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Enshittification is real. AI Slop is ruining the internet.

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Database Development with AI in 2026 - Brent Ozar www.brentozar.com/archive/2026...
January 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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The 95th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest it out. It covers the releases in progress, KIPs, community projects and blogs. Also as is customary, I review some of the milestones the #ApacheKafka project achieved in 2025 and make some predictions for 2026!

developers.redhat.com/blog/2026/01...
Kafka Monthly Digest: December 2025 | Red Hat Developer
This Apache Kafka community digest covers what happened in the Apache Kafka community in December 2025. It details the state of releases in progress, KIPs recently created, community project releases
developers.redhat.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Lyft's Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution
eng.lyft.com/lyfts-featur...
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Hugo + GitHub Pages is awesome too :)
January 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
2025 LLM Year in Review - Andrej Karpathy
karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...
2025 LLM Year in Review
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes
karpathy.bearblog.dev
January 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I find myself getting increasingly intolerant of low-effort AI slop.
Just because you vibe-coded some PoC, you don't need to vomit it across the internet. If it's useful and you're desperate to share it, explain why - don't just have AI shit out a "blog post" to accompany it.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Data Testing like it's not 1997โ€Šโ€”โ€ŠPart 1 | by Richard Glew freedium-mirror.cfd/https://medi...
Data Testing like it's not 1997โ€Šโ€”โ€ŠPart 1 | by Richard Glew - Freedium
We&#39ve had a lot of progress in improving how we test software from twenty years ago, but data...
freedium-mirror.cfd
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Read (or written) any good data-focussed 2025 retros/2026 look-aheads? Share them here - I'm going to include a round up in this month's Interesting Links :)

(Interesting Links: rmoff.net/categories/i...)
Interesting Links โ€ข rmoff's random ramblings
rmoff.net
January 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Apache Hudi 1.1 Deep Dive: Optimizing Streaming Ingestion with Apache Flink
hudi.apache.org/blog/2025/12...
Apache Hudi 1.1 Deep Dive: Optimizing Streaming Ingestion with Apache Flink | Apache Hudi
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hudi.apache.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Uber - Improving MySQL Cluster Uptime: Designing Advanced Detection, Mitigation, and Consensus with Group Replication www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/i...
Improving MySQLยฎ Cluster Uptime: Designing Advanced Detection, Mitigation, and Consensus with Group Replication
At Uber, engineers rely on MySQLยฎ for applications that need relational databases. MySQL is the preferred choice for use cases that require ACID transactions and relational data modeling with a SQLโ€ฆ
www.uber.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm forever recommending @raycast.com to folk, so I took the time to write down quite _why_ it's probably the best thing since sliced bread.

๐Ÿ’Œ A love letter to Raycast: rmoff.net/2025/12/18/a...
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
thanks for sharing :)
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Hey check it out - I've now got a Substack! It's just the same content as on my blog, but if you prefer getting an email then feel free to subscribe. interestinglinks.substack.com/p/interestin...

(I've moved the publication domain, just in case you happen to have bookmarked the previous oneโ€ฆ)
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Fresha - Connecting Flink, Airflow and StarRocks
Part 1: medium.com/fresha-data-...
Part 2: medium.com/fresha-data-...
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hey check it out - I've now got a Substack! It's just the same content as on my blog, but if you prefer getting an email then feel free to subscribe. interestinglinks.substack.com/p/interestin...

(I've moved the publication domain, just in case you happen to have bookmarked the previous oneโ€ฆ)
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
How Fresha reduced their Postgres on RDS storage footprint by 75% medium.com/fresha-data-...
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM