Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

the tragedy is we are gonna have a generation of "engineers" (if we can call them engineers) who won't know how to properly use tools such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, FoundationDB etc.

excellent db's meant for very specific use cases. abused by resume driven mercenaries - but used with precision by missionaries.

Adding ACID to Cassandra sounds very interesting, will be curious to read more about that.

I find it unsettling that every developer is asked for their opinion on LLMs and vibing, because of the dynamic it sets up with the pace of change in AI systems: if they give specifics about things that their experience shows LLMs can and cannot do, those are out of date immediately after publication, if not already at interview time, but if they are vague, it sounds like they have no experience with it, but also if they note the curve and try to adjust for those things, they come off like marketing for frontier orgs and it's still going to be laughable in six months or a year.

If you want to make the interview about that, fine -- there's lots of material and interest. If the interview isn't primarily about that, don't lay this rhetorical trap for the interviewee.

Branimir is an engineer's engineer. Excellent choice.