Stories by rmoff

Kafka's Broken Promise: There Is No Goldilocks Log

Dimster, a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

Adam Jacob – Communication Breakdown

Two Years of Valkey

Evaluating Claude's dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch

Claude Code isn't going to replace data engineers (yet)

AI will fuck you up if you're not on board

Wes McKinney – The Mythical Agent-Month

The Disintermediation of Databases

Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

I got Claude to teach me dbt

Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition)

Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026

Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026

Interacting with Developers on Reddit

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

Friction Logs (2018)

A Love Letter to Raycast

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