We have also added discussions of sync engines and local-first software, workflow engines and durable execution, formal methods and randomized testing, GraphQL, and various other technologies that are worth knowing about. We have included a bit of legal context as well, by exploring the impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related law. We’ve also taken a few things away—for example, as MapReduce is now largely obsolete, we have rewritten the batch processing chapter accordingly, and we sadly decided to drop the Tolkien-style maps.

started reading the second edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications and we're off to a good start... or are we?

I've recently started blogging. Posted one today about my attempt at writing a bracket validator in Go in as few characters as possible :D

thedeliberate.life/posts/2026-0...

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Monster Scale Summit (free and virtual) starts tomorrow. Pop in to learn from an incredible lineup (@skamille.themanagerswrath.com, @antirez.bsky.social, @martin.kleppmann.com, @muratdemirbas.bsky.social, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @teivah.dev Pat Helland, Joran Greef....) www.scylladb.com/summit

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.

Was revisiting some of my past reads and I absolutely love it when small books pack a punch! This one is aptly named, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

Happy birthday Sy, love the earrings!

This is the way!

Been trying to use vim primarily for the past few months and this post was so relatable!

Screenshot of my blog "Challenge: A Week of Using Vim"

I wrote a blog on using vim for a week. It might help people trying to make the switch! Fun week, there were some tears ngl

vallariagrawal.com/blog/vim-week/

Wake up, mess up git rebase, use reflog to fix it, repeat 🙆🏻‍♀️

Something like this blog.cloudflare.com/tag/post-mor... but not specific to a single company.

Was doing a bit of research and wondering if there is a place to find a catalogue of incidents and their retrospectives? If there is a place where they are tagged with tech involved too, that would be a cherry on top!

Wow! What app is this?

Ah this is fascinating! Thank you so much for looking into it 🙏🏻

Got a female pilot on a flight I took recently. Gave me a little hope and encouragement amidst everything else going on these days ❤️

best description of a developer debugging code 😁

The heart wants what it wants and mine wants to use this pleasantly unexpected day off to put on something cozy and go to the library to practice sketching figures and portraits

I’ve heard a lot of people say that but for me dune 2 is miles ahead of the first one. The transition to Lisan al Gaib was phenomenal!

Truly! When I first watched it, I felt I’m experiencing something akin to the cultural phenomenon that was Star Wars.

What a dream! 😍

It’s absurd how much I relate with this. Can’t even count how many times I’ve rewatched Dune 2 at this point, it doesn’t get old!

Reading makes you live longer.

Yay! 🥳

a boat is going through the water with the words " hahaha business " below it ALT: a boat is going through the water with the words " hahaha business " below it

Happy return to work day to all those who celebrate it.

Let's do some business

It’s fascinating to see how many of my small habits to big life decisions are so heavily influenced by people who I used to look upto when I was a kid, really.

People don’t know the kind of impact they can have, what a beautiful legacy to have 🌸

This is a happy place, no AI needed 😁

One thing that AI is definitely saving me time on is writing LinkedIn posts. I’ve never liked posting on LinkedIn and have often skipped posting professional updates, but thanks to AI that’s one less thing to procrastinate about!

Thank you! 😁