Andy taught me a lot about trolling. I also hear he's banned from every post office within 50 miles of Baltimore.
Ok now I need to know.
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
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#62Andy taught me a lot about trolling. I also hear he's banned from every post office within 50 miles of Baltimore.
Ok now I need to know.
Andy was a PhD student at Brown when I was an undergrad.
Once he hired a magician off of Craigslist for a departmental event. The guy showed up drunk and lost his bird in the building.
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#63Hi Andy, that’s very cool news. Will you be at the HPTS workshop in October?
What has been your experience with HPTS? It will be my first time presenting.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I “audited” CMU 15-445 in April 2026, a few months ago. I then applied to Azure Hyperscale DB team, and as my pitch to get hired I cold DM’d the hiring manager whatever I finished in the assignments (BPM, Concurrent B-tree, Transaction support etc). With that, I was able to get the interview although I ended up failing it. My lack of experience in C++ was probably one of the main reasons. Your course helped me stand…
Why did you think it was appropriate to nag the hiring manager while you finished a MOOC?
What's the hiring manager's job? Hiring people? Why would that be inappropriate?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I “audited” CMU 15-445 in April 2026, a few months ago. I then applied to Azure Hyperscale DB team, and as my pitch to get hired I cold DM’d the hiring manager whatever I finished in the assignments (BPM, Concurrent B-tree, Transaction support etc). With that, I was able to get the interview although I ended up failing it. My lack of experience in C++ was probably one of the main reasons. Your course helped me stand…
Why did you think it was appropriate to nag the hiring manager while you finished a MOOC?
I know it’s a troll, This was no MOOC. I didn’t even get a certificate.
I saw the job opening in the careers portal and just cold DM’d the HM. As to why I DM’d, what do I have to lose ? I was already working at MSFT in a different team. The worst that could happen was that he would just ignore the message. Also, I didn’t nag the HM, it was just one DM where I summarised the things I did in the course. He then asked me to send me my resume and that was it.
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Maybe only an OS can be close to how MUCH deep you can go with a DB engine. And I bet DB engines can go far than normal OS. You don't know how much is still waiting for somebody to try, and how much is not applied. And how many of that DBs are not even doing, because all are constrained be being "apps" with so poor interface (sql). Fun fact: Not exist a viable true relational DBs implemented, neither exist one with a…
At the risk of arguing about semantics (and not interesting database semantics) it seems half the commenters here think "deep tech" just means "like, technology you go really super DEEP into, like really dig into that DEEP DEEP HARDCORE TECHNOLOGY" but that's not what this term has historically meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_tech > Deep tech innovations are often radical and may create new markets or disrup…
>> It's not inventing the transistor or the integrated circuit.
Integrated circuit on its own isn't doing anything unless used for something. Better chips enable more use-cases, more electronics etc etc. Databases in similar way are enabling more applications for users. None of the apps or services we reliably use everyday at the scale (e.g. Google Search, Online shopping, Messaging) would not exist without solid storage software.
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#68I'm very curious about the convergence of the best in class fast OLAP products (StarRocks, ClickHouse) with Trino. It sounds like everybody is going for decoupled compute/storage, using S3 or similar as the storage layer, and thus forgoing colocated joins (ok I know ClickHouse joins suck)... So what does this mean for ingestion (and indexing)? Iceberg V3? Paimon? Bespoke ingestion through the DB engine to do the inde…
Opinionated take: ingestion should be treated as a streaming reorganization workload, separate from whatever a "database" is.
You do not even need to change the Iceberg spec, although you could. Just rejig things a bit to produce better statistics (think liquid clustering but on the write path). You still write the same dataset queried the same way, but automatically get better query performance. Workload owners should be able to decide the tier at which this streaming reorganization happens: they know their data staging and bandwidth constraints the best.
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#70Andy, go ahead and correct the https://dbdb.io/db/bigquery
How did you come to the conclusion that BigQuery's data model is "Document / XML" :joy:
This entry is not only wrong, it's way outdated, therefore misinforming. I'm wondering about the overall quality of this dbdb.io database at large.