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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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...
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Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer — Honestly? This hit different. Phil breaks down the job ...
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How uv got so fast — This one hit different because everyone’s been saying “uv is fast because Rust” but the real sto...
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Last year I wrote about hitting 130 hours of working out. I ended that note with a line I repeated three times: “I’m ...
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life — This hit different. The distinction between thin desires (scrolling, checking not...
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SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing — This is one of those “why didn’t I know about this sooner?” mome...
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I’ve been following CMU’s 15-445/645 Database Systems course lately, trying to fill some gaps in my low-level systems...
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Surviving Long-Running Projects — A nice reality check on how grueling big projects can be. The author basically says...
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No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive — AI does not make engineers ten times more productive because much ...
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It feels silly to write just another blogpost about how to transition to a leadership role. Hopefully this is not a p...
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Thrive in obscurity — Creative success often starts in obscurity, with many creators spending years sharing their wor...
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Original article: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/query-booster-how-tinybird-optimizes-table-schemas-for-you A cus...
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? — The idea of making advertising illegal may sound silly but couldn’t agree more...
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Less ceremony, more shipping — Tinybird introduces their new deployment tool, which simplifies data schema changes fo...
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It’s been a while since the last time I published a post with the list of articles I’ve read. This one contains the h...