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by iblaine 2mo ago
Is the before/after backwards?
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by iblaine 3mo ago
https://docdiagram.com - A tool for creating technical diagrams. Basically an upgrade from mermaid. Load it into your MCP, prompt it, you'll get a clean diagram binary file in svg/png/etc. https://anoma
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by iblaine 5mo ago
AnomalyArmor ( http://anomalyarmor.ai ) is a data observability platform. I got tired of being priced out of existing tools and hand-configuring per-table thresholds for every new dashboard. An AI agent sets up schema-drift, fresh
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by iblaine 6mo ago
FastMCP is great and this post is overdue. What did FastMCP solve? Lots of code reduction, reduced complexity and the ability to streamline auth. Offloading the auth was a huge benefit. With FastMCP I could replace all my custom JWT validat
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by iblaine 7mo ago
Boggles my mind that this is actually a thing that still needs to be solved. Just remote into your computer (I prefer TeamViewer). That is it. One step.
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by iblaine 8mo ago
I had a bad experience with greptile due to what seemed to be excessive noise and nit comments. I have been using cursorbot for a year and really like it.
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by iblaine 11mo ago
Remind me in 5 years. AI tools don’t hide the fact that the output needs to improve. Calling out the obvious problems is a lazy take.
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by iblaine 1y ago
This is common. Big company buys smaller company. Smaller company execs stay on and establish the idea of independence. Eventually smaller company execs move on and Big company fills the ranks with their employees. Nothing sinister. Just ho
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by iblaine 1y ago
Having been aquihired three times by FAANG+, the biggest take away is have accelerated vesting. To do that you got be lucky or in the C-suite. Being bought out usually sounds better then reality for everyone but a few that get that accelera
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by iblaine 2y ago
Is there a difference between implicit and explicit joins? No, but use an explain plan to be sure. (Saved you a click)
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by iblaine 2y ago
An IRC bot that would kindly insult project managers should they join our engineering chat channel while doing a deployment.
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by iblaine 2y ago
The correct answer is I don’t like makefiles when they are abused. They have no state yet people try use them as such and create pain for others.
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by iblaine 2y ago
I used to be bullish on creating ERDs, often using them as an onboarding exercise, even for databases with 100+ tables. However, comprehensive ERDs are becoming rare, and that's okay. Their value is short-lived due to the high cost of
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by iblaine 2y ago
Looking at this reminds me of Apache Pig. That’s not a compliment.
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by iblaine 2y ago
Low code ETL tools (informatica, Appworx, talend, pentaho, ssis) were the original services for ELT/ETL. A lot of progress was made to go towards ETL-as-code starting with Airflow/Luigi. Going back to low code seems backwards as t
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by iblaine 2y ago
It’s funny that indexing used to be unavailable when processing big data on Hadoop. Now that we have options to do so we now care. As tech evolves we adapt.
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by iblaine 2y ago
My OCD approves of this idea. Let’s also add, IDs cannot start with 0 or O.
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by iblaine 3y ago
One of the best gifts you can ever gift yourself.
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by iblaine 3y ago
Is crypto or the pastor more to blame?
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by iblaine 3y ago
TL;DR; do the easy things fist, in this case it was to fix bad SQL Given the options to optimize SQL, move read operations to replicas, shard data or go towards micro services, optimizing SQL is the easy choice.
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by iblaine 3y ago
A walking bike with a wheel in the front and 6 Theo Jansen type legs in the back https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-aileen-cannon-comes-out-...
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by iblaine 3y ago
Agreed. The job title of Data Engineer gets abused. Some DE's are Analysts, others are Backend SWEs. Their goals are aligned, to create value out of data, and their methods may differ greatly.
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by iblaine 3y ago
The Data Engineering track seems to attract data analysts and non-engineers. I’m one of them, have worked with many others in my same bucket. What makes Data Engineers excel, I think, is to have all the skills of a software engineer + the a
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by iblaine 3y ago
I saw the kickstarted version of this at a maker fairy and was blown away. The product was great for what it did.
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by iblaine 3y ago
Idea for a new linter; throw a warning if it sees extreme non-intuitive uses of Python. Given the trajectory of Python improvements over the past few years, this linter may not be far off.
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by iblaine 3y ago
It’s monumentally frustrating to be forced to give estimates too soon in the planning process. The compromise, I hope, is to end up in a place where most of the problem is known and some is unknown, and you get there by breaking down the or
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by iblaine 4y ago
Same thing happened at LinkedIn after the Microsoft acquisition. LinkedIn was using gmail, Google was quick to let the g suite contract die, so the timeline to move from gmail to Outlook was accelerated. Engineers at LinkedIn were livid abo
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by iblaine 4y ago
If I were building a tool to test SQL, then I'd try to load the SQL into a dataframe, then test it by mocking the tables and the output. This is a tough problem to solve. If testing is important, possibly move away from SQL and towards
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by iblaine 4y ago
CTEs still give me anxiety due to their inability to be potentially not be optimized. I know many database engines today optimize for this type of thing, I'm thankful for it, but there was as time 10+ years ago when CTE expressions cou
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by iblaine 4y ago
It’s unfortunate that what started out with altruistic motives, a method for decentralized anonymous asset exchange, is being derailed by opportunists. There was a time where a 51% attack was the biggest concern. All that said, I’m not surp

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