Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

It works!! I'm running a self-hosted PDS on AWS Fargate

Full architecture here:
github.com/clareliguori...

I will confess I'm still too nervous to move my main Bluesky profile over 😅

hehe shout out @github-trending.bsky.social for the heads up 🎉

$ dig +short txt _atproto.microsoft.com
"did=did:plc:fivojrvylkim4nuo3pfqcf3k"

Welcome @microsoft.com!

We reached 59K Welcome. Enjoy the flight 🦋