Thanks to Boris Novikov, who pointed me in the PAX direction in the first place and followed up with many insightful technical discussions. I’m grateful for all his time and the great conversations we’ve had and continue to have. To dive…

AI coding assistants are powerful but only as good as their understanding of your codebase. When we pointed AI agents at one of Meta’s large-scale data processing pipelines – spanning four repositories, three languages, and over 4,100…
Hardware upgrades help IIoT query speeds but barely move ingest capacity. The bottleneck is I/O, not compute. Here's the data to prove it.
Introduction Every so often, I talk to someone working in data analytics who wants access to production data, or at least a snapshot of it. Sometimes, they tell me about their ETL setup, which takes hours to refresh and can be brittle,…