A bunch of things I find myself repeatedly referring to in various discussions!

Querying Parquet with Millisecond Latency

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/12/26/querying-parquet-with-millisecond-latency/

Presto on AWS at Twilio - Lesson Learned and Optimization

https://prestodb.io/blog/2022/12/28/presto-at-twilio/

Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazons-exabyte-scale-migration-from-apache-spark-to-ray-on-amazon-ec2/

Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing

https://maximebeauchemin.medium.com/functional-data-engineering-a-modern-paradigm-for-batch-data-processing-2327ec32c42a

Vector search using only Parquet and DataFusion

https://blog.xiangpeng.systems/posts/vector-search-with-parquet-datafusion/

I spent 8 hours learning Parquet. Here’s what I discovered

https://vutr.substack.com/p/the-overview-of-parquet-file-format

Is Data Modeling Dead?

https://www.confessionsofadataguy.com/is-data-modeling-dead/

The Grug Brained Developer

https://grugbrain.dev/

URL Pattern API - Web APIs | MDN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL_Pattern_API

Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell

https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html

Faster Dashboards with Multi-Column Approximate Sorting

https://duckdb.org/2025/06/06/advanced-sorting-for-fast-selective-queries

clickhouse-local | ClickHouse Docs

https://clickhouse.com/docs/operations/utilities/clickhouse-local

Get your work recognized: write a brag document

https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

Aider: Using uv as an installer

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/aider-using-uv-as-an-installer/

MSU MTMC-16

https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu/emulator.html

Consider SQLite

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

Tips & Caveats — Litestream

https://litestream.io/tips/

Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer

https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as

Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite | Wafris

https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite

Store images in SQLite

https://github.com/miguel-aragon/Store-images-in-SQLite

Navigating the history — Jujutsu for everyone

https://jj-for-everyone.github.io/navigate.html

High Performance Git

https://gitperf.com/