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Is the before/after backwards?

https://docdiagram.com - A tool for creating technical diagrams. Basically an upgrade from mermaid. Load it into your MCP, prompt it, you'll get a clean diagram binary file in svg/…

AnomalyArmor ( http://anomalyarmor.ai ) is a data observability platform. I got tired of being priced out of existing tools and hand-configuring per-table thresholds for every new …

FastMCP is great and this post is overdue. What did FastMCP solve? Lots of code reduction, reduced complexity and the ability to streamline auth. Offloading the auth was a huge ben…

Boggles my mind that this is actually a thing that still needs to be solved. Just remote into your computer (I prefer TeamViewer). That is it. One step.

I had a bad experience with greptile due to what seemed to be excessive noise and nit comments. I have been using cursorbot for a year and really like it.

Remind me in 5 years. AI tools don’t hide the fact that the output needs to improve. Calling out the obvious problems is a lazy take.

This is common. Big company buys smaller company. Smaller company execs stay on and establish the idea of independence. Eventually smaller company execs move on and Big company fil…

Having been aquihired three times by FAANG+, the biggest take away is have accelerated vesting. To do that you got be lucky or in the C-suite. Being bought out usually sounds bette…

Is there a difference between implicit and explicit joins? No, but use an explain plan to be sure. (Saved you a click)

An IRC bot that would kindly insult project managers should they join our engineering chat channel while doing a deployment.

The correct answer is I don’t like makefiles when they are abused. They have no state yet people try use them as such and create pain for others.

I used to be bullish on creating ERDs, often using them as an onboarding exercise, even for databases with 100+ tables. However, comprehensive ERDs are becoming rare, and that's ok…

Looking at this reminds me of Apache Pig. That’s not a compliment.

Low code ETL tools (informatica, Appworx, talend, pentaho, ssis) were the original services for ELT/ETL. A lot of progress was made to go towards ETL-as-code starting with Airflow/…

It’s funny that indexing used to be unavailable when processing big data on Hadoop. Now that we have options to do so we now care. As tech evolves we adapt.

My OCD approves of this idea. Let’s also add, IDs cannot start with 0 or O.

One of the best gifts you can ever gift yourself.

Is crypto or the pastor more to blame?

TL;DR; do the easy things fist, in this case it was to fix bad SQL Given the options to optimize SQL, move read operations to replicas, shard data or go towards micro services, opt…

A walking bike with a wheel in the front and 6 Theo Jansen type legs in the back https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-aileen-cannon-comes-out-...

Agreed. The job title of Data Engineer gets abused. Some DE's are Analysts, others are Backend SWEs. Their goals are aligned, to create value out of data, and their methods may dif…

The Data Engineering track seems to attract data analysts and non-engineers. I’m one of them, have worked with many others in my same bucket. What makes Data Engineers excel, I thi…