Stefan Podkowinski

Distributed Systems Engineer. Apache @Cassandra committer & PMC. Butcher of the English language. Paranoid IoT enthusiast.

[Alexey Soshin 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇧 @alexey_soshin]

A few days ago @pressron challenged me to try Project Loom.
TL;DR - I was blown away:
https://t.co/84Tygugteg

[Tim Bray @timbray]

The COE mechanism acknowledges that Shit Happens, even to highly competent teams. If you were the team that it happened to, then if you write a really excellent COE demonstrating that you deeply understand root causes down to the metal & how to fix, you get sincere praise.

[P. Oscar Boykin @posco]

Really great talk showing the practical value of formal methods. Highly recommended.

[Victor Chow @vicchow]

https://t.co/mu1Ls07KR2 A beginner's guide to database deadlock - Vlad Mihalcea via Instapaper

[P. Oscar Boykin @posco]

My OSS confessional blog post is finally published: https://t.co/CBc8DxcaHk -- I'm interested in hearing from other OSS contributors on ideas for how we can improve.

[Stefan Podkowinski @spodkowinski]

@ifesdjeen @postbank DKB - solid app, free Credit Card (not debit) with no extra charges outside Euro zone. Apple Pay works like a charm.

[Martin Thompson @mjpt777]

Software development is way more thinking than typing.

[💧 mck 🦎🐬 @mck_sw]

Commit messages are the most important documentation in your project, partly due to their permanence, and go hand-in-hand with commit hygiene.

This is especially true for code that is versioned and distributed.

[Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) @andy_pavlo]

.@CMUDB Advanced Database Systems 2019 #25: Self-Driving Database Engineering
Video: https://t.co/1YJStHkOtP
PDF: https://t.co/wU9dJOKH4f

From our (pending) paper on design principles for self-driving operation in a DBMS. It's also why we threw away our code and started over

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

ASUS, one of world’s largest computer makers, installed backdoor on thousands of customer computers last yr after hackers compromised its software update tool. The file was signed w/ ASUS digital certificates to make it look like authentic software update. https://t.co/ni17IEN6Tq

[Felix Reda @Senficon]

Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternet

[Frank @jedisct1]

Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud
https://t.co/vldSsJmYGD

[Alex P @ifesdjeen]

Look what I’ve got here! A Database Internals book. Just imagine that it’s a bass. Data bass.

[💧 mck 🦎🐬 @mck_sw]

Good read on "China Scale" and the country's growing involvement in the open source distributed technologies.
https://t.co/QRX2IlnhIt

[Apache Beam @ApacheBeam]

Guest post on Apache Community Development blog: "An Approach to Community Building from Apache Beam"

https://t.co/DtSz0s7mlz

[Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻‍♂️ @dvg]

“The German aversion to speed limits on the autobahn is up there with gun control in America and whaling in Japan”
https://t.co/xpfd9MjLIb

[sankalp kohli @kohlisankalp]

Cassandra at Apple @Bangalore from @dineshjoshi #Cassandra

[Nate McCall @zznate]

Friends: looking for good community guidelines, contributor's guidelines, codes of conduct for open source projects. I've looked through k8s and a few others CNCF and ASF projects, but curious about folks' specific recommendations and why.

[Roman Leventov @leventov]

Interesting post in the perspective of DevOps, CI, testing, deploy, monitoring etc. tools getting so automated that it often becomes a part of developer's responsibilities to do that stuff: https://t.co/Q3VvVb3BQD