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Thank you for speaking!

Astroturfing?

> EDIT: it’s possible you might be preempting the downweight because you’re including a screenshot with all of your links. I.e. the downweight only happens if twitter shows the expando for an exter…

I don't say this whatsoever to show off but just as an observer of the system: when I tweet about a new blog post I write which includes the link to the post (not in a followup tweet), the single…

Alex, the CEO of Redpanda, responded. https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796593469743620444 …

A bunch of the people in my groups have been college students fwiw. It's been a complete mix of young people and experienced people. Doing it over the internet helps you cast the wide net. When y…

My only recommendation is Designing Data Intensive Applications. I agree with you that most recommended books are so-so.

Yes I'll keep adding people until at least this weekend when the first chapter discussion starts.

Mostly just posting on Twitter I think. LinkedIn, Discord, and my mailing list to a lesser degree.

I have been lucky in not needing to moderate basically anything. I thought I'd have to do some moderation. So, luckily, no I don't think so.

I thought the second half was better than the first half! Alex Petrov was in the reading group that time. Funnily, if I recall correctly, he felt the first half was better, in part, because he wrote i…

> the "Intro email" Basically a condensed version of this blog post. :)

I want to but I also got stressed out considering it because of other stuff ([0, 1]) going on. In the meantime you can come to NYC Systems [0] or the NYC Systems Coffee Club [1]! There's also Eri…

In person I did biweekly (fortnightly) and that seemed like a fair frequency. Virtually though there's a new discussion started every week.

Hello! Happy to take questions.

The paper had an interesting history being paywalled since publication until just now. https://twitter.com/AlexMillerDB/status/1795736817922417049 …