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Evan Chan

@Evanfchan

Big data, distributed systems, telemetry hacker. Photographer. Traveler. A’s, Raiders. #rustlang http://instagram.com/platypus.arts

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Most people don’t understand the difference between Message Queues and Pub Sub. They are different systems meant for different use cases powered by different data structures. Pub-Sub systems like Kafka are powered by the Log data structure. Message Queues like RabbitMQ and SQS…

BdKozlovski's tweet image. Most people don’t understand the difference between Message Queues and Pub Sub.

They are different systems meant for different use cases powered by different data structures.

Pub-Sub systems like Kafka are powered by the Log data structure.

Message Queues like RabbitMQ and SQS…

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Databricks dropped a paper that basically says "Kafka sucks". It's titled "Understanding the Limitations of Pubsub Systems" and was released this year in May. It argues that modern pub-sub systems: ❌ fail to achieve their goal of truly decoupling writes and readers ❌ violate…

BdKozlovski's tweet image. Databricks dropped a paper that basically says "Kafka sucks".

It's titled "Understanding the Limitations of Pubsub Systems" and was released this year in May. It argues that modern pub-sub systems:

❌ fail to achieve their goal of truly decoupling writes and readers
❌ violate…

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BREAKING: 95 House Democrats including Hakeem Jeffries just voted to pass the GOP-led House resolution to condemn socialism proving once and for all the Democratic party is a capitalist party. It is past time for socialists and socialist organizations to break from this party.

ProudSocialist's tweet image. BREAKING: 95 House Democrats including Hakeem Jeffries just voted to pass the GOP-led House resolution to condemn socialism proving once and for all the Democratic party is a capitalist party. It is past time for socialists and socialist organizations to break from this party.

Ok my conclusion so far on AI coding. Cursor still has the best UI for integrating with agents. Composer is by far the fastest at refactoring and coding tasks. Claude is preferable for design tasks where actual intelligence and conversation etiquette is important.


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Why Redis is Single-Threaded (and why that makes it fast) You check your 32-core server and Redis seems to fully utilize only one core. This looks inefficient, so why is Redis still one of the fastest in-memory databases in the world? 1./ The real bottleneck isn’t usually the…


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It would have been better if named .or_panic() People will think twice before using it

AstraKernel's tweet image. It would have been better if named .or_panic()

People will think twice before using it

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🚨 14-YEAR-OLD’S RESPONSE TO MEGYN KELLY’S EPSTEIN COMMENTS JUST SHOOK THE INTERNET A 14-year-old girl named Eloise just uploaded a video that’s blowing up across social media and has triggered one of the biggest debates of the week. She says she wasn’t even planning to speak…


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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.


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Let that sink in.

TheSaviour's tweet image. Let that sink in.

Star trails over Banff.

Evanfchan's tweet image. Star trails over Banff.

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The next chapter for my @TimescaleDB course is now live. Its the first one of the performance chapters. You'll learn why rows physically sorted on disk by a specific column is much faster - and how to achieve it. Without. Any. Effort! sqlfordevs.com/books+courses/…


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When you look at people who appear to get « big » things done, like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, or the current Chinese leadership… it is easy to conclude that a strong top-down push is responsible for the progress. But that is incorrect in my view. Let us focus on Elon Musk and his…


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All the analysts forever writing about OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google are missing the real story that already happened. 80% of startups pitching Andreessen Horowitz are running on Chinese open-source models. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Chinese models like DeepSeek that cost 214x…


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A list of Palestinian children murdered by Israel. This isn't a list. It's a cemetery in text form. Each name is a Palestinian child murdered by Israel with Western funding and diplomatic cover


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From a friend overseas: “Apologies if this comes across in a dickish way, but coming from a country with free healthcare including prescriptions, free college and university at world class institutions, 35 days paid holidays etc., I find it so sad that Americans get completely…


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Hospitals that get bought out by private equity see a 13% increase in ER deaths. That's thousands of people a year who die needlessly so billionaire private equity bums can get even richer. It's time to take capitalism out of healthcare.

anthonyzenkus's tweet image. Hospitals that get bought out by private equity see a 13% increase in ER deaths. That's thousands of people a year who die needlessly so billionaire private equity bums can get even richer. It's time to take capitalism out of healthcare.

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President of the World Jewish Congress calls for new censorship laws in U.S schools. He says “antisemitism” is thinking that “Jews control the government and the media.” To prove they dont, he wants to control the government and the media…


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Angus: You know, every article I’ve read about the tourism numbers talks about “Canada’s uncertainty with the tariff wars.” No. Canadians hate Donald Trump. They see not going to the US as an act of patriotism. This is something the U.S. tourism industry is beginning to…


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What can I say? I just have a thing for the night sky. #astro #nightsky #ThePhotoHour #photo #photography #art #nature

Evanfchan's tweet image. What can I say? I just have a thing for the night sky.  #astro #nightsky #ThePhotoHour #photo #photography #art #nature

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