Bill for $895 for ER visit (the one that made me miss defcon this summer!)

Requested an itemized bill.

They still haven’t sent that! but instead, sent an “offer of settlement” that I pay *half* of the amount they claimed I owe.

Wow.

git branches have no rules

permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/branche…

Live streaming adventures - join me on @twitch twitch.tv/holdenkarau & YouTube - youtube.com/user/holdenkar…

I don't want to start a flame war here, but IMO it is a mistake to jump straight to distributed databases (and 90% of the content below is distributed databases) without first learning fundamentals on single node databases.

Here's my 10 things to understand about databases:…

I’m so excited for the space heater to arrive today for my room :)

Fuck the computers have figured out they should try and sell me cheese curds. Damn I miss poutine….

A thing I hear surprisingly often from folks in any product category I write about is “I am so glad this exists! Now I have something to send to candidates to explain what we do and why it is interesting.”

a) Thrilled to help.
b) But every company should *just go and write that*

Training models with Pytorch is cool, but doing it in a distributed way is much cooler. I just finished the book and if you are interested in learning how Spark and Deep Learning frameworks can be combined, this is the book for you.

Amazing work Adi Polak 😍👏

Hey FOSDEM @[email protected] HPC friends I'm super excited to be making my return in February, come and join me for an exciting look at how we've been automating our Spark upgrades Netflix + the tooling we've created to catch the production issues before you see them :D

Change Data Feed (CDF) in #DeltaLake 3 is one of the least explored features but I'm closing the gap every code review ❤️

➡️ books.japila.pl/delta-lake-int…

There's still a lot to digest 🌝 LMK if there are any sources to help me out in the learning journey 🙏

This summer a whole bunch of wonderful Netflix data folks gathered and we shared the cool things we’ve been working on — I’m of course a little biased — but you should check them out netflixtechblog.com/our-first-netf… (including my talk on reliable data pipelines youtu.be/uWmJxbhI304?si…)

Check out some of my awesome co-workers talking about our journey from Hive to Apache Iceberg -- youtu.be/jMFMEk8jFu8?si… :D

Q: Why does Apache - The ASF have an Apache Attic full of read-only unmaintained projects?

A: To ensure every ASF software release is provided to the world in perpetuity, in case someone else wants to pickup the codebase again.

Explicitly marking #OpenSource as unmaintained is key! 🤩

I taught 3 #ApacheKafka #workshops this month and got lucky to be left with a few topics to explore deeper (pun intended) 😉

I could even teach #KRaft ! 🏆

If you wanna know what happens under the covers, head over to books.japila.pl/kafka-internal…

Enjoy! 👍

Want an even easier way to play with #llamacpp on your #M1 (or #M2 ) with #LLaVA 1.5 #multimodal #model fine-tuned on top of #Llama2 ? Download #llamafile , spin up the web UI, and I asked what were the components in the image.

Join me after work today for a bit of a different stream: setting up some of the graphics card(s) for model serving and then maybe packing for my mini vacation :)

Thanks, y'all❤️
While my initial tweet wasn't too serious, I believe organizing an event without an adequate presence of female speakers is a shame.
It's Thanksgiving, let's thank the inspiring women in tech. Join me in #WiTthankYou & discover new speakers, I'll start 👇