Jordi Villar
https://jordivillar.comI build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.
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Ten years of ClickHouse in open source — The detail that stuck is the monthly drill where they deliberately shut down...
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I didn’t expect The Bear to make me uncomfortable. Not because of the kitchen chaos or the screaming, and there’s ple...
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Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading f...
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There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted — The RSS analogy is what makes the whole thing click. Counting Blues...
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Software Is Made Between Commits — The claim that stuck with me: “the conversation that generates the code is becomin...
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A few weeks ago I read Modal’s post on truly serverless GPUs. They describe getting GPU container starts from many mi...
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We’ve made the world too complicated — The piece names something I keep circling back to — most of us operate daily w...
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I never really thought about how Shazam works. You hold your phone up, it tells you the song, you move on. Then I rea...
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I used to roll my eyes at people who started a new sport and immediately bought all the gear. Day one of running and ...
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The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed — What makes this story land is the contrast. The Singularity doesn’t get stoppe...
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These days I’ve found myself reading about hardware shortage and how RAM, disk, and NAND manufacturers have all their...
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Currently I’m between jobs. Nothing special, a lot of people go between jobs. After working for several years on a fa...
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50...
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Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona — A potential acquisition dies because a vegan exec unknowingly eats mayo ...
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I worked at Tinybird for 4 years, 2 months, and 21 days. It’s been an incredible experience that taught me a lot abou...
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My AI Adoption Journey — The most practical thing here is the “reproduce your own work” phase: doing tasks manually a...
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Automatic Programming — The distinction antirez makes here finally gave me language for something I’ve been fumbling ...
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I’m addicted to being useful — This hit close. The idea that some of us are fundamentally wired to solve problems, an...
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I wanted to understand buffer pool replacement policies better. So I asked Claude to run an experiment: implement LRU...
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My entire strategy is to do the work only I can do. Work that can’t be taught. Work that requires some unique combina...