Articles by tanelpoder
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Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)

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SmithDB, the data layer for agent observability (langchain.com)

3

Test-Driving the Lance Lakehouse Format in DuckDB (duckdb.org)

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AI Agents Under EU Law (arxiv.org)

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Use Redis with SQL (redis.io)

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pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron (github.com/dventimisupabase)

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Performance Analysis of AI Query Approximation Using Lightweight Proxy Models (arxiv.org)

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SanDisk open-sources accelerated SSD pre-conditioning algorithm (blocksandfiles.com)

2

Data Lineage in DuckDB: How Duck_lineage Tracks Every Query (ilum.cloud)

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Enabling Multi-Region Data Systems at Notion (notion.com)

2

Sampling-Based NDV Estimation in Iceberg Tables (eng-floe.github.io)

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The Urgency of Interpretability (darioamodei.com)

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Use whisper.cpp within DuckDB to translate / transpile speech to text (github.com/tobilg)

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Ghostscope: DWARF-aware eBPF tracer for source-level userspace tracing (github.com/swananan)

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Big O for MySQL: Why the Same Query Gets Slow at Scale (anotherboringtechblog.com)

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OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)

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Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Google Spanner (cloud.google.com)

2

The New GizmoSQL iOS App – DuckDB (duckdb.org)

3

Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)

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GitHub uses eBPF to detect circular dependencies in deployment tooling (github.blog)

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Why Postgres wants NVMe on the hot path, and S3 everywhere else (thenewstack.io)

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OpenAI Says Codex Agents Are Running Its Data Platform Autonomously (forbes.com/sites/victordey)

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DuckLake 1.0 on MotherDuck (motherduck.com)

2

What Are Skiplists Good For? (antithesis.com)

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SQL That Reads Between the Lines (query.farm)

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Agentic Reasoning in Practice: Making Sense of Structured and Unstructured Data (databricks.com)

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kpod-metrics: eBPF-based pod-level kernel metrics collector for Kubernetes (github.com/pjs7678)

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Stability Sim (stability-sim.systems)

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Reduced timing overhead for EXPLAIN ANALYZE with RDTSC in Postgres 19 (pganalyze.com)

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The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight (theregister.com)

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What, exactly, is the GIL? (finbarr.ca)

2

An extension for DuckDB, which captures lineage events for executed queries (github.com/ilum-cloud)

1

Checkpoints, Write Storms, and You (pgedge.com)

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Zero Autovacuum_cost_delay, Write Storms, and You (ardentperf.com)

3

Your Harness, Your Memory (langchain.com)

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Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)

2

Fast CASPaxos (reubenbond.github.io)

1

WAL as a Data Distribution Layer (richyen.com)

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eBPF-based PostgreSQL wait event tracer using hardware watchpoints (github.com/dmitrynfomin)

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Not all index scans are equal: How we cut query latency by over 99% (datadoghq.com)

2

Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals Course (github.com/dbatutuebingen)

1

PCI Express over Fiber and a PCIe analyzer [video] (youtube.com)

2

How uv Solves Dependencies So Fast (pydevtools.com)

2

Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents (rilldata.com)

2

Graphify: An AI skill for turning any folder into a queryable knowledge graph (github.com/safishamsi)

2

An In-Depth Study of Filter-Agnostic Vector Search on PostgreSQL (arxiv.org)

5

"Good Taste" Is Just Experience (terriblesoftware.org)

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The frontline is like Terminator: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war (theguardian.com)

4

Swarm: Manage a Swarm of Coding Agents (github.com/penberg)

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Global Spam Prevention for Open Source (fossier.io)

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TigerFS: Mount PostgreSQL as a Filesystem (github.com/timescale)

1

Open Sourcing of Unity Catalog Business Semantics (databricks.com)

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rpg: A modern psql-compatible Postgres terminal and TUI written in Rust (github.com/nikolays)

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Data Inlining in DuckLake: Unlocking Streaming for Data Lakes – DuckLake (ducklake.select)

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Dispenso: A high-performance C++ thread pool and parallel algorithms library (github.com/facebookincubator)

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pg_plan_alternatives: Tracing PostgreSQL Query Plan Alternatives Using eBPF (jnidzwetzki.github.io)

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DuckLineage Extension for DuckDB (github.com/ilum-cloud)

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d-HNSW: A High-Performance Vector Search Engine on Disaggregated Memory (arxiv.org)

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Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems (codeberg.org/aenertia)

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AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust (github.com/davidhavoc)

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Antithesis Skills for Agents (antithesis.com)

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OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha (opentelemetry.io)

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Best practices tips for ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)

2

Database Schema Migrations in 2026 – Survey (ardentperf.com)

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Out-of-Cancel: A Vulnerability Class Rooted in Workqueue Cancellation APIs (v4bel.github.io)

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So where are all the AI apps? (answer.ai)

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io_uring, libaio performance across Linux kernels and an unexpected IOMMU trap (ydb.tech)

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PostgreSQL 19 will have pg_plan_advice contrib module (query hints) (depesz.com)

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Oracle Databases now have declarative SQL assertions (oracle.com)

3

Single Packet Authentication with eBPF (github.com/aminassadi)

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Portless replaces port numbers with stable .localhost URLs for local development (port1355.dev)

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PostgreSQL extension to set connection to read-only mode (for AI agents and MCP) (github.com/danolivo)

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BigQuery Graph Series Tutorial: Build a Graph from Unstructured Data (medium.com/google-cloud)

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Connecting the Dots in a JFR Recording (jbachorik.github.io)

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When Did That Hotspot Happen? (jbachorik.github.io)

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Instrumenting Claude Code: OTel Logging for Detection Engineers (brandontlyons.substack.com)

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My custom agent used 87% fewer tokens when I gave it Skills for its MCP tools (seroter.com)

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BigQuery Graph Series – Query and Visualize Your Graph (medium.com/google-cloud)

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Pg_10046: Oracle SQL_trace inspired SQL and wait event tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/dmitrynfomin)

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Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Schema Changes in Azure SQL Database [pdf] (vldb.org)

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Can AI Agents Agree? (arxiv.org)

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Useful queries to analyze PostgreSQL lock trees (a.k.a. lock queues) (postgres.ai)

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AWS Aurora DSQL Playground (demo.aws)

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bpfviewer: A tool for disassembling, debugging and visualizing BPF object files (github.com/tsint)

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Testing the Datadog Explain Plan Visualizer with Oracle Execution Plans (tanelpoder.com)

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MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling (infoq.com)

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Your Disk Just Lied to You – and Your Checksums Said Everything Was Fine (medium.com/jingyuzhou)

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Cilium Up and Running book released (including free eBook) (isovalent.com)

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Turbocharging PostgreSQL Listen/Notify with 40x Boost (robins.in)

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RocksDB development finds a CPU bug (rocksdb.org)

2

pg_ash: Active Session History for PostgreSQL wait event sampling (github.com/nikolays)

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pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) (vibhorkumar.wordpress.com)

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Bluebox Docker: A Living PostgreSQL Sample Database (softwareandbooz.com)

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Zvec is a lightweight, fast, in-process vector database (github.com/alibaba)

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Performance and reliability pitfalls of eBPF [video,pdf] (fosdem.org)

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Data Modeling Is Changing (ssp.sh)

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Amdahl's Law and Its Complement [pdf] (perfdynamics.com)

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Mdserve 1.0: Markdown Preview for Coding Agents (jrfernandez.com)

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MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts (github.com/vgrippa)

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A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support (github.com/lance0)