DuckDB Labs acquired by AWS. What does it mean?

Ok, I’m just going to give it to you straight. No beating around the bush, you came here for the DuckDB Labs bought by AWS news right? Wondering what that means? What does it mean for DuckDB? What is DuckDB Labs, even? Never fear, I got you boo. What is DuckDB Labs? This is a […]

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Writing Rust … by Hand. No LLMs.

I recently had a bit of a self-identity crisis; of course, it was tied to spending way too much time on social media. I do try to avoid the worst of it, got rid of Twitter (X) this year, and mostly stick to Substack, LinkedIn, YouTube, occasional Reddit, and Hacker News. Probably still too much. […]

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Solution > Problem.

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Cloudflare as a Data Platform? Yeah. No.

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Don’t say “I found a problem.” Say … “I found a problem, here’s a solution .. and proof.”

A few things have not changed in the age of AI, where the LLM has replaced 3/4 of the brain power of a whole generation of engineers who once found their meaning in the code they wrote. I mean, I hate to say it’s true, but a lot of folk should have been finding their […]

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What Happens When a Software Engineer Builds a Company Alone

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs: The Compute Nobody Asked For?

When AWS announced Lambda MicroVMs, I was genuinely excited. After years of incremental services and endless feature releases, it finally looked like AWS had built something that filled the awkward gap between Lambda and EC2. On paper, it sounded perfect. You get VM-level isolation, more memory, persistent state, and startup times measured in milliseconds, all […]

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