Pat Patterson

@metadaddy.net

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Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @backblaze.bsky.social. Previously Citrix, StreamSets, Salesforce, Huawei, Sun Microsystems. Old tweets archived at @metadaddy-archive.bsky.social

Pat and BoDi
Pat Patterson, wearing a reproduction US Army M-51 fishtail parka, sitting on his 1979 Vespa 125 Primavera ET3 motor scooter.
Frontline Plus cat flea protection and Clear Care Plus contact lens solution in a Costco shopping cart
Dog in burning room meme with caption, “It works fine!”
Scene from Spinal Tap with guitarist Nigel Tufnell asking “What’s wrong with being sexy?”
Obi Wan Kenobi meme with text: Hadoop… Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
Obi Wan Kenobi meme with text: Hadoop… Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
Amazon upcoming deliveries page showing the compilation “Back To The Crossroads: The Roots Of Robert Johnson” arriving tomorrow by 10pm
Pokémon Go field research screen with three “Win a five-star or higher raid” tasks.
Goals: (Running) This year • 1,656.6 mi to go 93.4 mi / 1,750.0 mi run
Napkin with text “Southwest Airlines® was born on a napkin in 1971.” And a triangle with the vertices DALLAS, SAN ANTONIO and HOUSTON.
Title card on screen above the San Francisco Symphony orchestra: The Muppet Christmas Christmas Carol In concert, live to film
Pat Patterson’s very messy desk. Twin MacBook Pros with external monitors, and a whole lot of clutter
Denim-clad British boogie-rockers Status Quo
Bluesky chat settings Allow new messages from everyone/users I follow/no one
Nobody went out and did a survey about whether most credit card users would be willing to give up their frequent flyer miles in return for also losing the ability to dispute a transaction.
S3 Tables pricing example: You use a daily ETL job to pre-process data from different structured and unstructured sources and update an Apache Iceberg table in your table bucket once a day. This update creates 1,000 new data files with an average object size of 5 MB and 3 metadata files with an average object size of 10 KB. Your table’s users frequently perform queries on your dataset and generate 500,000 GET requests per month. To optimize query performance, you enable automatic compaction on S3 Tables. At the end of the month, your table is 1 TB in size with an average object size of 100 MB. This example uses the US-West (Oregon) AWS Region. Your charges would be calculated as follows: Amazon S3 Tables storage charge ($/GB) S3 Tables storage price is $0.0265 per GB for the first 50 TB per month Since you are storing 1 TB of data in your table, your charge would be: S3 Tables storage charge: 1 TB (1,024 GB) * $0.0265/GB = $27.14
Pat Patterson in a “Hello, Open Cloud” t-shirt, waiting outside a conference room door.
Max Out Finale Collection Challenge 2 completed
Pokémon Go Ultra Hero gold medal, awarded for defeating the Team GO Rocket Boss 20 times. Rewards: Giovanni gloves and shirts.
Pat Patterson and Karen Patterson with fall foliage in the background
Screenshot of an obvious bot account. “Susanna Turgenev” has a Chinese-name plus five digits handle.
Jobs recommended for you: Data Engineering Intern, Summer 2025