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What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

Do away with partitions: topic partitions were crucial for scaling purposes when data was stored on node-local disks, but they are not required when storing data on effectively infinitely large object storage in the cloud. While partitions also provide ordering guarantees, this never struck me as overly useful from a client perspective. You either want to have global ordering of...
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages

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The Hitchhiker’s guide to Diskless Kafka

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Sandbox MCP: Enable LLMs to run ANY code safely

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Enterprise-grade natural language to SQL generation using LLMs: Balancing accuracy, latency, and scale

This blog post is co-written with Renuka Kumar and Thomas Matthew from Cisco. Enterprise data by its very nature spans diverse data domains, such as security, finance, product, and HR. Data across these domains is often maintained across disparate data environments (such as Amazon Aurora, Oracle, and Teradata), with each managing hundreds or perhaps thousands of tables to represent and...
A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL

A Principled Approach to Querying Data The rise of local-first web applications demands a rethinking of traditional client-server architectures. Users expect near-native responsiveness, even when offline. This necessitates efficient, client-side data processing, including search. The techniques presented in this article, while discussed in a local-first context, are equally applicable to server-side systems. We’ll explore a type-driven approach, leveraging...

A year of almost blogging

A year of almost blogging

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on December 28, 2018

2019 is around the corner and I am looking at how many blog posts I wrote this year and the number is a resounding zero.…

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Services and Aspects -when everyone is super no-one is

Services and Aspects -when everyone is super no-one is

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on March 7, 2017

For me, one of the telltale signs the whole microservices hoopla is a consultant marketing ploy is the whole microservices vs. monoliths thing – as…

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Microservices – it’s déjà vu all over again

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on December 19, 2016

I gave this presentation today @ SWSte 2016. Slides are available on slideshare: Microservices past and future – it's déjà vu all over again from…

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Big data in the cloud – welcome to cost oriented design

Big data in the cloud – welcome to cost oriented design

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on April 1, 2016

A couple of weeks ago I presented @ BDX2016 The slides are available on Slideshare Big data in the cloud – welcome to cost oriented…

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Don’t let your architecture become the new hardware

Don’t let your architecture become the new hardware

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on March 14, 2016

Yesterday I presented “Big data in the cloud – Welcome to cost oriented design” @ BDX2016 (slides are available here, and I think the video…

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