Markus Winand's Recent LinkedIn Posts

”Complexity isn't a sign of maturity. Simplicity is.“

Impressive, yet practically useless. After reading the linked article, this is my resume about the new C compiler (almost) entirely built by AI within two weeks consuming token worth $20.000. This article looks behind the marketing and benchmarks the compilation as well as the compiled output against GCC (also SQL…

“We don't have a scaling problem. We have an assumption problem.” Exactly. During the NoSQL hype I used to say that those systems solve problems everybody would like to have - but hardly anyone actually has.

Impressive, yet practically useless. After reading the linked article, this is my resume about the new C compiler (almost) entirely built by AI within two weeks consuming token worth $20.000. This article looks behind the marketing and benchmarks the compilation as well as the compiled output against GCC (also SQL…

What does this query return? SELECT 1 AS a FROM (VALUES (1), (2)) t(a) GROUP BY a One or two rows?

But first of all: triple check traditional tuning. Indexing, making better use of SQL features. Let’s not skip these options.