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Pat Patterson
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Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @backblaze.bsky.social. Previously Citrix, StreamSets, Salesforce, Huawei, Sun Microsystems.

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Hey @patrickmcfadin.bsky.social - I’m raising a pint to BoDi at the @datastax.com booth at #GTC25!
Pat and BoDi
March 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Subtle upgrade to my Model 3
March 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This photo tells you everything about why I bought mine!
Pat Patterson, wearing a reproduction US Army M-51 fishtail parka, sitting on his 1979 Vespa 125 Primavera ET3 motor scooter.
February 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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You can’t go wrong with a good parka! Here’s a web pic of mine - the classic M-51
February 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Post your queen
February 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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In and out in 9 minutes - a new record!
Frontline Plus cat flea protection and Clear Care Plus contact lens solution in a Costco shopping cart
February 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Dog in burning room meme with caption, “It works fine!”
January 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Scene from Spinal Tap with guitarist Nigel Tufnell asking “What’s wrong with being sexy?”
January 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Obi Wan Kenobi meme with text: Hadoop… Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
January 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Obi Wan Kenobi meme with text: Hadoop… Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
January 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Now look what you made me do!
Amazon upcoming deliveries page showing the compilation “Back To The Crossroads: The Roots Of Robert Johnson” arriving tomorrow by 10pm
January 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
January 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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January 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I guess I’d better win a five-star or higher raid! 😂

#PokemonGo
Pokémon Go field research screen with three “Win a five-star or higher raid” tasks.
December 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Minnie loves a fluffy blankie! #cats #catsofbluesky
December 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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On the one hand, I think I may need to set my running goal for the coming year to something more realistic. On the other hand, what if I DID increase my weekly mileage by 10% every week for a year? 🤔
Goals: (Running) This year • 1,656.6 mi to go 93.4 mi / 1,750.0 mi run
December 18, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Looks familiar…
Napkin with text “Southwest Airlines® was born on a napkin in 1971.” And a triangle with the vertices DALLAS, SAN ANTONIO and HOUSTON.
December 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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A Christmas tradition, this year with the San Francisco Symphony!
Title card on screen above the San Francisco Symphony orchestra: The Muppet Christmas Christmas Carol In concert, live to film
December 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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I spent a couple of minutes making sure nothing sensitive was in shot, and still had to edit out the address on an envelope! 😂
Pat Patterson’s very messy desk. Twin MacBook Pros with external monitors, and a whole lot of clutter
December 12, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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I know this is a serious topic, but Status Quo (capitalized) just makes me think of the denim-clad British boogie-rockers!
Denim-clad British boogie-rockers Status Quo
December 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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I’ve been in dev rel for twenty years now, and creating documentation, tutorials, writing blog posts and generating video content for YouTube has *always* been part of my responsibilities - have I been doing it wrong? 🤔
December 12, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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Why do people put “No DMs” in their profile, when there’s a setting to allow or disallow DMs? 🤔
Bluesky chat settings Allow new messages from everyone/users I follow/no one
December 12, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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Great quote from Kai Stinchcombe’s “Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain”. As true today as when it was written, nearly 7 years ago: hackernoon.com/ten-years-in...

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Nobody went out and did a survey about whether most credit card users would be willing to give up their frequent flyer miles in return for also losing the ability to dispute a transaction.
December 9, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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lol at the S3 Tables pricing example - three screens of text explaining exactly how AWS will nickel and dime you for this. Automatic compaction seems like a license to empty your wallet!

#reinvent

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S3 Tables pricing example: You use a daily ETL job to pre-process data from different structured and unstructured sources and update an Apache Iceberg table in your table bucket once a day. This update creates 1,000 new data files with an average object size of 5 MB and 3 metadata files with an average object size of 10 KB. Your table’s users frequently perform queries on your dataset and generate 500,000 GET requests per month. To optimize query performance, you enable automatic compaction on S3 Tables. At the end of the month, your table is 1 TB in size with an average object size of 100 MB. This example uses the US-West (Oregon) AWS Region. Your charges would be calculated as follows: Amazon S3 Tables storage charge ($/GB) S3 Tables storage price is $0.0265 per GB for the first 50 TB per month Since you are storing 1 TB of data in your table, your charge would be: S3 Tables storage charge: 1 TB (1,024 GB) * $0.0265/GB = $27.14 Amazon S3 Tables PUT request charge ($/1,000 requests) S3 Tables PUT request price is $0.005 per 1,000 requests Since you are adding 1,000 data files and 3 metadata files per day to you table, your charge would be: S3 Tables PUT request charge: 1,003 PUT requests/day * 30 days = 30,090 PUT requests/month * $0.005/1,000 requests = $0.15 Amazon S3 Tables GET request charge ($/1,000 requests) S3 Tables GET request price is $0.0004 per 1,000 requests Since you are performing 500,000 GET requests per month, your charge would be: S3 Tables GET request charge: 500,000 GET requests/month * $0.0004/1,000 requests = $0.20 Amazon S3 Tables object monitoring charge ($/1,000 objects) S3 Tables object monitoring price is $0.025 per 1,000 objects Since you have a 1 TB table with an average object size of 100 MB, your charge would be: S3 Tables object monitoring charge: 1 TB (1,048,576 MB)/ 100 MB = 10,486 objects * $0.025/1,000 objects = $0.26 Amazon S3 Tables compaction charge ($/1,000 objects and $/GB processed) S3 Tables compaction price is $0.004 per 1,000 objects processed and $0.05 per GB processed Since S3 Tables will process 30,000 new 5 MB data files added to your table, your charge would be: S3 Tables compaction charge: 30,000 data files * $0.004/1,000 objects = $0.12 and 30,000 data files * 5 MB = 150,000 MB (146.48 GB) * $0.05 per GB processed = $7.32 Total charges S3 Tables storage charge = $27.14 S3 Tables PUT request charge = $0.15 S3 Tables GET request charge = $0.20 S3 Tables object monitoring charge = $0.26 S3 Tables compaction - objects processed charge = $0.12 S3 Tables compaction - data processed charge = $7.32 S3 Tables total = $35.19
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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AWS #reInvent Day 1 - early breakfast so I could be first in the walk-up line for a session on Apache Iceberg. Somehow I totally spaced on reserving sessions when I registered!
Pat Patterson in a “Hello, Open Cloud” t-shirt, waiting outside a conference room door.
December 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM