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Stories by rmoff

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (blog.tansu.io)
HN 118 pts 26 comments by rmoff Jan 20, 2026 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
HN 110 pts 12 comments by rmoff Feb 26, 2026 thread
Building agents using streaming SQL queries (morling.dev)
HN 103 pts 10 comments by rmoff Jun 18, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices (blog.container-solutions.com)
L 87 pts 66 comments by rmoff Mar 18, 2025 distributedscaling Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
L 60 pts 20 comments by rmoff Jan 15, 2026 programming Programming (General) thread
AI Smells on Medium (rmoff.net)
L 33 pts 10 comments by rmoff Nov 25, 2025 rant AI / Machine Learning thread
Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill (rmoff.net)
HN 29 pts 1 comments by rmoff Feb 28, 2025 thread
Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford (nexo.sh)
L 23 pts 5 comments by rmoff May 9, 2025 distributedscaling Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
A love letter to Raycast (rmoff.net)
L 22 pts 16 comments by rmoff Dec 19, 2025 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread
The DuckLake Manifesto: SQL as a Lakehouse Format (ducklake.select)
L 19 pts 0 comments by rmoff Jun 2, 2025 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
How I got Claude to teach me dbt (rmoff.net)
L 18 pts 11 comments by rmoff Feb 24, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Things DBs Don't Do - But Should (thenile.dev)
L 18 pts 11 comments by rmoff Mar 14, 2023 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful (morling.dev)
L 15 pts 13 comments by rmoff Nov 3, 2025 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch? (morling.dev)
L 12 pts 6 comments by rmoff Apr 24, 2025 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Tansu is an Apache Kafka API compatible broker with a Postgres storage engine (github.com)
L 12 pts 3 comments by rmoff Sep 17, 2024 databasesdistributed Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale (warpstream.com)
L 11 pts 1 comments by rmoff Apr 11, 2025 distributed Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Let's Take a Look at... JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking (morling.dev)
L 9 pts 0 comments by rmoff Mar 28, 2025 java Programming (General) thread
walrus (High Performance distributed log streaming engine) (github.com)
L 8 pts 6 comments by rmoff Dec 4, 2025 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution (jack-vanlightly.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by rmoff Nov 24, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread
I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong (rmoff.net)
L 8 pts 0 comments by rmoff Nov 20, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
On Troubleshooting (autodidacts.io)
L 8 pts 0 comments by rmoff Mar 25, 2025 compscipractices Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
tetris-sql: Using SQL's Turing Completeness to Build Tetris (github.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by rmoff Sep 4, 2024 databases Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database (infoq.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by rmoff Aug 21, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit (rmoff.net)
HN 7 pts 1 comments by rmoff Dec 3, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread
AI will fuck you up if you’re not on board (rmoff.net)
L 6 pts 43 comments by rmoff 3d ago vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
AI Smells on Medium (rmoff.net)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by rmoff Nov 25, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet) (rmoff.net)
L 6 pts 0 comments by rmoff 11h ago vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern (decodable.co)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by rmoff Oct 31, 2024 thread
Queues for Kafka ready for prime time (freedium-mirror.cfd)
L 5 pts 1 comments by rmoff Feb 23, 2026 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern (decodable.co)
L 5 pts 1 comments by rmoff Oct 31, 2024 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread