What’s Fivetran’s story, anyway? This is a wild work history, lol
I’m happy about the dbt/Fivetran merger. Ultimately, it’s better for the data community to have one big ETL company headed (hopefully) towards an IPO rather than two smaller ones stumbling along, hoping Databricks or Snowflake finally decide to acquire them.
the problem with being a data vendor is you only get to play with the shiny toys you’re building, not everyone else’s. super pumped to be back to being a practitioner soon 😀
Cube did a reorganization, which sadly eliminated my role from the company as a solutions engineer in pre-sales. I am open to work in solutions engineering, devrel, product marketing, and possibly other roles. DM if you have interest or roles that you could refer me to.
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currently using ai agents to build tests for ai agents
a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
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lots of people on LinkedIn etc ragging on dbt Fusion but from what i can tell, it’s mostly vendors worried that dbt just killed their strategy of reselling dbt core careful who you listen to out there, folks
can’t believe jd vance killed the pope and they still elected an american to replace him
me heading to r/dataengineering to comment “why not just do this in dbt?” on every post about some insanely over-engineered data pipeline
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Michael Irvine@mjirv.bsky.social · last yr.like many of you (statistically speaking), i am technically eligible to be the next Pope
like many of you (statistically speaking), i am technically eligible to be the next Pope
eli5: why do we need a separate protocol for agents to call other agents? couldn’t we just use MCP?
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)- Google Developers Blog
Explore A2A, Google's new open protocol empowering developers to build interoperable AI solutions.
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wild that versace has the same valuation as like, airbyte
Prada buying rival fashion brand Versace in $1.36bn deal
The deal to unite the two Italian brands has an estimated value of $1.36bn (£1.06bn).
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if i were angel investing right now, my strategy would be to invest in anyone who’s totally ignoring AI there’s alpha in just building good old-fashioned products that solve users’ problems!
just saw the phrase “vibe marketing” and i think i might poke my eyes out
good post that answered some of my questions about Iceberg and confirmed that other ones aren’t crazy! (e.g. won’t you have huge egress costs unless you’re *really* careful?) worth a read
Anders@dataders.bsky.social · last yr.new rule: talk about Iceberg without mentioning Hive or ACID properties. the vast majority of SQL users don't care (and shouldn't)! it's like explaining Dropbox starting w/ bringing up libfuse If you're new to iceberg lmk if you get something from this! roundup.getdbt.com/p/iceberg-gi... #databs
i’ve noticed there’s a gap between how excited SWEs and data people are about AI. not sure what explains it. poor experiences with text-to-sql tools? concerns about being replaced?
very funny reddit post every comment is “we use Snowflake for SQL and Databricks for ML” and then half the replies are “you don’t need Databricks for that,” and the other half are “you don’t need Snowflake for that”
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you hear a lot of people compare the AI labs to cloud providers like “openai is the next aws” but i wonder if the cloud data warehouses are a better comparison is openai actually just the next snowflake?
fun things happening in the district just north of me!
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last yr.uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
honestly i didn’t think google had it in them to build a SOTA model. impressed.