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veritas3241

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About veritas3241

Staff Data Engineer at GitLab

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-data/analytics

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    Comment #32904655

    https://docs.pdap.io/activities/data-sources/explore-data-so... It's in the docs.

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    Comment #28623394

    I finally switched from firefox to safari on iOS. The latest redesign was the last straw for me. Very frustrating how the look of the app keeps changing without any useful updates.…

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    Comment #25318468

    Multiple reasons, depending on your level of cynicism. Least cynical is that there were competing priorities in the general and the current President was (is) an overall distractio…

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    Comment #25306978

    Pretty sure they're doing this to entice people to vote in the Georgia runoffs so Dems will control the Senate. "Vote for us and we can make this law."

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    Comment #24803739

    We implemented a 90 day retention policy for all slack messages about a year ago. Everyone was pretty resistant to it at first, but it's been pretty great, honestly. It forces us t…

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    Comment #24282219

    I'm a little skeptical of this as well, but I think there is a path. At my previous company we would take in a lot of data from other companies and do analysis for them. If we had …

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    Comment #24270537

    Sorry you had a bad experience with it. Certainly compared to redshift it's a dream. I use it every day and it's been great for us.

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    Comment #24265986

    Ah good catch. I don't know then.

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    Comment #24265581

    I had the exact same question. Pg 127 seems to give the answer. > Date Available for Sale in the Public : The 91st day after the date of this prospectus (First Release). Edit: Seem…

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    Comment #24265319

    Snowflake is the go to data warehouse in my opinion. Redshift and BigQuery are fine, but Snowflake is head and shoulders above. Good community around it and tools for it (dbt - wor…

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    Comment #23684872

    I recently saw youtube video on that called the cardboard box reform. It caught my eye because I hadn't heard anyone talking about it, but it really makes sense. I don't know how y…

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    Comment #23562852

    Seconded! And you can build your own adapters for other databases as well.

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    Comment #23287953

    Every time I see a post about Mongo it makes me wonder what could have been if RethinkDB was managed differently.

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    Comment #23199305

    I've been thinking about this a lot lately and have come to a similar conclusion. I've been very focused on technical skills lately, but in doing so I've started to lose some conne…

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    Comment #23181996

    Assuming the vendor doesn't claim that having + is invalid. I've seen that quite a lot.

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    Comment #22432888

    We link to three others at the bottom of our guide that have heavily inspired us https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/sql... Thanks for the kind words! * https:…

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    Comment #22418302

    I completely agree with how you framed this and I articulate very similar points to people when they ask me about Autopilot. I'm no longer exhausted after a long drive and it's ama…

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    Comment #22273449

    Snowflake does something similar since it's a metadata store and cloning is mainly copying the metadata. It does scale with data volumes though so it doesn't seem like it's be as q…

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    Comment #22137620

    Google dropping inbox was what finally got me abandon their products as much as I could. Switch to Firefox and use DDG as my primary search provider. FYI, Darwin Mail[0] was made s…

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    Comment #22103410

    At one point when I was at another company I was working on a graph database that connected all of the ontologies you mentioned and then some. It was really cool to be able to trav…

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    Comment #22035602

    dbt is a fantastic tool. We really on it for basically all of our transformations at GitLab.

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    Comment #21515011

    Stitch/Fivetran/Custom -> Snowflake -> dbt -> Periscope Lots more documentation here https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/ We have many of our KPIs embedded in …

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    Comment #21475117

    I would love for sortition to come into vogue in the US. Not sure where it would fit but it seems like it aligns incentives better.

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    Comment #21425169

    We need some data engineers / Python folks on the data team! :-)

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    Comment #21348914

    I noticed you looked at the marketing site which is completely separate from the FOSS and Enterprise offerings. Does https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/trending look better? That'…