Rolly

AI, Agentic Engineering, and agency Lately, articles are popping up exclaiming that the coding agent is dead. Others are claiming that software engineering itself is going away. Certainly, Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing this hard, as ...

I promised myself I would write more. Call this baby steps: open.substack.com/pub/rollyfor...

Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data chang...

𝗔 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗗𝗕

If you want to know what makes DuckDB so fast, check out the new blog post by Tim Ebergen on how the "optimizers play a silent, but vital role when using a database": duckdb.org/2024/11/14/o...