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Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
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How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management
www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/f...
www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/f...
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 PM
How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management
www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/f...
www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/f...
Here's January's edition of Interesting Links: rmoff.net/2026/01/20/i...
It's a bumper set of links with which to kick off 2026 including, unashamedly, plenty about AI. Had your fill of AI in your timeline? There's also lots of data engineering, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more.
It's a bumper set of links with which to kick off 2026 including, unashamedly, plenty about AI. Had your fill of AI in your timeline? There's also lots of data engineering, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more.
Interesting links - January 2026
rmoff.net
January 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Here's January's edition of Interesting Links: rmoff.net/2026/01/20/i...
It's a bumper set of links with which to kick off 2026 including, unashamedly, plenty about AI. Had your fill of AI in your timeline? There's also lots of data engineering, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more.
It's a bumper set of links with which to kick off 2026 including, unashamedly, plenty about AI. Had your fill of AI in your timeline? There's also lots of data engineering, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and more.
nano banana one-shot.
this shit is too much fun.
prompt: "create meme: i iz now agentic"
this shit is too much fun.
prompt: "create meme: i iz now agentic"
January 21, 2026 at 11:45 AM
nano banana one-shot.
this shit is too much fun.
prompt: "create meme: i iz now agentic"
this shit is too much fun.
prompt: "create meme: i iz now agentic"
How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
www.etsy.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:27 PM
How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
I put together a quick list of TUIs for #ApacheKafka.
Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using?
old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...
Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using?
old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...
List of Kafka TUIs
Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using? - [kafka2i](https://github.com/coding-yogi/kafka2i) -...
old.reddit.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I put together a quick list of TUIs for #ApacheKafka.
Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using?
old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...
Any others to add to this list? Which ones are people using?
old.reddit.com/r/apachekafk...
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/a...
Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations
Check out this deep dive into how Uber runs Apache Hudi™ at extreme scale—handling trillions of records, petabytes of data, and high-concurrency table services across regions.
www.uber.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/a...
📝 I'm compiling my list of January's Interesting Links in the Data World.
Got any articles you'd like to see on there? Drop me a line!
Want to read the list when it's published? You can follow my blog RSS feed (rmoff.net/categories/i...) or subscribe to my Substack (interestinglinks.substack.com)
Got any articles you'd like to see on there? Drop me a line!
Want to read the list when it's published? You can follow my blog RSS feed (rmoff.net/categories/i...) or subscribe to my Substack (interestinglinks.substack.com)
rmoff.net
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
📝 I'm compiling my list of January's Interesting Links in the Data World.
Got any articles you'd like to see on there? Drop me a line!
Want to read the list when it's published? You can follow my blog RSS feed (rmoff.net/categories/i...) or subscribe to my Substack (interestinglinks.substack.com)
Got any articles you'd like to see on there? Drop me a line!
Want to read the list when it's published? You can follow my blog RSS feed (rmoff.net/categories/i...) or subscribe to my Substack (interestinglinks.substack.com)
Cong Wang - Personal Taste Is the Moat - wangcong.org/2026-01-13-p...
Personal Taste Is the Moat
AI can now tell you whether code works. It reviews patches, spots bugs, suggests fixes, and explains trade-offs. Correctness is becoming cheap. Competence is being commoditized.
wangcong.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Cong Wang - Personal Taste Is the Moat - wangcong.org/2026-01-13-p...
InfoQ - How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines Into a Single Source of Truth
www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...
www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...
How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines Into a Single Source of Truth
Agoda recently described how it consolidated multiple independent data pipelines into a centralized Apache Spark-based platform to eliminate inconsistencies in financial data. The company implemented…
www.infoq.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
InfoQ - How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines Into a Single Source of Truth
www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...
www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...
We all loved MinIO for building neat demos locally that need S3…and then they went and shuttered the project. I took a look at some of the alternatives, including S3Proxy, RustFS, Garage, CloudServer, and more.
👉 rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...
(💾 code repo: github.com/rmoff/minio-...)
👉 rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...
(💾 code repo: github.com/rmoff/minio-...)
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
rmoff.net
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
We all loved MinIO for building neat demos locally that need S3…and then they went and shuttered the project. I took a look at some of the alternatives, including S3Proxy, RustFS, Garage, CloudServer, and more.
👉 rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...
(💾 code repo: github.com/rmoff/minio-...)
👉 rmoff.net/2026/01/14/a...
(💾 code repo: github.com/rmoff/minio-...)
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn - Karthik Ramgopal & Prince Valluri
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn - Karthik Ramgopal & Prince Valluri
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
How Uber Saved 13,000 Engineering Hours with a RAG‑Powered Slack Bot for On‑Call Support
www.uber.com/blog/genie-u...
www.uber.com/blog/genie-u...
