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Slack is such a simple product, and is so strategic as an interface for AI, Anthropic has to be considering building their own Slack. Hopefully this tag approach is an MVP and it p…

I assure you I wrote it myself

Claude-in-Slack is a big enough feature to overcome the slack-connect network effect. Openness is absolutely key! I wrote this post because I hoped that if Anthropic is already pla…

Also true! The most important thing is that the NewSlacks commit to interoperability. I think Anthropic has a special opportunity to lead the way here, because they have a track re…

You can only access public channel data, you can't even access that at scale, and Claude needs to be more natively integrated in ways that Slack will never allow.

I talked to the timescale CTO at pg conf a few years ago and asked him what timescale does differently than a standard columnar database that makes it better suited for time orient…

They make a really good criticism of Iceberg: if we have a database anyway, why are we bothering to store metadata in files? I don’t think DuckLake itself will succeed in getting a…

This is exactly right. We even went so far as to build a proof of concept internally, and the technical challenges are just very different. The simplest way to explain it is that F…

I am generally a huge vertical sharding skeptic but there are special cases where it is beneficial. If you have a simple query pattern on one table that represents a big fraction o…

Like so many things from Google engineering this will be toxic to your startup. SREs read stuff like this, they get main character syndrome and start redoing the technical designs …

In general, I absolutely agree with you. It’s basically an instance of “the customer is always right”: if a smart customer can’t get our product working, there is a problem with th…

I have some insight into this because this claim is about my company Fivetran: “…relies on the data source being able to seek backwards on its changelog. But Postgres throws change…

You can partition your BigQuery table however you like and Fivetran will leave it in place. I don’t think there’s any benefit to partitioning the staging table.

I wonder if it would be easier to create a C virtual machine that emulates all the OS interaction, then recompile Postgres and the extensions to run on this. Perhaps TruffleC would…

I have an S with a yoke and prefer it to a round steering wheel. 95% of the time it’s better: you can see the entire dashboard and your body can feel the angle of the wheel instinc…

The world would be a better place if database drivers were completely abandoned as a way for clients to connect to databases. A standard API, implemented by multiple vendors, is a …

Licensing under AGPL will make it hard for any startup to use Cozo. Lawyers always ask about AGPL in venture financing diligence and it is considered a red flag. You can argue that…

The core claim of this article, that Snowflake doesn't implement optimizations that would reduce usage, is not true. Search optimized tables, partitioned tables, and per-second bil…

Yeah I think that is the key question: will data lakes become the dominant paradigm? There is certainly a lot of talk around them, though I see a ton of companies are still just go…

The thing I wonder about with Presto and to a lesser extent Spark is, how many of their users adopted this tool because it was an easy migration path from Hive, and how many of tho…