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Big news for the Apache Kafka community! 🎉 Kafka 4.1 is out.
This release includes 18 KIPs from the broader community. Kafka 4.1 hardens the 4.0 foundation and introduces new features for OAuth, operations, Streams, Connect, Queues, KIP-848, and more.
Explore what’s new ➡️ https://cnfl.io/461BTbe
This release includes 18 KIPs from the broader community. Kafka 4.1 hardens the 4.0 foundation and introduces new features for OAuth, operations, Streams, Connect, Queues, KIP-848, and more.
Explore what’s new ➡️ https://cnfl.io/461BTbe
September 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Big news for the Apache Kafka community! 🎉 Kafka 4.1 is out.
This release includes 18 KIPs from the broader community. Kafka 4.1 hardens the 4.0 foundation and introduces new features for OAuth, operations, Streams, Connect, Queues, KIP-848, and more.
Explore what’s new ➡️ https://cnfl.io/461BTbe
This release includes 18 KIPs from the broader community. Kafka 4.1 hardens the 4.0 foundation and introduces new features for OAuth, operations, Streams, Connect, Queues, KIP-848, and more.
Explore what’s new ➡️ https://cnfl.io/461BTbe
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Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
August 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
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Antithesis and Jepsen are releasing a glossary of terms useful in distributed systems testing: https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/
A distributed systems reliability glossary
A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.
antithesis.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Antithesis and Jepsen are releasing a glossary of terms useful in distributed systems testing: https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/
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Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...
Kroxylicious joins the Commonhaus foundation
The Kroxylicious team are pleased to announce the project is now part of the Commonhaus foundation. We believe this is an important step in providing a stable basis for you, our community, to build ar...
kroxylicious.io
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...
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A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]
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June 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]
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Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial
Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
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A small issue in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: at the "Repeatable Read” isolation level, which in PostgreSQL normally means Snapshot Isolation, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL clusters appear to exhibit Long Fork. We observed this behavior in healthy clusters, in versions ranging from 13.15 to 17.4 […]
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April 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A small issue in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: at the "Repeatable Read” isolation level, which in PostgreSQL normally means Snapshot Isolation, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL clusters appear to exhibit Long Fork. We observed this behavior in healthy clusters, in versions ranging from 13.15 to 17.4 […]
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Psychoterror statt Tarifvertrag! 🤬 Beschäftigte der Fresenius Health Services Betriebstechnik-Nord GmbH kämpfen für faire Bedingungen & streiken unbefristet. Der Konzern setzt auf Einschüchterung – illegal! Wir prüfen rechtliche Schritte.
April 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Psychoterror statt Tarifvertrag! 🤬 Beschäftigte der Fresenius Health Services Betriebstechnik-Nord GmbH kämpfen für faire Bedingungen & streiken unbefristet. Der Konzern setzt auf Einschüchterung – illegal! Wir prüfen rechtliche Schritte.
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Restate is one of the coolest pieces of software I've encountered in quite awhile. Not often a tiny, well-crafted application comes along that forces you to fundamentally rethink software design.
Restate 1.2: a distributed durable execution engine, built from first principles
Restate 1.2 adds highly-available, distributed deployments and a graphical UI.
restate.dev
February 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Restate is one of the coolest pieces of software I've encountered in quite awhile. Not often a tiny, well-crafted application comes along that forces you to fundamentally rethink software design.
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I'm calling this concept "the plug-and-play data stack". You can just install an Engine and your queries and pipelines will magically start using it. Need to flesh out the capabilities and cost metadata to help the planner/optimizer along.
February 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I'm calling this concept "the plug-and-play data stack". You can just install an Engine and your queries and pipelines will magically start using it. Need to flesh out the capabilities and cost metadata to help the planner/optimizer along.
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forget AI IDEs. Here's what I want:
1. IDE that is as fast as ghostty
2. Includes search/indexing capabilities of JetBrains
3. speed and flexibility of cross-language compatibility and plugin system of VSCode
4. Recognizes venv on the first try
5. terminal and containers are first-class citizens
1. IDE that is as fast as ghostty
2. Includes search/indexing capabilities of JetBrains
3. speed and flexibility of cross-language compatibility and plugin system of VSCode
4. Recognizes venv on the first try
5. terminal and containers are first-class citizens
February 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
forget AI IDEs. Here's what I want:
1. IDE that is as fast as ghostty
2. Includes search/indexing capabilities of JetBrains
3. speed and flexibility of cross-language compatibility and plugin system of VSCode
4. Recognizes venv on the first try
5. terminal and containers are first-class citizens
1. IDE that is as fast as ghostty
2. Includes search/indexing capabilities of JetBrains
3. speed and flexibility of cross-language compatibility and plugin system of VSCode
4. Recognizes venv on the first try
5. terminal and containers are first-class citizens
Do you want to write an article about nothing, but still sound slightly racist?
