Welcome to May’s Interesting Links! This month saw the Current conference in London with for some highlights of the conference.

I got my first Hacker News front page hit with .

Oh, and I got involved in some thought leadering over on LinkedIn (which a non-zero number of people thought was serious) with my , as well as , and has written several more blog posts off the back of it:

• , , and of alternatives (and the concept itself) on LinkedIn, as well as .





• Michel Tricot - .





• Viquar Khan - , and , and Sam Barker from the Kroxylicious project has been running some .





• Details of and .





• Bruno Cadonna - .





• Grzegorz Kocur - to continue developing it.




• Olena Vodzianova - .



• Details of how they built their for optimising both costs and performance by filtering messages.





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• Shuva Jyoti Kar - (SQL injection).



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• A good writeup from Cloudflare’s James Morrison and Christian Endres about tracing performance issues in ClickHouse.



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  Several posts from StarRocks covering new features in 4.1:

  
  
  
  
  
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  • Alibaba added DuckDB into their fork of MySQL, AliSQL, providing .

  
  
  

  • The DuckDB team announced .

  
  
  

  • 🔥 I’ve been a fan of .

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Data Platforms, Architectures, and Modelling
  

  
  
  
  
  

  • 🔥 Nikola Ilic - by moving PBs of cold data from MySQL to S3, and wrote a query engine using Data Fusion to serve it.

  
  

  • Brian Brunner and his colleagues at Cloudflare published details of .

  
  

  • Xinran Waibel - , I was very interested to read Jason Ganz’s article ("a framework for evaluating AI agents on data analyst tasks") soon.

  
  

  • Whilst Thijs Nieuwdorp’s article about .

  
  

  • A summary/re-write by Alex Yu (a.k.a. ByteByteGo) looking at from last year).

  
  

  • Netflix - / .

  
  

  • After the excellent survey and results that Joe Reis published about data engineering earlier this year, he’s now following up with a survey on .

  
  

  • Dana Rabba - is a dbt alternative that looks quite interesting. It describes itself as "the trust plane for your warehouse", and targeting Databricks users primarily, with Snowflake and BigQuery to follow. There’s a built-in playground feature that’s worth poking around to get a feel for it.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  • Marc Bowes describes how .

  
  

  • 🔥 George Zefko - ).

  
  
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    A couple of good posts from the Debezium team:

    
    
    
    
    
    • Chris Cranford discusses .
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Open Table Formats (OTF), Catalogs, Lakehouses etc.
  

  
  
  
  
  
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    merged 🎉). There are more details of the release in these blog posts:

    
    
    
    
    
    • Alex Stephen & Talat Uyarer - .
    
    
    • Alex Merced - .

    
    
    

    • Alex Merced begins an epic 15-part series about Apache Iceberg by looking at .

    
    
    

    • Honest words from Fresha’s Samuel Valente as he looks at the use of Iceberg with Snowflake in practice: . Renato Losio has a summary .

    
    

    • Radim Marek covers .

    
    

    • Markus Winand also looks at , whilst Ben Dicken muses on .

    
    

    • LinkedIn’s Pratikmohan Srivastav writes about a performance troubleshooting experience -

    
    

    • Gergely Orosz …this AI stuff is here to stay, and it’d be short-sighted to think otherwise. As I read and learn more about it, I’m going to share interesting links (the clue is in the blog post title) that I find—whilst trying to avoid the breathless hype and slop.

      
      
      
      
      

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    • Julien Hurault - .

    
    

    • Paulo Arruda - .

    
    

    • Lucia Cerchie - .

    
    

    • 🔥 Lara Hogan - .

    
    

    • 🔥 Ana Rodrigues - .

    
    
    
    
    

    
    
    
    Community and Blogging
    

    
    
    
    
    

    • 🔥 Kevin Powell wrote - definitely need to try this.

    
    

    • Mike McQuaid - Open Source Resistance: to boot.

    
    
    
    
    

    
    
    
    Read, Watch, Listen
    

    
    
    

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    • Some fun nostalgia, with screenshots of various old OSes at (the latter even has, IIUC, runnable VMs for he has occasional thoughts on more current affairs, including this one: (A memorial to affordable living).

    
    

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    • Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years.

    
    
    
    
    

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