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> You will join a collaborative, mission-driven team where ideas are valued, contributions are recognized, and innovation is part of everyday work. Wow, gee wiz. I can’t wait to sy…

I’m never leaving Seattle. iykyk

No doubt. Ask my team how thrilled I am whenever we say "coming soon." Narrator: It made him die inside.

Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog. Yesterday we announced Polaris specifically so (1) customers don't get locked into a catalog; (2) people know Snowflake works with AWS, Azu…

I’d take issue with the “Iceberg is slow” theme that Databricks in particular has tried to push. If that were true, Snowflake would not be as fast on Iceberg/Parquet as its native …

I agree with the points you make above.

It’s written by a group -really- trying to make one of them a thing, even though it’s in decline, so just have that lens for anyone reading it.

Disclaimer - work at Snowflake. Two quick points to mention. 1. Snowflake has always used blob stores + file data + metadata. Architecturally it’s actually always been very Lakehou…

As a note, Iceberg also supports AVRO in addition to Parquet (and ORC).

I talk to customers basically all day about table formats. Only one customer has really brought up Hudi in a meaningful way. IMO, Hudi is basically out of contention for 95%+ of pe…

I’ll just point out on the Snowflake side, we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format. The value add is…

Also relevant for context on that. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/elon-musk-texas-lawsuit-...

Disclaimer - Snowflake here. I will just point out that when my team and I talk about streaming, we are focused on not real-time because in many cases, the value to a customer is n…

Yep. One system is political but clear in how it operates. The other system is political and unclear how it operates. Still both "political".

"At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand." But also "Twitter moved at the spe…

If you are an REI member, they often have stuff in the used (Garage) site that is in excellent quality and also less expensive. Patagonia also has worn wear that does the same thin…

As a data point, if you examine something more granular and trend/topic tied, like Snowpark (which is close to Clickhouse alone) or "Snowflake Table" I would propose the overall po…

Capture One also supports Fuji sims natively. It’s an excellent combo of you shoot Fuji. It’s so handy to swap the sim in post.

I have a 16gb m2 MBA. I’ve hit memory issues exactly once. I had FF open with a ton of tabs, Capture One open, and I was stacking 400 frames in PixInsight. The fact I had to push t…

I’ve built my product career working on projects that present risks to the status quo for companies. This isn’t unique to Apple. Not to defend them specifically, but a company will…

I had two Teslas (3, Y) and used FSD in Seattle. It did not work and based on my experience, I am extremely skeptical it will ever work in places like Seattle. The car could not ev…

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