Last Week in Pony - July 27, 2025
Welcome to Last Week in Pony! It was a Guns n’ Roses morning here at Pony HQ as we were putting together this week’s Last Week in Pony for you. This week we have an update on the 0.60.0 release progress, with a major milestone achieved in Ponyup’s arm64 Windows support. We also have notes from our latest Office Hours session, which included discussions on electronics, distributed Pony applications, and high-throughput event processing.
0.60.0 Release Update¶
We merged Ponyup support for arm64 Windows this past week. That was a major hurdle to get over before we could release 0.60.0. There are still a number of items to finish up before and after the release, but we’re getting closer.
You can follow along on the release issue.
Items of Note¶
Office Hours¶
The people in the initial portion of this week’s Office Hours were myself, Niclas, and Red. Right before the end of the hour I could stay, Lucus joined us. However, he didn’t get his audio working until after I left. So what follows about the Lucus portion of Office Hours comes from quick notes that Red sent me.
The pre-Lucus portion included very little Pony talk and a lot of electronics discussion. Niclas showed off manufacturing equipment he has at home. It’s pretty impressive.
Red left the following notes for the Lucus portion:
Notes: I’ll do a full write-up in a bit:
Lucus asked about distributed Pony, Apache Kafka, and his use-case that could involve hundreds of thousands of events per second.
I talked about my integration with Carbon Black and pony where I processed >hundreds of thousands of events per second with pony not even breaking a sweat.
We gestured towards Wallaroo as a product that did this commercially.
A string of ponies.
A string of small towns as we head further north in Sweden.
What (if any) is the link between Verona and Pony, and what did/should each of them learn from each other.
Clearly, as you can tell, Red never got around to doing a full write-up. If you want to hear more about the Lucus portion of Office Hours, you’ll have to ask him.
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