georgewfraser

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by georgewfraser 21d ago
AWS is a great home for DuckLabs. They just want people to use more compute and storage, so they have a degree of technology-neutrality. This is the key to allowing DuckDB to continue to grow in whatever directions are natural, rather than
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by georgewfraser 1mo ago
What pgbouncer does is indeed core functionality. Compare Postgres to MySQL and sql server, where analogous standalone connection pools are rarely used. The fundamental reason pgbouncer needs to exist is Postgres’ utterly retrograde design.
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We built our own status page with AI, replacing a $65k SaaS product(fivetran.com)
2 points by georgewfraser 1mo ago|0 comments
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by georgewfraser 3mo ago
Slack is such a simple product, and is so strategic as an interface for AI, Anthropic has to be considering building their own Slack. Hopefully this tag approach is an MVP and it proves the potential of workplace messaging as an interface f
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by georgewfraser 6mo ago
I assure you I wrote it myself
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by georgewfraser 6mo ago
Claude-in-Slack is a big enough feature to overcome the slack-connect network effect. Openness is absolutely key! I wrote this post because I hoped that if Anthropic is already planning to do this I might be able to influence them to make
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by georgewfraser 6mo ago
Also true! The most important thing is that the NewSlacks commit to interoperability. I think Anthropic has a special opportunity to lead the way here, because they have a track record of standing by their principles to an extraordinary deg
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by georgewfraser 6mo ago
You can only access public channel data, you can't even access that at scale, and Claude needs to be more natively integrated in ways that Slack will never allow.
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Anthropic, please make a new Slack(fivetran.com)
272 points by georgewfraser 6mo ago|253 comments
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Salesforce is tightening control of its data ecosystem(cio.com)
7 points by georgewfraser 9mo ago|0 comments
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by georgewfraser 1y ago
I talked to the timescale CTO at pg conf a few years ago and asked him what timescale does differently than a standard columnar database that makes it better suited for time oriented data. He said a bunch of things and I said “but columnar
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by georgewfraser 1y ago
They make a really good criticism of Iceberg: if we have a database anyway, why are we bothering to store metadata in files? I don’t think DuckLake itself will succeed in getting adopted beyond DuckDB, but I would not be surprised if over t
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by georgewfraser 1y ago
This is exactly right. We even went so far as to build a proof of concept internally, and the technical challenges are just very different. The simplest way to explain it is that Fivetran connects a skinny pipe (APIs) to a fat pipe (databas
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by georgewfraser 1y ago
I am generally a huge vertical sharding skeptic but there are special cases where it is beneficial. If you have a simple query pattern on one table that represents a big fraction of your entire workload you can put it into its own instance
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by georgewfraser 2y ago
Like so many things from Google engineering this will be toxic to your startup. SREs read stuff like this, they get main character syndrome and start redoing the technical designs of all the other teams, and not in a good way. This phenomen
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by georgewfraser 2y ago
In general, I absolutely agree with you. It’s basically an instance of “the customer is always right”: if a smart customer can’t get our product working, there is a problem with the product. But this post made a much bolder (and wrong) clai
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by georgewfraser 2y ago
I have some insight into this because this claim is about my company Fivetran: “…relies on the data source being able to seek backwards on its changelog. But Postgres throws changelogs away once they're consumed, so the Postgres data s
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by georgewfraser 2y ago
You can partition your BigQuery table however you like and Fivetran will leave it in place. I don’t think there’s any benefit to partitioning the staging table.
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by georgewfraser 3y ago
I wonder if it would be easier to create a C virtual machine that emulates all the OS interaction, then recompile Postgres and the extensions to run on this. Perhaps TruffleC would work? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145&#
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
I have an S with a yoke and prefer it to a round steering wheel. 95% of the time it’s better: you can see the entire dashboard and your body can feel the angle of the wheel instinctively. 5% of the time it’s worse, during low speed maneuver
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
The world would be a better place if database drivers were completely abandoned as a way for clients to connect to databases. A standard API, implemented by multiple vendors, is a vastly preferable solution. Arrow Flight is an example of th
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
Licensing under AGPL will make it hard for any startup to use Cozo. Lawyers always ask about AGPL in venture financing diligence and it is considered a red flag. You can argue that they are wrong, the linking exception and so on, but you’re
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NRR Doesn't Matter(fivetran.com)
13 points by georgewfraser 4y ago|1 comments
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
The core claim of this article, that Snowflake doesn't implement optimizations that would reduce usage, is not true. Search optimized tables, partitioned tables, and per-second billing are all counterexamples.
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
Yeah I think that is the key question: will data lakes become the dominant paradigm? There is certainly a lot of talk around them, though I see a ton of companies are still just going all in on a conventional data warehouse, but they tend n
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
The thing I wonder about with Presto and to a lesser extent Spark is, how many of their users adopted this tool because it was an easy migration path from Hive, and how many of those users will eventually re-platform to something else?
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
There is no better way to get shut out as a scientist than to disprove the career-making findings of the important people in your field. One of the side effects of this is the “discussion does not match the results” paper. It’s routine to r
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Can ML be absorbed by the DBMS?(fivetran.com)
1 points by georgewfraser 4y ago|0 comments
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
I hope not. We need to hire a Postgres DBA at Fivetran, we have more or less a single Postgres database with all our state, and it’s become clear that we need a full time person to optimize it.
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by georgewfraser 4y ago
Going to hazard a guess that he’s mad that Tesla isn’t a customer of his embedded-software-testing product https://www.ghs.com/

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