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Stories by rmoff

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (blog.tansu.io)
Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
Building agents using streaming SQL queries (morling.dev)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices (blog.container-solutions.com)
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
AI Smells on Medium (rmoff.net)
Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill (rmoff.net)
Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford (nexo.sh)
A love letter to Raycast (rmoff.net)
The DuckLake Manifesto: SQL as a Lakehouse Format (ducklake.select)
How I got Claude to teach me dbt (rmoff.net)
Things DBs Don't Do - But Should (thenile.dev)
"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful (morling.dev)
What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch? (morling.dev)
Tansu is an Apache Kafka API compatible broker with a Postgres storage engine (github.com)
Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale (warpstream.com)
Let's Take a Look at... JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking (morling.dev)
walrus (High Performance distributed log streaming engine) (github.com)
Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution (jack-vanlightly.com)
I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong (rmoff.net)
On Troubleshooting (autodidacts.io)
tetris-sql: Using SQL's Turing Completeness to Build Tetris (github.com)
ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database (infoq.com)
Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit (rmoff.net)
AI will fuck you up if you’re not on board (rmoff.net)
AI Smells on Medium (rmoff.net)
Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet) (rmoff.net)
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern (decodable.co)
Queues for Kafka ready for prime time (freedium-mirror.cfd)
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern (decodable.co)