Nitay Joffe
@nitayj.bsky.social
Founder CTO of https://actioniq.com/
Partner at https://verissimo.vc/
Host of https://techontherocks.show/
Partner at https://verissimo.vc/
Host of https://techontherocks.show/
“Parquet is great… until GPUs, multimodal data & million-column schemas show up.”
The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra.
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The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra.
Episode link below
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Parquet is great… until GPUs, multimodal data & million-column schemas show up.”
The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra.
Episode link below
The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra.
Episode link below
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New episode: chatting with bauplan founders Jacopo Tagliabue and Ciro Greco on shipping AI with real-world data constraints.
Why listen
1. Data pipelines determine model effectiveness, far more than most teams admit.
Why listen
1. Data pipelines determine model effectiveness, far more than most teams admit.
September 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New episode: chatting with bauplan founders Jacopo Tagliabue and Ciro Greco on shipping AI with real-world data constraints.
Why listen
1. Data pipelines determine model effectiveness, far more than most teams admit.
Why listen
1. Data pipelines determine model effectiveness, far more than most teams admit.
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What if email isn’t an inbox—it’s your company’s knowledge graph? 🧠
@thatguybg.bsky.social breaks down: acquisition reality (retention/culture > price), startup energy vs. big-co burnout, Launch House, and Micro’s AI layer that turns mail into CRM/hiring/sales apps + proactive updates” link below
@thatguybg.bsky.social breaks down: acquisition reality (retention/culture > price), startup energy vs. big-co burnout, Launch House, and Micro’s AI layer that turns mail into CRM/hiring/sales apps + proactive updates” link below
August 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What if email isn’t an inbox—it’s your company’s knowledge graph? 🧠
@thatguybg.bsky.social breaks down: acquisition reality (retention/culture > price), startup energy vs. big-co burnout, Launch House, and Micro’s AI layer that turns mail into CRM/hiring/sales apps + proactive updates” link below
@thatguybg.bsky.social breaks down: acquisition reality (retention/culture > price), startup energy vs. big-co burnout, Launch House, and Micro’s AI layer that turns mail into CRM/hiring/sales apps + proactive updates” link below
Reposted by Nitay Joffe
1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
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1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB.
After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us.
Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us.
Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
The ParadeDB BM25 index brings Elastic-style full-text search to Postgres, powered by our custom Postgres-native LSM tree. Dive into how we built it:
www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre...
www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB.
After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us.
Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us.
Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
What happens when a query engine lead goes deep into edge storage design?
Josh explains how Cloudflare’s durable objects enable global, consistent state without the pain of infra.
Great listen on serverless, multiplayer, AI agents, and building apps that don’t need a backend.
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Josh explains how Cloudflare’s durable objects enable global, consistent state without the pain of infra.
Great listen on serverless, multiplayer, AI agents, and building apps that don’t need a backend.
Link below
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What happens when a query engine lead goes deep into edge storage design?
Josh explains how Cloudflare’s durable objects enable global, consistent state without the pain of infra.
Great listen on serverless, multiplayer, AI agents, and building apps that don’t need a backend.
Link below
Josh explains how Cloudflare’s durable objects enable global, consistent state without the pain of infra.
Great listen on serverless, multiplayer, AI agents, and building apps that don’t need a backend.
Link below
How does a simple tool evolve into a billion-dollar platform?
Erik Swan, co-founder of Splunk, shares insights on:
Starting with a focused “hammer” before scaling
The “physics of business” in go-to-market strategies
Navigating product-led growth and network effects
Link below
Erik Swan, co-founder of Splunk, shares insights on:
Starting with a focused “hammer” before scaling
The “physics of business” in go-to-market strategies
Navigating product-led growth and network effects
Link below
May 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How does a simple tool evolve into a billion-dollar platform?
