in the cloud is not the same as your on-prem data center. That cross availability zone traffic, so easy to forget… until you see your monthly bill.
Brain fail - part 3
Brain fail - part 2
Brain fail - part 1
Design documents are great, but don’t forget to validate your design too.