Stories by rmoff

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

Building agents using streaming SQL queries

Backfilling Postgres Toast Columns in Debezium Data Change Events

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

Taking Out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Scale

Building a Data Pipeline with DuckDB

The Synchrony Budget

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

Write more blog articles, not fewer

Data Modelling – The Tension of Orthodoxy and Speed

Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill

Lessons Learned Writing a Book

Revisiting the Outbox Pattern

Table format interoperability, future or fantasy?

Pinterest Tiered Storage for Apache Kafka: A Broker-Decoupled Approach

How Canva collects 25B events per day

How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth

Win by Giving In

Begun, the Catalog Wars Have

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