Ray Jenkins

Ray Jenkins

@ramond.bsky.social

Distributed systems, databases, networking and infrastructure. Skateboarding, making music, reading and art. Building https://rotel.dev previously: Snowflake, Segment, Librato.

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Anyone else who grew up in the 80s remember having paper napkins every night at dinner. What the heck was that all about? Every meal was like a cookout.

If you dig observability, ClickHouse, distributed tracing, and performance engineering peep this post from me, @mike.heffner.io, and the ClickHouse Eng team.

ClickHouse@clickhouse.com

Can you 4x OTel thoughput with Rust? Meet Rotel: pushing 460K spans/sec/core (vs 130k) How? By diving deep into Rust's threading model, resolving allocator lock contention, and reengineering JSON serialization with RowBinary encoding to stream data efficiently into ClickHouse.

How many years do you think until we see the first low cost “AI only” insurance plans replacing high-deductible health plans? Going to need to buy a lot of united healthcare stock just to cover your PPO.

If you go to a fancy restaurant and they have fried chicken on the menu, you should probably order it. The head chef has likely seen some shit and now just wants to make people happy.