AWS name is really negative.
I trust the person leading DuckDB, nevertheless.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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Surely they are better than Google in this regard.
AFAIK Google is much better at not tearing well-working teams apart in reorgs, and letting people go they have acquihired a few quarters earlier. Of the few examples I have I my head, I'd even say that the fate of a product that has been acquired by Google is probably even better than those of Google's internally developed products. e.g. Waze is still alive and kicking 13 years after acquisition under its own brand a…
Google Maps is also an acquisition from more than 2 decades ago, by the way.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#303If you are into geo spatial, worth to check on the same class project - SedonaDB https://github.com/apache/sedona-db
"SedonaDB is an open-source single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen"
Apache License 2.0 https://github.com/apache/sedona-db/blob/main/LICENSE
MIT License https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/main/LICENSE
https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/spatial/func...
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is better but it's an incredibly low bar. Amazon will drive these people to quit within a couple years over filling out MBRs and threats about how the MBR isn't good enough (MBR = monthly business report, pure bullshit theatre that drives the whole company mad 2/4 weeks every month). Google would drive them to quit over a longer timeframe, with no threats or harrassment, just because every time they try to shi…
Why don't they hire MBR specialists and embed them? Leave the development groups alone.
They do, they’re TPMs and PMs. If you’re a development team at Amazon stressing over MBRs, you’ve failed to give those people the tools to pull important metrics themselves.