mejakethomas

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O'Reilly Editor Review Skill(github.com)
2 points by mejakethomas 8d ago|0 comments
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Serverless Makes Streaming Accessible(buz.dev)
1 points by mejakethomas 4y ago|0 comments
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
Snowflake too. Inefficient sql? Crank the virtual warehouse.
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
Yes! This!!! Volume != Quality
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
So what I'm hearing is it's not the size of your data that matters, it's how you use it?
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Rage Filter(ragefilter.com)
1 points by mejakethomas 4y ago|0 comments
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
Completely agree. Currently staring at 700k+ BigQuery costs annually and accomplished MUCH more with Snowflake at the same price.
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
This. Snowflake introspection five years ago looks very, very different than today. Mostly due to enhancement requests.
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
Totally agree with Redshift sentiments. It's been lovely seeing BigQuery and Redshift step their game up over the past 1.5yrs, because they really should have been doing certain things for many years prior. Re: Firebolt, I don't c
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
This, 100%. It eats/consolidates formerly-disparate costs around the org. Because it's so good. Which makes it look expensive.
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by mejakethomas 4y ago
It's not expensive. What it can do, successfully, with three engineers was previously impossible with dozens. What IS expensive is not being careful with it.
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Honeypot – Event Streaming for the Rest of Us(honeypot.silverton.io)
7 points by mejakethomas 4y ago|2 comments
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by mejakethomas 5y ago
Ah yes, the common misconception that trades are simplistic! Most trades (!including plumbing!) have VASTLY more stringent requirements than tech, are often more mentally stimulating, and yes, quite rewarding. Disclaimer: I've worked i
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by mejakethomas 5y ago
PipelineDB was awesome - built some v. neat things with it 4-5 years ago. Wouldn't use it now since the team went to Confluent. https://ksqldb.io/ functionality is getting close. Flink is a solid option. Materialize sh
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by mejakethomas 6y ago
big fan of what you're doing @ elevated woodworking! gorgeous stuff
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by mejakethomas 6y ago
Hey cool! Thanks for sharing :)
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Data Engineering Apprenticeship(reddit.com)
6 points by mejakethomas 6y ago|0 comments
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GDPR for Engineers – What You Need to Know(bostata.com)
4 points by mejakethomas 7y ago|0 comments
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by mejakethomas 7y ago
You'll still have to anonymize IP addresses, since those are classified as personal data in the EU.
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by mejakethomas 7y ago
(data engineer here) Nice post! It's always fun reading about people being creative and challenging the analytics status quo (aka GA). Besides the joy of doing it yourself, you've accomplished a couple other things worth mentionin
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by mejakethomas 7y ago
Totally agree! I'm running a minimalistic version of snowplow's collection/etl infra for under $1 per month, and it works great: https://bostata.com/client-side-instrumentation-for-under-on...
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GDPR for Engineers – What Is Personal Data?(bostata.com)
3 points by mejakethomas 7y ago|0 comments
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by mejakethomas 7y ago
I'm at pycon right now, and this is hilarious.
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
I totally agree
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
And also, huge props for the creativity! You hit a nerve here, and it's a topic being discussed at pretty much any/all companies.
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
Props for diving into such a hot topic though. This is a really big deal for companies of many sizes (probably _all_ sizes), and bringing creativity to this conversation is +1
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
Agreed!
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
Snowplow is awesome - it doesn't come with a UI but here's a sample of what data is included: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/canonical-event-mo... A pretty common move is to drop this dat
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
I've found the documentation here to be very comprehensive if you want to start learning why/what/how: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/javascript-tracker https://github.com
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by mejakethomas 8y ago
(Data engineer here) Nice article! I did something very similar to this for my blog but used Snowplow's javascript tracker ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker ), a cloudfront distribution with

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