Jordi Villar

https://jordivillar.com

I 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.

Jordi Villar

Entries

  • 2025W49

    SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing — This is one of those “why didn’t I know about this sooner?” mome...

  • 64-bit Misalignment

    I’ve been following CMU’s 15-445/645 Database Systems course lately, trying to fill some gaps in my low-level systems...

  • 2025W38

    Surviving Long-Running Projects — A nice reality check on how grueling big projects can be. The author basically says...

  • 2025W31

    No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive — AI does not make engineers ten times more productive because much ...

  • Am I Becoming Irrelevant?

    It feels silly to write just another blogpost about how to transition to a leadership role. Hopefully this is not a p...

  • 2025W23

    Thrive in obscurity — Creative success often starts in obscurity, with many creators spending years sharing their wor...

  • Query Booster: How Tinybird optimizes table schemas for you

    Original article: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/query-booster-how-tinybird-optimizes-table-schemas-for-you A cus...

  • 2025W14

    What If We Made Advertising Illegal? — The idea of making advertising illegal may sound silly but couldn’t agree more...

  • 2025W11

    Less ceremony, more shipping — Tinybird introduces their new deployment tool, which simplifies data schema changes fo...

  • 2025W09

    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...

  • 130 hours

    For the last few years, especially after the pandemic forced us to switch to remote work, I’ve been searching for way...