Reynold Xin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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But the fastest way to support those use cases tend to be hacked around abstractions that were initially created that were not for those use cases.
And then, but you can kind of support them more or less okay.
And before you know it, after 10 years of organic evolution that way,
it becomes a gigantic pile of shit.
But that includes Databricks.
And very, very few company or very few systems, I think, have the gut to say, let's go start from scratch.
Let's go back to the drawing board, the design.
Knowing everything we know today, after a decade of workloads and probably billions in revenue, let's attempt to rewrite it from scratch and actually make sure it will work.
And then we can support all of those use cases.
So we started doing that.
But it's a very ambitious project.
By the way, you can search on Wikipedia.
There's this thing called second system syndrome.
Our second system effect.
Every developer must know what a second system is.
It's basically, you build your first thing and it works out great.
And the second one is bound to fail because you become too ambitious.
And then you ask so many requirements.
And it turned out it's not perfect.
And then they start failing, and your two ambitious never launch, and you get killed.
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