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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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post #224

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I think this is a very privileged view. Most of the world does not have the culture of offering vegetarian/vegan meals. And if they did, living that lifestyle can be prohibitively expensive.

Weird, in my experience a vegetable based diet is way cheaper than one which involves meat...

Ever wonder why only the well off people can afford the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a Github repository listing Phoenix LiveView workalikes for different languages and frameworks: https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews ps: The BEAM is what makes LiveView so great, do not expect the same in the other environments.

Is the last sentence in your comment about developer experience, functionality, performance/scalability or something else?

Functionality, performance & scalability.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird, in my experience a vegetable based diet is way cheaper than one which involves meat...

Ever wonder why only the well off people can afford the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle?

The evidence for this is where?

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May I ask, I’m curious: why is ethereum contracts/blockchain not mentioned in any reply?

Wondering the same thing.

I learned about DeFi recently and am now curious to learn more about smart contracts, the underlying code and everything surrounding it.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ - Cockroach DB. It's a distributed SQL database that scales horizontally, supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions, and provides failover with minimal latency disruption. The founders are ex-Google employees who wanted to use Spanner[1] outside Google.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/spanner

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So forest admin is commercial for rails_admin or active_admin right?

That's right, it provides a lot more out of the box however and its hybrid architecture (1/2 SaaS 1/2 self-hosted) lets you instantly benefit from updates by refreshing your browser.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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I started off more bullish about ForestAdmin but then maybe I just couldn’t grok it but what it auto-generated wasn’t as elegant (connecting to a Postgres server) as I’d hoped.

Would you care to elaborate? Which parts of the admin API didn't you find elegant (the ORM, the express based framework?)?

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Snowflake's `Snowpark` product that they recently announced, which is to bring Spark-like APIs to Snowflake. Having a DS background, I love what SQL-orchestration tool dbt (and peers) have enabled: data consumers to rapidly create our own safe data pipelines. There's easily a 10x productivity improvement for most of my transformation pipelines vs. when I write them in Python or PySpark. But batch ML and SQL are not t…

And not something like Spark on EMR?

Well no, unfortunately.

Remember that "data is a team sport". Together, we try and make better decisions (in manual or automated ways). A DE can produce great data but it's only useful if it helps the DA/DS. There's a lot of friction there.

Most of that friction disappears with SQL-based orchestration tools (I mean specifically dbt here, but there are others). Suddenly the analyst can create the data they need! With minimal guidance from a DE.

That can be with Spark SQL (+ DeltaLake / Iceberg), or some warehouse. That's not the issue.

The issue is around keeping orchestration simple when you're not just doing simple stuff anymore. Keeping that DAG logical, clear, and smooth is difficult once you include non-SQL items.

This isn't solved by Spark UDFs unfortunately :)

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