Databases & Data Folks

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep41 is out! With guest Panagiotis “Panos” Antonopoulos, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, on what it’s like to work on PostgreSQL after 13 years on SQL Server 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episo…. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5….

Seny Kamara

@senykamara.com

First few posts coming soon!

Alex Miller

@alexmillerdb.bsky.social

Long time followers of brooker.co.za/blog/ are in for a fun game of connecting the dots between old blog posts and the DSQL paper contents. Is that erasure coding diagram looking familiar? It appeared 3 years ago on brooker.co.za/blog/2... and now we get full context!

Alex Miller

@alexmillerdb.bsky.social

[arXiv] Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP arxiv.org/abs/2607.1... It's a DSQL paper, hot off the presses! Query processing in firecracker! Erasure coding on logs! The origin story of the turmoil crate! All cool stuff! Can't sneak an arXiv upload past me, Marc. :p

David Andersen

@daveandersen.bsky.social

Breathing outside without a mask is like licking a fireplace today. 🤮Horrifying to think that 100 years ago, Pittsburgh was like this nearly every day. Pour one out for air quality regulation and the EPA for helping transform the city into a great place to live.

Dan Langille

@langille.org

I've updated a #FreeBSD 15.0 pkgbase host to FreeBSD 15.1 It's wonderfully simple. Congratulations and thank you to those that made this possible.

Lætitia

@l-avrot.bsky.social

"Mais ne marche pas dans mon bourrier!"

Lætitia

@l-avrot.bsky.social

Quand je me suis démis le genou en randonnée, j'ai eu droit à "tu m'as gâché ma rando!" Alors qu'en plus, elle avait eu un tour d'hélicoptère gratuit !

Pete Aven

@wpaven.bsky.social

I believe he’s telling a half truth. The election can be hacked. It’s who is doing the hacking where he misdirects us.

Phil Eaton

@eatonphil.bsky.social

I wrote an article surveying how distributions handled (and in the Varnish -> Vinyl case, haven't yet handled) a few contentious forks and license changes. Paywall has expired, give it a read. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/0….

Pete Aven

@wpaven.bsky.social

The U.S. and Iran are currently attacking each other in a war that republican politicians tell us isn't a war. Nothing good can come from any of this and I'm sure it does wonders for anti-American sentiment. But don't let this distract you from the 2020 election! www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

www.yahoo.com

US, Iran each attack infrastructure in risky escalation

DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked furthe...

David Andersen

@daveandersen.bsky.social

I refuse to accept that we have had sufficient progress until I can charge my e-bike with USB-C. Bosch, are you listening?

Matthew Mullins

@mmullins.coginiti.co

My friend @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com points out that the current Databricks valuation isn't much above the current nasdaq 100 P/E ratio.

worldperatio.com

Nasdaq 100 Index: current P/E Ratio

Which is the current P/E Ratio of the Nasdaq 100 Index? Is it a reasonable value, or is it foretelling the bursting of a bubble?

Matthew Mullins

@mmullins.coginiti.co

Interesting opportunity, a weeklong workshop on ontological engineering with deep emphasis on BFO. Free in person and virtual summer school with NCOR. #databs ncor-network.org/summer-schoo...

ncor-network.org

Intensive Ontology Summer School | The Ontology Research & Development Network

PHI 605SEM (13336), The World's Ontology Ecosystem, August 3–7, 2026. Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the National Center for Ontological Research.

Shriram Krishnamurthi

@shriram.bsky.social

There are many excellent podcasts. I thought they were all "two dudes rambling away — why on earth would anyone tune in", and then discovered many are not like that. I imagine you'd have a lot of interesting things to say!

Phil Eaton

@eatonphil.bsky.social

Phil Eaton

@eatonphil.bsky.social

Phil Eaton

@eatonphil.bsky.social

Half an hour observing our patio garden (middle of concrete Astoria, three floors up) and must have seen 20 bees of at least five different species. What incredible creatures.

Brent Ozar

@brento.bsky.social