A pile of containers is not a shipment. A shipment is containers plus a manifest.Apache Iceberg is the manifest. It is not a file format, it is a table format: a metadata layer that records exactly which Parquet files make up a table at…
TimescaleDB continuous aggregates and late-arriving data: invalidation tracking, lookback windows, and the two offsets that prevent stale aggregate buckets.

One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an…
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature process impositions can derail teams, and…