All Things DistributedAug 4, 20261 min read

On building scalable control planes

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite...

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The oldest architecture in computing

A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest...

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AllAug 26, 2026

DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement...

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