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Chris Riccomini
Personal blog · materializedview.iodatasystemsprogramming
Chris Riccomini writes Materialized View, a personal blog at materializedview.io about data, systems and programming. Since 2023, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Riccomini's posts on streaming and distributed data systems, including Kafka's protocol, Flink's history, Arrow/DataFusion streaming SQL, and Substrait query plans. One commenter calls his posts great reads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software infrastructure hot takes, projects, papers, developer interviews, and deep dives. Brought to you by Chris Riccomini.
Most-linked posts?
- Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29
- S3 Is the New SFTP, or, how to get data to customers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-16
- From Samza to Flink: A Decade of Stream Processing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
- MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
- AI IDEs Need Moats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
- Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-25
- Virtual Machines Are Getting Better2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
- Everything You Need to Know About Incremental View Maintenance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-18
- Nimble and Lance: The Parquet Killers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-13
- The New Era of Flexible Infrastructure Deployment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-27
What Hacker News says?
Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol Apache Kafka is an aging open source project. It's time to accept that Kafka's protocol is what matters. ( https://materializedview.io/p/ce-nest-pas-un-kafka )
Comment linking /p/ce-nest-pas-un-kafka
on “Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems”Submitted S3 is showing its age as a story · 260 points
HN discussionNice work on the performance boost :). How does it compare with things like: 1. https://github.com/bytewax/bytewax 2. https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway I recently read this article ( https://materializedview.io/p/from-samza-to-flink-a-decade-o... ) about Flink and it commented on Flink grew to fit all of these different use cases (applications, analytics and ETL) with disjoint requirements that Confluent built k…
Comment linking /p/from-samza-to-flink-a-decade-of-stream
on “Building a streaming SQL engine with Arrow and DataFusion”Submitted Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care as a story · 121 points
HN discussionThe wasm decoder thing was also done in Anyblox. https://github.com/AnyBlox https://gienieczko.com/anyblox-paper Has nimble/velox had any better luck lately? I forget what stories someone shared, but, it seemed to have such big intent, then real trouble actually getting released. I want to say someone was saying the lawyers ended up not letting a lot of the work get released. Nimble is the one competitor benchmarked…
Comment linking /p/nimble-and-lance-parquet-killers
on “F3”Submitted Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea as a story · 101 points
HN discussionBeen loving your posts Chris! The suggestion here sounds awesome. I'd love a little more in depth example of what might go across the wire- the one example was probably more than enough for many but I was still curious technically what these query plans structurally looked like. Kind of interesting in light of the previous submission, which I truly loved, on the diassbly of the data stack. Great post, and about dece…
Comment linking /p/databases-are-falling-apart
on “Databases Should Speak Substrait”Submitted MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Need to Know About Incremental View Maintenance as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted S3 Is the New SFTP, or, how to get data to customers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Fast Can Java Parse 1B Rows of Temperature Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted DuckDB Is Not a Data Warehouse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Extensions or Protocols: Architecture Roulette as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted S3 Is the New SFTP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Machines Are Getting Better as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Samza to Flink: A Decade of Stream Processing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kafka: The End of the Beginning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI IDEs Need Moats as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure Vendors Are in a Tough Spot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Machines Are Getting Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Era of Flexible Infrastructure Deployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Are Commodities. Now What? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Samza to Flink: A Decade of Stream Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databases Should Speak Substrait as a story · 2 points
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