Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/https://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3mjpvtiiopk2uIf you’re only going to one conference this year, make it systems distributed! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpvtiiopk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3mi4q7txx6k2eIf I you like deep technical content, I highly recommend subscribing to The Consensus, or taking a stab at writing. Or both! 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[contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfeoptuik2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3mhfegakaxs2hLLMs can trigger a potentially dangerous combination of factors: when person didn’t think code through enough to make it good, but make them feel affinity with the code and defend it as if they actually authored it.19 Mar 2026 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfegakaxs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3mgmghfbqqk2oFinally got my copy of DDIA \o/ thanks @martin.kleppmann.com and @chris.blue! And for anyone who hasn’t yet read it at least 4 time, grab your copy!09 Mar 2026 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmghfbqqk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3m5etlep2lk2bMunich Database Meetup night! ClickHouse full-text search, and CRDTs over Painful Networks by folks from Helsing, hosted by codecentric.11 Nov 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5etlep2lk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3m3b73o6y7s2aI can’t help it but completely stop taking anything the person wrote seriously if it feels like they used an LLM in an email. I can understand if one would check tone or spellcheck, but I feel like writing should still be done by a human. Am I old fashioned here?15 Oct 2025 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3b73o6y7s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3m3b6rjsy2s2aAfter twitter turned into whatever it has turned into I kept hoping for a while that it’ll somehow recover, and posting both there and on BlueSky felt cumbersome. I don’t have twitter on my phone anymore, so let’s see if BlueSky can be as good as old twitter.15 Oct 2025 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3b6rjsy2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3lyvrlngrzk2nHeading back home from Community over Code. So much new stuff this year in Cassandra: Mutation Tracking, Witness Replicas, Auto Repair, a bunch of new Analytics related work, and, of course, Accord!15 Sep 2025 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvrlngrzk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3lubdtdghlc2hCassandra Team at Apple is searching for a fresh grad / person early in their career to join our ranks in SF/Bay Area! Come work on super interesting problems with world class team. Help us build better Cassandra! Ping me if you’re interested! https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200594466/software-engineer-ase-cassandra-storage18 Jul 2025 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lubdtdghlc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3lm4xdlpsbs2xReading Sunk Works after reading the Qualcomm Equation, and can’t help but wonder what happened to engineering. I can think of 2 companies in the entire industry (which will remain unnamed) that are delivering projects of immense complexity with tiny resources, while others are lost in processes.06 Apr 2025 07:47 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm4xdlpsbs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3lgyivj6drk24Folks on database internals discord are voting for the next book. It’s a perfect time to join. This will be the third book we will be reading together, after Transaction Processing, and DDIA. discord.gg/GmchY45BbS30 Jan 2025 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgyivj6drk24https://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3ldh6qeltbs2wDo you know any load-balancing papers? Please send them my way!16 Dec 2024 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldh6qeltbs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3ldegj6stv22dIt's never too late to organize your huge pile of papers. Found 549 papers, only 156 of which had highlights or notes. However about 350 were pre-processed/marked. I kept better notes. Anyone got ideas about how to attach notes to PDFs?15 Dec 2024 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldegj6stv22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifesdjeen.bsky.social/post/3lbznswrjas2dA full house at AWS, Munich Database Meetup in full swing!28 Nov 2024 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:jrf5i6z75uqa74qkbnfafgft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbznswrjas2d