How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4...

I discuss the state of what will be happening in the coming few years and why I encourage the 3 of you who want to be elite engineers to keep their critical thinking sharp. To pause and think before prompting. 

This is a conversation with Rashed Hasan, a PhD Candidate from the University of Nebraska. We chatted about databases, ORMs and how to use AI without losing yourself. Rashed page https://www.mdrashedulhasan.me/homepage 

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the ways they improved performance on the Syntax.fm website, how they knew it was slow to begin with, and the various changes they made to caching, and loading transcripts to improve the speed of the site. Show Notes 00:25 ...  Show more

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Building applications on top of unbounded event streams is a complex endeavor, requiring careful integration of multiple disparate systems that were engineered in isolation. The ksqlDB project was created to address this ...

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.