You can write about a person wearing a kufiya with this paragraph “Es gilt als Symbol des „palästinensischen Widerstands“ und ist eng mit dem Terror gegen Juden verknüpft.”
#berlinerzeitung
You can write about a person wearing a kufiya with this paragraph “Es gilt als Symbol des „palästinensischen Widerstands“ und ist eng mit dem Terror gegen Juden verknüpft.”
#berlinerzeitung
February 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Do you want to write an article about nothing, but still sound slightly racist?
You can write about a person wearing a kufiya with this paragraph “Es gilt als Symbol des „palästinensischen Widerstands“ und ist eng mit dem Terror gegen Juden verknüpft.”
#berlinerzeitung
You can write about a person wearing a kufiya with this paragraph “Es gilt als Symbol des „palästinensischen Widerstands“ und ist eng mit dem Terror gegen Juden verknüpft.”
#berlinerzeitung
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Speculation is growing that Snowflake is planning to acquire Redpanda—but why? What justifies the rumored high price tag? When you consider market trends, the Snowflake vs. Databricks rivalry, and the AI shift, the rationale starts to become clear. Here’s my take. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/2/...
Why Snowflake wants streaming — Jack Vanlightly
Rumors are swirling that Snowflake intends to acquire Redpanda and many are questioning why and what impact this might have on Confluent. First, let’s remember that these are just rumors and there’s...
jack-vanlightly.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Speculation is growing that Snowflake is planning to acquire Redpanda—but why? What justifies the rumored high price tag? When you consider market trends, the Snowflake vs. Databricks rivalry, and the AI shift, the rationale starts to become clear. Here’s my take. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/2/...
Need to try it after having worked with Flink in AWS (Managed) and I still cry in YARN. It’s was like almost 10 years ago with the latter.
Again, we need blue/green deployments OOTB and 2.1 for a real cloud-native solution. We need better than double-digit-minute downtimes.
Again, we need blue/green deployments OOTB and 2.1 for a real cloud-native solution. We need better than double-digit-minute downtimes.
📝 Blogged: "Get Running with Apache Flink on Kubernetes, Part 2"
Continuing my exploration of running Flink jobs with the Flink Kubernetes operator, this time focusing on aspects like snapshot management, observability, UI access, and more.
👉 www.decodable.co/blog/get-run...
Continuing my exploration of running Flink jobs with the Flink Kubernetes operator, this time focusing on aspects like snapshot management, observability, UI access, and more.
👉 www.decodable.co/blog/get-run...
January 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Need to try it after having worked with Flink in AWS (Managed) and I still cry in YARN. It’s was like almost 10 years ago with the latter.
Again, we need blue/green deployments OOTB and 2.1 for a real cloud-native solution. We need better than double-digit-minute downtimes.
Again, we need blue/green deployments OOTB and 2.1 for a real cloud-native solution. We need better than double-digit-minute downtimes.
I can’t listen to Leaders™ praising Musk or other mill/billionaires. I just want to design systems that need microsecond-accuracy clocks to not fall apart. I don’t have any time or desire to praise a plutocracy where 99% is left behind.
January 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I can’t listen to Leaders™ praising Musk or other mill/billionaires. I just want to design systems that need microsecond-accuracy clocks to not fall apart. I don’t have any time or desire to praise a plutocracy where 99% is left behind.
Merz has dropped the mask and he doesn’t shy away from collaborating with AfD and their nazis. The company that I work for a year ago started an initiative against fascism in the fashion industry, then guested Merz to talk about economy and startup.
January 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Merz has dropped the mask and he doesn’t shy away from collaborating with AfD and their nazis. The company that I work for a year ago started an initiative against fascism in the fashion industry, then guested Merz to talk about economy and startup.
Waiting for the Gramsci reposts about New Year’s Eve.
December 31, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Waiting for the Gramsci reposts about New Year’s Eve.
Unacceptable. The Italian version of “Once upon a December” (Anastasia) is not available on Spotify. Spotify still actively exploits artists and uses predatory patterns over their arts but can’t get the licensing of a Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Song
December 18, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Unacceptable. The Italian version of “Once upon a December” (Anastasia) is not available on Spotify. Spotify still actively exploits artists and uses predatory patterns over their arts but can’t get the licensing of a Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Song
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In Berlin wurden die ersten ehrlichen Wahlplakate der CDU gesichtet.
December 17, 2024 at 9:53 AM
In Berlin wurden die ersten ehrlichen Wahlplakate der CDU gesichtet.