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DataFrames, Multi-Engine Queries, and Xorq With Hussain Sultan
Hussain Sultan, the co-founder of Xorq, discusses the broken DataFrame ecosystem and how Xorq is fixing it.
Sep 2
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Chris
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August 2025
I'm Still Here! Let's Catch Up.
The latest on Designing Data-Intensive Applications, SlateDB, AI, Materialized View Capital, and forthcoming newsletter posts.
Aug 27
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Chris
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May 2025
Kafka: The End of the Beginning
A decade of focus on adoption has paid off. Now it's time to innovate.
May 30
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Chris
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April 2025
Everything You Need to Know About Incremental View Maintenance
An overview of incremental view maintenance, why it’s useful, and how it's implemented.
Apr 18
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Chris
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March 2025
AI IDEs Need Moats
VS Code eliminated the switching cost for AI IDEs. They need to build moats to survive. Partnering with software vendors and new open source projects…
Mar 12
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Chris
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February 2025
These Aren’t the Catalogs You’re Looking For
Metadata is useful for data warehouses, streaming systems, humans, and machines. We don't need different catalogs for each use case, though. Catalog…
Feb 21
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Chris
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Epsio, IVMs, and Differential Dataflow With Gilad Kleinman
Gilad Kleinman, CEO of Epsio, talks with me about incremental view maintenance (IVM). We discuss use cases, the history of IVM, how Epsio is different…
Feb 11
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Chris
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January 2025
Infrastructure Vendors Are in a Tough Spot
Cloud native, AI-enabled, post-ZIRP companies are the new apex predator.
Jan 13
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Chris
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December 2024
S3 Is the New SFTP
Customers want their data. A customer data lake is a great way to give it to them.
Dec 16, 2024
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Chris
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The Quest for a Distributed POSIX-Compatible Filesystem
Distributed POSIX filesystems have proven elusive, but we're getting closer. Perhaps that's all we need.
Dec 5, 2024
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Chris
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November 2024
It's Time to Merge Analytics and Data Engineering (Again)
Data pipelines are commoditized and analytics engineers don't provide enough value.
Nov 18, 2024
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Chris
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DuckDB Is Not a Data Warehouse
DuckDB is a tool, not a product.
Nov 4, 2024
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Chris
17
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