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:facepalm: "orchestration/management layer" that just runs dozens of millions of VMs per day, across the three clouds, with things like model serving, AI gateway, OLTP (Lakebase/Ne…

Parquet alone is not for modern data engineering. Delta, Iceberg should be in the list

Want to be at airport at time? Go with DB a day before and sleep at hotel near airport

I’m also was wondering that it wasn’t mentioned. At some point I did all programming in it, compiling via command line, switching to Borland IDEs only for debugging….

It really depends. I was at talk of architect of car company when he was talking about need to develop and support a car software for 20-30 years - few years before release, 10-20 …

Plain parquet has a lot of problems. That’s why iceberg and delta arise

It’s already supported for quite a while: https://duckdb.org/2024/06/10/delta.html

For Germany it’s far from reality… it shows from Paderborn to Dortmund in less than hour, but usually it’s good if you get there in two hours by train…

I still use muse + emacs lisp to generate my CV into html and pdf (via Latex with custom template)

SM-1800 was Intel based, not PDP-11 based. 1800 was based on Russian variant of 8080, and 1810 had both 8080 and 8086 as I remember. https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/…

Another nice feature was data exchange between different kernels

Unfortunately, it didn’t get enough community around, and development has stalled. For some time it was sponsored by Alibaba, but at some point of time, the main maintainer left it…

I was in Thailand in 2017th - mobile internet with 4g was almost everywhere, including small islands. It was a huge contrast to Germany where you need to get 15 minutes drive from …

You can already have it in Delta with Delta Rust and Python bindings: https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs

Article (in russian language) about the product and why Scheme was used: https://web.archive.org/web/20210506123442/http://fprog.ru/2...

~20 years ago I worked on commercial software for email security that was using MzScheme (before it became PLT Scheme) as the base language. Code was cross-platform (Solaris, Linux…

A lot of things has changed quite long ago - not everything is notebook, local dev is fully supported, version pinning wasn’t a problem, cluster startup time heavily dependent on u…

It’s less about notebooks, but more about SDLC practices. Notebooks may encourage writing throwaway code, but if you split code correctly, then you can do unit testing, write modul…

There is VSCode extension, plus databricks-connect… plus DABs. There are a lot customers doing local only development

Mosaic AI Training ( https://www.databricks.com/product/machine-learning/mosaic-a... ) as it's mentioned in the announcement blog ( https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-dbrx-…

There is another discussion about it - in context of the technical blog post that has more details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104

Ah, I remember, the self-extracted .msi file was one of the quite challenging files - it's executable, it's a .cab file, and OLE2-container

Mime type detection is very interesting thing. I wrote media type detection for McAfee Web Gateway 7.x and because it was a high performance proxy, the detection speed was a major …

There are also pneumatic computers. Here is the recent article: https://cacm.acm.org/news/275366-pneumatic-computing-gains-a... , but I remember (around 30 years ago) mentions of t…