I'm Still Here! Let's Catch Up.

Chris provides updates on several ongoing projects including work on the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann, focusing on batch and streaming chapters. SlateDB development continues with new features like serializable snapshot isolation and transaction support, plus Python and Go bindings. ZeroFS, built on SlateDB, offers POSIX-compliant network filesystem implementations with impressive performance benchmarks. Materialized View Capital is 75% deployed across various infrastructure startups including Bauplan, ParadeDB, and Tigris.