Erik Swan, co-founder of Splunk, shares insights on:
Starting with a focused “hammer” before scaling
The “physics of business” in go-to-market strategies
Navigating product-led growth and network effects
Link below
Erik Swan, co-founder of Splunk, shares insights on:
Starting with a focused “hammer” before scaling
The “physics of business” in go-to-market strategies
Navigating product-led growth and network effects
Link below
Join us as we chat with Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, about transforming database views through incremental materialization. Learn how Epsio’s approach enhances performance and integrates seamlessly with existing systems. #DataInnovation. Link below
April 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Join us as we chat with Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, about transforming database views through incremental materialization. Learn how Epsio’s approach enhances performance and integrates seamlessly with existing systems. #DataInnovation. Link below
Join us as we chat with Viktor Kessler about revolutionizing metadata management. From Data Mesh challenges to Lakehouse solutions, and the creation of Lakekeeper for Apache Iceberg, discover strategies to make data functions profitable. Link below.
Tech on the Rocks | From Data Mesh to Lake House: Revolutionizing Metadata with Lakekeeper
SummaryIn this episode, Viktor Kessler shares his journey and insights from his extensive experience in data management—from building risk management systems and data warehouses to working as a sol...
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March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us as we chat with Viktor Kessler about revolutionizing metadata management. From Data Mesh challenges to Lakehouse solutions, and the creation of Lakekeeper for Apache Iceberg, discover strategies to make data functions profitable. Link below.
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New episode: “Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data” with @jayatillake.bsky.social .
We discuss how semantic layers bridge raw data and AI, achieving 100% accuracy for natural language queries, and what’s next for LLM-powered data pipelines.
🎧 https://techontherocks.show/14 🎧
We discuss how semantic layers bridge raw data and AI, achieving 100% accuracy for natural language queries, and what’s next for LLM-powered data pipelines.
🎧 https://techontherocks.show/14 🎧
Tech on the Rocks | Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data with David Jayatillake from Cube
In this episode, we chat with David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, about semantic layers and their crucial role in making AI work reliably with data. We explore how semantic layers act as a bridge ...
techontherocks.show
February 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New episode: “Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data” with @jayatillake.bsky.social .
We discuss how semantic layers bridge raw data and AI, achieving 100% accuracy for natural language queries, and what’s next for LLM-powered data pipelines.
🎧 https://techontherocks.show/14 🎧
We discuss how semantic layers bridge raw data and AI, achieving 100% accuracy for natural language queries, and what’s next for LLM-powered data pipelines.
🎧 https://techontherocks.show/14 🎧
Really great conversation with a brilliant mind, highly recommended.
Dive into the mind of Yaron Hadad as he talks everything from theoretical physics through AI to practical health tech. Learn about his Ramanujan machine's impact on mathematics, the challenges of nutrition science, and intriguing predictions for physics' future. This episode has it all.
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Really great conversation with a brilliant mind, highly recommended.
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ParadeDB is now integrated with Postgres block storage.
Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres.
www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres.
www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
ParadeDB is now integrated with Postgres block storage.
Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres.
www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres.
www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
Really fun chatting with @philippemnoel.bsky.social about how to turn Postgres into a full search and analytics engine. The extensibility of Postgres is one of its most brilliant design choices, and ParadeDB's extensions on top of that bring impressive capabilities.
New episode!
We talked with Philippe Noël about building ParadeDB, an exciting Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres that offers fast full-text search and analytics with zero ETL.
Search is becoming the primary interface for data-heavy applications - and AI.
We talked with Philippe Noël about building ParadeDB, an exciting Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres that offers fast full-text search and analytics with zero ETL.
Search is becoming the primary interface for data-heavy applications - and AI.
January 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Really fun chatting with @philippemnoel.bsky.social about how to turn Postgres into a full search and analytics engine. The extensibility of Postgres is one of its most brilliant design choices, and ParadeDB's extensions on top of that bring impressive capabilities.
So much fun chatting with David of Arcjet about security tooling, while "security as code" matters, AI's role in tackling bots, and everything in between. David is also the creator of Console.dev the best dev tools newsletter out there. Have a listen this is a great one.
Join us at another episode of Tech on the Rocks, this time with @davidmytton.social of Arcjet. We talk about security as code, security in a world of AI and dev tooling.
Check the episode here: https://buff.ly/4ggWGeO
Check the episode here: https://buff.ly/4ggWGeO
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
So much fun chatting with David of Arcjet about security tooling, while "security as code" matters, AI's role in tackling bots, and everything in between. David is also the creator of Console.dev the best dev tools newsletter out there. Have a listen this is a great one.