bleonard

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by bleonard 8mo ago
A blast from the past. When Taskrabbit was acquired by IKEA, I built several tools that went through the whole catalog via various crawling approaches. One tool was to estimate how long it would be to put each item together for an initial t
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by bleonard 11mo ago
I am excited about the Rails defaults where background and cache and sockets are all database driven. For normal-sized projects that still need those things, it's a huge win in simplicity.
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by bleonard 2y ago
Ario | Onsite in Palo Alto, CA | Full-time | heyario.com I recently started at Ario where we are building an app for parents that uses AI to make things easier. We are targeting saving them one hour every day. Previously, I co-founded Taskr
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by bleonard 2y ago
We have to work on the scaling. There is lots of web scraping and LLM calls that we need to make sure works under load. I'm sure there will be quality improvements as well.
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by bleonard 2y ago
AMA: I was on the team that built the AI Assist functionality. Happy to chat about it. I became obsessed with documentation sites for a while there.
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Show HN: Airbyte 1.0, Marketplace, AI Assist, GenAI Support and Enterprise GA
58 points by bleonard 2y ago|14 comments
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by bleonard 2y ago
Just came to say, I still think this is the best balance between the many factors of running a dev team. I keep trying to recreate it in every tool I use.
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by bleonard 3y ago
Airbyte acquired our Reverse ETL company, Grouparoo, 1.5 years ago. There is so much to solve making just the Extract and Load work well and so much value that comes from that, we have been busy there. I'm excited to circle back to pub
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by bleonard 4y ago
Maybe some day this will be available in JSON. I built a system for TaskRabbit that scraped all the IKEA products from a variety of sources and ran algorithms to determine their category and predict how long they would take to be assembled.
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by bleonard 4y ago
From the Grouparoo team, we are so excited to be working with Airbyte to be able to move data anywhere you want it to go.
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by bleonard 5y ago
Congrats to the Castled team on the launch. At Grouparoo, this is a primary use case. We have a UI that engineers use locally. This helps gets things right. It outputs a JSON configuration that is checked in. When that is deployed, it does
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by bleonard 5y ago
It's hard to leave the comparisons dangling, for sure. But I'll defer for now. Congrats on the launch :-)
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by bleonard 5y ago
There are probably some nuances one level down. Things our users have told us they can do in these areas that, to my knowledge, Hightouch doesn't do: * Combine data from different sources to define a model. We'v seen using Postgre
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by bleonard 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! Hightouch looks great and this need is real. Things seem to be going well, so I don't think I'm taking too much away by mentioning that we have been been working on Grouparoo, an open source alternative tha
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by bleonard 5y ago
We just finished up the Open Source Data Stack conference, which is all about this topic. Feel free to check out the reply. Specifically, open source approaches to the modern data stack where the trend is picking the right tools for the job
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Free / Tomorrow: Open-Source Data Stack Conference(opensourcedatastack.com)
2 points by bleonard 5y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Data Stack Conference(opensourcedatastack.com)
2 points by bleonard 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 5y ago
We are super excited to share our new developer tooling that makes these integrations so easy. Let me know if you have any questions
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Development Workflow for Reverse ETL(grouparoo.com)
18 points by bleonard 5y ago|1 comments
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Data Makes Your Tools Smarter(grouparoo.com)
1 points by bleonard 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 5y ago
Here was my attempt several years ago that used reveal.js https://github.com/bleonard/jekyll-slides I found it useful to have notes as well that showed up when presenting on the other screen.
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by bleonard 5y ago
It's certainly not production situation, but I quickly made this [1] a while back to help with "watching" certain queries for debugging. It uses a polling approach. [1] https://github.com/grouparoo/db_wat
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Reverse ETL with Dbt and Grouparoo(grouparoo.com)
1 points by bleonard 5y ago|0 comments
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Batching API Requests(grouparoo.com)
2 points by bleonard 6y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 6y ago
It's open source and free. We're still figuring out the paid offering. Add yes, it is hard :-) My experience is that a "contact us" button for a startup is just as likely to be and MVP test as it is to be some nefarious
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by bleonard 6y ago
We can use any query to bring in and are considering various ways to process it after that. That's in the near term roadmap. The main kind of "processing" that's done now is using all these properties to calculate cohort
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by bleonard 6y ago
There are usual suspects for sources. Databases (MySQL, Postgres) and data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift). Though data out is more common, we can also bring in data from any given SaaS tool as well. For example, we have a Mailchi
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by bleonard 6y ago
We were on Hacker News a few months back. Since then, developers have been using the UI to set up automated data movement from their databases to Mailchimp, Marketo, Salesforce, and more. But we also heard that they wanted it more like thei
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Grouparoo: Declarative Data Sync(grouparoo.com)
63 points by bleonard 6y ago|13 comments
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by bleonard 6y ago
This post might be of interest to you: https://medium.com/memory-leak/reverse-etl-a-primer-4e6694dc... Astasia went through the nascent "reverse ETL" world, including Polytomic, Census, and our open source so

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