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Data Mesh in Action
Data Mesh in Action

Revolutionize the way your organization approaches data with a data mesh!

2022

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Unpacking Business Open Source

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How To Build the Next Mega Open Source Project

8 lessons learned from a 3-dimensional framework for understanding how to turn your open-source project into the next WordPress or Linux. — “Open Source projects exhibit natural increasing returns to scale. That’s because most developers are interested in using and participating in the largest projects, and the projects with the most developers are more likely to quickly fix bugs, add features and work reliably across the largest number of platforms. …

Data

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How To Build the Next Mega Open Source Project
How To Build the Next Mega Open Source Project
Data

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Unpacking Business Open Source

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How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company

14 thoughts on the economics of the open-source data space and how to become the next MongoDB or Databricks — The data space is booming, with companies like mongoDB (valued at 18 billion USD), databricks (30 billion), or Confluent, and many others. The startup space is overflowing with money and lots of founders want a share of the pie. But in my opinion, the data space is set up to…

Business

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How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company
How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company
Business

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Geek Culture

·Sep 1

17 Things I Wish I’d Done Earlier as a Data Engineer

I don’t like to dwell on the past. And a lot of times, it is essential to make mistakes yourself. And yet, I find myself recommending many practices to new data engineers. Because I felt the pain personally, and it wasn’t fun. I spent two months early on my job…

Data Engineering

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17 Things I Wish I’d Done Earlier as a Data Engineer
17 Things I Wish I’d Done Earlier as a Data Engineer
Data Engineering

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Geek Culture

·Jun 27

Explain like I’m 5 — Vector Database Hype

A simple explanation of what vector databases & embeddings are and why they are so hot right now! — Gazillions of dollars are being poured into vector databases like Pinecone and Weaviate. But why? Both companies were founded already five years ago. To understand, you need to understand the essence of three things, vectors embeddings vector databases Luckily, I got a story ready for you that makes it easy…

Data

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Explain like I’m 5 — Vector Database Hype
Explain like I’m 5 — Vector Database Hype
Data

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Geek Culture

·Jun 21

Fresh Data Is The New Real-Time Data

Why data engineers can make their lives easier by providing fresher data — Google “Real-time data is underrated,” and you’ll likely end up with an article by Hunter Walk explaining why it is overrated and the true data that’s underrated is historical data.

Data

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Fresh Data Is The New Real-Time Data
Fresh Data Is The New Real-Time Data
Data

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Towards Data Science

·Apr 4

5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data

Immutable raw areas, no transformations, no flattening, and no dedups before finishing your excavations — This post is an updated version of the original version of the Meltano blog. ELT is becoming the default choice for data architectures, yet many best practices focus primarily on “T”: the transformations. But data quality is determined for transformation and beyond in the extract and load phase. As the…

Data

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5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data
5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data
Data

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Geek Culture

·Mar 26

Mental Models For The Data Space

Build your data company faster, manage your data products better, and invest smarter by using data-specific mental models — “In Munger’s view, it is better to be worldly wise than to spend lots of time working with a single model that is precisely wrong. A multiple-model approach that is only approximately right will produce a far better outcome in anything that involves people or a social system.” (Tren Griffin…

Data

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Mental Models For the Data Space
Mental Models For the Data Space
Data

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Geek Culture

·Mar 20

Why You Should Become A Data Product Manager In 2023

5 Reasons to switch your career to data product management. — I’ve noticed a shift. It happened to me when I entered my role as data PM, it is happening all around the tech industry. It is happening in traditional industries, and it comes fast. Data product management, emphasis on data, is becoming a thing. In job titles, web content, discussions…

Data

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Why You Should Become A Data Product Manager In 2023
Why You Should Become A Data Product Manager In 2023
Data

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Geek Culture

·Mar 17

Data Architecture: Rich + Happy = Fata Data Stacks?

7 Lessons to build lean, simple, and agile data stacks, not fat ones. — Data architecture, it’s that time of the year again. For some reason, whenever it is dark outside, so are the thoughts about your own data architecture, outdated, too complex, something is missing. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The solution is not to hire dedicated data architects that…

Data

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Data Architecture: Rich + Happy = Fata Data Stacks?
Data Architecture: Rich + Happy = Fata Data Stacks?
Data

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Geek Culture

·Mar 4

Stokes Matrices & Data Engineering

What Writing a PhD Thesis In Singularity Theory Has Taught Me About Data Engineering — In August 2017 I started writing my phD thesis in a field called singularity theory. Not the fun AI kind of theory, but the mathematical version about “when unexpected things happen”. And so it happened, that while I was still sitting more in my office than actually writing, a friend…

Data

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What Writing a PhD Thesis In Singularity Theory Has Taught Me About Data Engineering
What Writing a PhD Thesis In Singularity Theory Has Taught Me About Data Engineering
Data

6 min read

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