jcolvin.bsky.social
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VP, Engineering at Brooklyn Data. Opinions my own.
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@timodechau.bsky.social has some great articles (and a whole book!) about doing this in a smart way.
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Congrats!!
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One would think! But if it were true, we wouldn’t have nearly as many clients.
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Glad you like the article! We’re wanting to write more technical posts like this in 2025.
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I don’t know if we “rediscovered” it — BDC was modeling like this since before I joined. We’re just talking about it externally more!
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In your defense, sometimes they go awry even when they _do_ sleep 🫠
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> I would bet…
Oh no; the call is coming from inside the house!
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It will be my wife’s annual video game as well and she’s excited!
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WHERE 1=1 people unite!
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Is that an Empire Records reference?!
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This is where forwarding comes in handy. Forward the message into the channel and the post to the channel “Forwarding here for visibility!” And then continue the conversation in thread. The faster you can respond to the DM creation the easier it goes.
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Yes! My dad was the Network Admin for all the Social Security offices in middle Georgia when that was a brand new thing. I remember him having to visit each office to setup the networks for them to connect to the internet for the first time.
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I was thinking more for the All Purpose clusters where you might have some SQL workloads, but most of it could be pure Python and the Spark availability provides little to no benefit.
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But the decisions being made are some form of "How do I solve this problem?" If folks don't care if they're solving the problem properly no amount of data analysis will matter. Having (and using) good data analysis reduces the risk of solving a problem the wrong way.
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By "cleaning up this mess" and "making better charts", etc. we're reducing the risk of making a bad decision, missing the opportunity to make a decision, etc. The primal reason businesses decide to hire data folks is "Am I leaving money on the table by not using all this stuff?"
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But if the business thinks it's worth delegating / cleaning up / etc., they believe there's some value in doing so. Dysfunction aside, businesses don't do things just for the sake of doing them. I think at the highest level, data and related fields are all about risk reduction in decision-making.
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Would be interesting if they could offer it as a separate compute type that doesn’t have Spark running at all. Then you wouldn’t have that overhead on the node and could do “simple” Python and SQL things on that compute type.
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I love that based on just this interaction there’s no way of knowing if your kid is 6 or 16. I can totally picture my 6yo saying that to me.
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This is the name for the work-related channel in my friend Slack! 🤣
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To this day I still have a very clear memory of reading the Warcraft 2 manual on the way home and getting so pumped to play it.
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I’m not at kubecon but would love to hear it! Any idea if talk recordings are made publicly available?
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I got my undergrad in business (mgmt and marketing dual focus) and then a Master’s in market research (think a blend of an MBA and stats). All my tech skills are self-taught but I think that education gave me great foundation to connect the dots and present data in an impactful way.
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I worked at Nielsen early in my career. There was a VP who had been there his whole career and he’d reminisce on how they’d have to wait for several binders of data to be mailed in, they’d work like hell for a week building reports, and then just hang out and play golf the rest of the month.
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Thank you for sharing! Now added to the Christmas gifts for my wife. 😄
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Could you include me please?
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When everything is an all-in-one app, nothing is.
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Gotta be phantom menace
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“Database” and “catalog” are the most overloaded terms in data.
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Like a try-except block for SQL. Genius!
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Just yesterday I was wishing Neon had one of these analytics-focused extensions. Exciting!!
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There's a "Follow All" button at the top, but it's only for the list at the point-in-time when you click. It doesn't automatically update if the list gets updated so you have to periodically check to see if new folks were addd. Being able to add the Starter Pack as a feed would be *chef's kiss*.
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Welcome to the party! 🥳
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Are the skittles a snack, color inspiration, or both?