Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Iceberg Built a Maze. DuckLake Just Handed You a Map.
DuckDB's new open table format ditches files-on-files metadata and replaces it with a SQL database. One query resolves everything.
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10 Research Papers Every AI Engineer Must Read Before Their Next Interview
The ten papers that actually come up in AI engineering interviews — what each one says, why it matters, and the exact questions interviewers ask about them.
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Build a RAG System Without Embeddings or Vector Databases
PageIndex turns documents into navigable trees. An LLM reasons through the hierarchy to find answers — no embeddings, no similarity search, just structured retrieval.
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The AI Doesn't Need to Read Your Codebase. It Needs a Map.
Context Hub, Code Review Graph, and the emerging discipline of giving AI agents less to make them smarter.
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Databricks Agent Bricks Is Quietly Changing How Data Engineers Work
Describe the task. Connect your data. Let the platform handle the rest. That is the promise of Agent Bricks — and for a specific, important set of data engineering problems, it is actually delivering on it.
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Our $2M “Data Lakehouse” Is Just Postgres With Extra Steps
“We spent two years building what marketing calls the future of data architecture. It is a database with more vendors.”
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F3: The Future-Proof File Format That Finally Gets It Right
Why the open-source data world is buzzing about CMU’s new columnar format — and why Parquet’s decade-long reign might actually be ending
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The Database Endgame: Why Everything You’re Building Today Will Be Legacy Tomorrow
A controversial thesis on why ETL, data warehouses, and the entire modern data stack are about to become as obsolete as floppy disks — and what’s coming to replace them