“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. …
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…
Hey everyone, I just opened up a new section on this newsletter called “Notes from the ThDPTh” community. So if you feel like sharing something interesting and are deeply involved in the data space, go ahead and just ping me!
This week, my thoughts were all over the place. I…
I just read the simplest explanation of a table format like Apache Iceberg.
Go read it too! See below…
I’m Sven, I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape the future, one powered by data.
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider…
This week I just started to prepare a workshop on refactoring in the data space, something that seems to be really hard for people.
Just then I stumbled over the “Dbt Labs Refactoring Guide” which surprised me with one thing: It’s missing the essential first step to refactoring.
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Some longer-form writing bug bit me this week. I for some reason ended up writing three big data points about MeltanoLabs, Federated Computational Governance, and response to Tristan Handys latest newsletter.
Read about it below…
I’m Sven, I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape the future, one powered…
I’ve been on a network effect “binge” lately, working on some company evaluation models that include them as a large part.
One thing I stumbled over was the venture fund NfX, which publishes some great content in that direction.
Read about it below…
I’m Sven, I collect “Data Points” to…
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Feedback! I introduced the feedback option at the bottom of the newsletter, and am getting quite…
I’ve been looking through the database market lately and just stumbled over the fact that I was apparently a bit wrong about terminusDB, and right about the importance of open-source.
Let’s take a look at the whole story…
I’m Sven, I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape the…
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