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
How Uber Saved 13,000 Engineering Hours with a RAG‑Powered Slack Bot for On‑Call Support
www.uber.com/blog/genie-u...
www.uber.com/blog/genie-u...
Simplifying Large-Scale LLM Processing across Instacart
tech.instacart.com/simplifying-...
tech.instacart.com/simplifying-...
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Simplifying Large-Scale LLM Processing across Instacart
tech.instacart.com/simplifying-...
tech.instacart.com/simplifying-...
Database Development with AI in 2026 - Brent Ozar www.brentozar.com/archive/2026...
January 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Database Development with AI in 2026 - Brent Ozar www.brentozar.com/archive/2026...
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The 95th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest it out. It covers the releases in progress, KIPs, community projects and blogs. Also as is customary, I review some of the milestones the #ApacheKafka project achieved in 2025 and make some predictions for 2026!
developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/01...
developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/01...
Kafka Monthly Digest: December 2025 | Red Hat Developer
This Apache Kafka community digest covers what happened in the Apache Kafka community in December 2025. It details the state of releases in progress, KIPs recently created, community project releases
developers.redhat.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The 95th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest it out. It covers the releases in progress, KIPs, community projects and blogs. Also as is customary, I review some of the milestones the #ApacheKafka project achieved in 2025 and make some predictions for 2026!
developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/01...
developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/01...
Lyft's Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution
eng.lyft.com/lyfts-featur...
eng.lyft.com/lyfts-featur...
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Lyft's Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution
eng.lyft.com/lyfts-featur...
eng.lyft.com/lyfts-featur...
2025 LLM Year in Review - Andrej Karpathy
karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...
karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...
2025 LLM Year in Review
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes
karpathy.bearblog.dev
January 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
2025 LLM Year in Review - Andrej Karpathy
karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...
karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...
I find myself getting increasingly intolerant of low-effort AI slop.
Just because you vibe-coded some PoC, you don't need to vomit it across the internet. If it's useful and you're desperate to share it, explain why - don't just have AI shit out a "blog post" to accompany it.
Just because you vibe-coded some PoC, you don't need to vomit it across the internet. If it's useful and you're desperate to share it, explain why - don't just have AI shit out a "blog post" to accompany it.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I find myself getting increasingly intolerant of low-effort AI slop.
Just because you vibe-coded some PoC, you don't need to vomit it across the internet. If it's useful and you're desperate to share it, explain why - don't just have AI shit out a "blog post" to accompany it.
Just because you vibe-coded some PoC, you don't need to vomit it across the internet. If it's useful and you're desperate to share it, explain why - don't just have AI shit out a "blog post" to accompany it.
Data Testing like it's not 1997 — Part 1 | by Richard Glew freedium-mirror.cfd/https://medi...
Data Testing like it's not 1997 — Part 1 | by Richard Glew - Freedium
We've had a lot of progress in improving how we test software from twenty years ago, but data...
freedium-mirror.cfd
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Data Testing like it's not 1997 — Part 1 | by Richard Glew freedium-mirror.cfd/https://medi...
Jaehyeon Kim - Stream Processing with Flink in Kotlin
Stream Processing with Flink in Kotlin
A couple of years ago, I read Stream Processing with Apache Flink and worked through the examples using PyFlink. While the book offered a solid introduction to Flink, I frequently hit limitations…
jaehyeon.me
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Jaehyeon Kim - Stream Processing with Flink in Kotlin
Read (or written) any good data-focussed 2025 retros/2026 look-aheads? Share them here - I'm going to include a round up in this month's Interesting Links :)
(Interesting Links: rmoff.net/categories/i...)
(Interesting Links: rmoff.net/categories/i...)
Interesting Links • rmoff's random ramblings
rmoff.net
January 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Read (or written) any good data-focussed 2025 retros/2026 look-aheads? Share them here - I'm going to include a round up in this month's Interesting Links :)
(Interesting Links: rmoff.net/categories/i...)
(Interesting Links: rmoff.net/categories/i...)
ICYMI: I now have a substack :) interestinglinks.substack.com/p/interestin...
Interesting Links in the Data World - December 2025
(originally published at https://rmoff.net/2025/12/16/interesting-links-december-2025/)This Substack is an experiment!
interestinglinks.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ICYMI: I now have a substack :) interestinglinks.substack.com/p/interestin...
Streaming with Apache Iceberg: The Operational Problems at Scale | Yuval Yogev www.ryft.io/blog/streami...
Streaming with Apache Iceberg: The Operational Problems at Scale | Yuval Yogev
Streaming into Iceberg creates three operational problems most teams don't see coming: small files pile up faster than you can compact them, storage costs climb because you're paying for data you've…
www.ryft.io
December 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Streaming with Apache Iceberg: The Operational Problems at Scale | Yuval Yogev www.ryft.io/blog/streami...