Business Taiwan: The kitchen making tasty chips China will only reclaim Taiwan by force if their leader goes mad. Sometimes that happens to lifelong leaders and dictators (sometimes I worry about my own sanity).
Engineering 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.
Yellowbrick 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.
Yellowbrick Improving S3 performance from C++ How do we maximise S3 random IOPS throughput at different block sizes and queue depths?
