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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 7h

At #FlinkForward

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 2d

a woman wearing a gold top and earrings is sitting in front of a blue background .

ALT: a woman wearing a gold top and earrings is sitting in front of a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 4d

At Polyglot Vancouver

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 6d

I'll be at the Flink Forward in Barcelona next week. Happy to talk about all things data streaming, Flink, Arrow, DataFusion and more. You can also get these cute stickers! 🐿️

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 8d

One of my superpowers: actually watching conference talk recordings 🤓

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 10d

I agree with everything in the post and I tried my best to follow these practices. But, in my experience, bad politics often win. And when that happens several times, you don't want to be involved at all...

Matheus Lima @terriblesoftware.org · 14d

Politics isn't manipulation and backstabbing. It's understanding how decisions actually get made and learning to navigate that reality.

Refusing to engage doesn't make politics go away. It just means you lose by default.

terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/s...

Stop Avoiding Politics

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

terriblesoftware.org

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 11d

or Akka

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 16d

Arroyo powers Cloudflare Pipelines. R2 SQL is a separate project (but also leverages DataFusion).

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 23d

Today, in the Data Streaming Journey, I'm sharing my experience of building data streaming products with the RAD stack: Rust, Arrow, DataFusion.

www.streamingdata.tech/p/streaming-...

Streaming and the RAD Stack

RAD: Rust, Arrow, DataFusion

www.streamingdata.tech

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 26d

Really, Grammarly?

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · Sep 15

Introducing Iron Vector: native, columnar, vectorized, high-performance accelerator for Apache Flink SQL and Table API built on top of Rust, Arrow and DataFusion.

Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · 29d

Learn to give and don't expect anything in return.

Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · Sep 15

Read the announcement post for more details: irontools.dev/blog/introdu...

Introducing Iron Vector: Apache Flink Accelerator Capable of Reducing Compute Cost by up to 2x

Iron Vector is a native, columnar, vectorized, high-performance accelerator for Apache Flink SQL and Table API pipelines. It’s easy to install, requires no code changes, and can increase compute effic...

irontools.dev

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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com · Sep 15

Introducing Iron Vector: native, columnar, vectorized, high-performance accelerator for Apache Flink SQL and Table API built on top of Rust, Arrow and DataFusion.

Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.