This is followup to https://blog.achals.com/some-thoughts-on-building-realtime-compute-at-tecton/ - focused on how we built a platform for user code execution at Tecton. If you haven't read it yet - you probably should, cause this post will make more sense if you're caught up. 😄 We left
I learned recently that Tecton was getting acquired by Databricks, and with that I also I started to think about the cool work that my team and I worked on that we never got to blog about. Seeing as how it's unlikely that we'll see a
At $DAYJOB, we use a lot Apache Flink for all our stream processing needs. I've used Apache Spark at previous employers and found a lot things very interesting about Flink and figured that writing down my thoughts may help me how I feel about it 😄. What is Flink?
We just visited Mesa Verde National Park and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado over the weekend. These two were special for my family, because my wife and I had had visited the other two parks in Colorado, Rocky Mountain and Great Sand Dunes, way back in
19th April 2025 was my last day at Tecton, after 5 years. Tecton has always been the strongest team that I have ever had the good fortune to work with. The amount of depth and empathy that everyone has demonstrated has been extremely impressive. This team has built incredibly complex
I just finished re-reading The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for the first time after kids, and man, what a gut punch of a book. The thing I found most singular about it is how viscerally it portrays the anxieties and fears of being an adult, specifically being responsible for your
I spoke at Rootconf 2024 recently on the work that I've been up to at Tecton over the last couple of years. Not sure how great my slides/presentation was, but I'm extremely proud of the work that my team and I put into this part
I recently read a post by Will Larson that really spoke to me and I wanted to share: [Work On What Matters](https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters) In Tech, I've found that there's a great deal of freedom in the day-to-day of what problems you can
I'm already beginning to fail my promise of more regular blogging; I think a pretty good way to break through the activation energy is to have shorter posts about relatively uncontroversial topics. To that point - [The Sandman: Endless Nights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman:_Endless_
This has been a pretty strange (mostly miserable) year, all thigs considered. But one silver lining out of it has been my relationship with social media - specifically the complete abolishment of the aforementioned relationship. After a brief obsession with "being caught up with news" in the middle
Mom continues a great writing streak, this time talking about the experience about being a doctor in India. The things she writes about definitely resonate with me, having seen both parents taking their duties as healers very seriously throughout my childhood. [Is it easy being a doctor?](https://medium.com/
My mom wrote some good blog posts about her perspective on dealing with COVID, from the perspective of a doctor who's dealt with pandemics in the past, melded with the point of view of someone living through quarantine herself. I think they're pretty great, but I&