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Is this an annually recurring conf ? I practically just cycled past it, without realizing it 🙈

I think it moves each year

Now opening, with Tigerbeetle CEO Joran Greef explaining the history of the conference (they wanted to go windsurfing) and the purpose (systems broadly— distributed, mental, long term, etc). "Is software engineering, or is it more than engineering: art? It's both."

------- "DuckLake - The SQL-Powered Lakehouse Format for the Rest of Us", @hannes.muehleisen.org, #sd25 DuckLake was released just a month or two ago. Loved databases for a long time, his first car had license plate "SQL 1337". Confession: gave a talk where he said "Distributed? NO."

DuckDB is a database made in Amsterdam. "Gives us great pride, because usually software projects come from somewhere else." What is a lakehouse? Basically a cross between a database and a datalake. Originally, databases put data storage and compute on a single node, which is efficient...