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Patrick McFadin

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Principal Technical Strategist @ IBM Apache Cassandra Committer. ASF Member. All things data, distributed systems, and building at scale. I am slowly replacing myself with AI. See if you can figure out when.

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API Consolidation

API Consolidation

Unified Gateway, Object Storage, Analytics

Unified Gateway, Object Storage, Analytics

Our @patrickmcfadin.bsky.social on the next 10 years of Cassandra ๐Ÿงฟ

12.09.2025 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

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photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

photo from Uber https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361634119878950912

Yesterdayโ€™s meetup was a tremendous success ๐ŸŽ‰
Uber welcomed the vibrant Cassandra community to our

Sunnyvale office, 80+ attendees from diverse backgrounds & experiences.

The energy in the room was incredible. A big win for Cassandra, and a big win for open source!

14.08.2025 10:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™d say we are. Besides RL everything that is stretching the current models, weโ€™re still seeing a solid leveling off. I still predict the next really big just will be when we have something besides tensors.

03.08.2025 20:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Cassandra has the Monopoly on ACID Transactions YouTube video by DataStax

Oh yes. We have it on the Tubes as well: www.youtube.com/live/n1plZtA...

17.07.2025 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m pretty sure thatโ€™s the only place they show up. Are you going to be at Google next??

21.03.2025 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like you do! You keep running into that rhino all over the place!

20.03.2025 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
screenshot from https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

screenshot from https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Cassandra 5's building momentum is showing up ๐Ÿ’ฅ
We got no plans on slowing down either ๐Ÿ˜Ž
db-engines.com/en/ranking

03.03.2025 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Engagement == $$. Even with bots.

02.12.2024 18:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mastering Apache Cassandraยฎ โ€“ย Thursday 5th Dec, 2024

Mastering Apache Cassandraยฎ โ€“ย Thursday 5th Dec, 2024

Hosting with two of my favourite colleagues, tune in for an information rich webinar next week (Thurs 5th Dec).

It'll be a fireside chat over typical challenges users face with @cassandra.apache.org

For devs and ops. Register (or watch on youtube).
app.sequel.io/event/907427...

28.11.2024 19:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Current State of LLMs: Riding the Sigmoid Curve The AI community is embracing the sigmoid curve โ€” that after initial rapid growth, progress starts to level off as we hit natural limitations.

Just so I have something interesting to post on BlueSky. Hereโ€™s some of my latest work and writing.

Thesis: LLM capabilities are leveling off. What can we do with that information?

thenewstack.io/the-current-...

02.12.2024 15:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ASF Members, let me know who you are!

go.bsky.app/6RDf1ik

20.11.2024 17:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Catching up on C* newsโ€ฆ
Here's a list of some of the things you might have missed.

๐Ÿงต 1/x

17.11.2024 21:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0