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Why we don't want just hardcore programmers anymore
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Why we don't want just hardcore programmers anymore

Today's software developer can't just have an interest in the machine, like what fascinated me when I grew up programming. He or she must be interested in understanding and solving actual problems for people and businesses, and be able to join the dots back to the underlying technology.

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Neil Carson Feb 3, 2023 • 5 min read
Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines
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Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines

SQL engines aren't data warehouses. SQL tech is a fashion. In-memory analytics makes no sense. Data lakehouses aren't data warehouses. Neither was Hadoop.

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Neil Carson Jan 13, 2022 • 6 min read
Improving S3 performance from C++
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Improving S3 performance from C++

How do we maximise S3 random IOPS throughput at different block sizes and queue depths?

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Neil Carson Nov 24, 2021 • 5 min read
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