It is a review on “On Writing Well” by William Zinsser - a classic guide to good writing. The book explains key principles: clarity, simplicity, and more. And you know what? Most of these principles are well-known to experienced developers andection.substack.com/p/clean-code...

A nice and short article about bloom filter llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-... . It explains it great and bunch of good examples

I just finished my talk at #current2025 . The recording will be available soon. But you can find my slides already here docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Thanks @confluent.io for the opportunity to talk at the Current!

I have got 5th node to my scylla home cluster in #current25 from @scylladb.com . Thanks, I love them very much!

🌊 I’m excited to share that I’m speaking at #Current25 London! Join me for my talk about Real-Time Deduplication, where I’ll dive into writing efficient pipelines at a scale of more than 3 billions events per day.
📅 May 20 - 21, 2025
📍 ExCel London
🔗 Register now ➡️ cnfl.io/3GFvj1b @confluent.io

New blog post! 🔥

A practical guide to get you started with Go performance tuning. Covers setting up metrics , profiling , benchmarking, and leveraging PGO. Check it out for faster, more efficient Go services!

obrepalski.com/posts/observ...

#go #performance #observability

My colleague Ivan had an a very deep talk last year, I highly recommend to check it out

I received the speaker swag and assembled whole Scylla family. We enjoyed the Monster Scale summit together 🙂 Thanks @scylladb.com for the amazing conference!
#scylladb #scyllaSummit

Efficient deduplication is a crucial component for providing relevant personal recommendations. I will explain how we solved this problem and reduced server cost by 90% www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_tF...

Join the Monster Scale Summit to check it out www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...

Good article about RecSys architecture, I liked it docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning...

Today I released the next episode on The GeekNarrator, with @marcbrooker.bsky.social on AWS Aurora DSQL internals. This is filled with amazing insights.

Don't miss this one! youtu.be/ONkfXvPSSpc

I have got p99 swag pack and I finally assembled my home scyllaDB cluster. Thanks @scylladb.com !

It’s really decent post about database internals tontinton.com/posts/databa...

By the way, you might find this talk from my colleague Andrey @andection.bsky.social useful: www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/ge...
It provides some really useful advanced tips on how to troubleshoot Scylla clusters.

I wrote a new blog post about analysing #ScyllaDB cluster capacity. ScyllaDB is a highly performant database that supports gradual degradation under load. The post might help in understanding its true capacity and reducing server costs to some extent. open.substack.com/pub/andectio...

The tablets feature
of ScyllaDB is very impressive. It simplifies maintenance and looks like a solid foundation for possible autoscaling www.scylladb.com/2024/12/03/e...

Interesting and simple explanation Large Language Models youtu.be/Pv0cfsastFs?...

Many databases are moving their state to Object storage. What makes it feasible in 2024?

More importantly, how would you design a database on top of an Object Storage?

Just released next episode with @sirupsen.bsky.social on The GeekNarrator podcast. youtu.be/yfgD0Pa7o58

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An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently:

+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly