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Principal Eng at @saleforce. I post about Distributed systems, Data, and Engineering topics. Opinions and views shared here are my own.
Apr 28, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
What if you could blow up your data infrastructure and start greenfield?

For the past few weeks, I've been writing this series that gives a high-level view of what it takes to build out a full Data Platform for your team.

Here's your guide for building that Data Platform. 🧵 Image 1. Data Storage: (1/10):
Apr 27, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
The last and often neglected piece of the Data Platform is the Business Intelligence layer. It's what makes the business make sense.

Continuing in the Data Platform building series, let's talk about Business intelligence.

💫 Part 10: Business Intelligence: Image To be transparent, my experience is very minimal in this area so I'm going to mostly refer to what I've seen and inferred from others. If you have insights and things to add, please do comment below.
Dec 15, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
#NormConf is happening.
- First session, 7:30 AM EST - 12:00 AM EST / 12:30PM - 5:00 PM UTC: - Second session, 12:00 PM EST - 5:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC:
Dec 3, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
How is #DuckDb going to be used inside a company? My head can't think beyond it being used for local development. Can it really replace a DWH without being distributed?

If it does go beyond local, I do have a few things to ponder upon, 🧵 1. Search and Discovery: Where are users going to find artifacts inside the DuckDB cluster (eventually)? We'll need a catalog interface to surface this portion. The metadata of the artifacts in the data model (database, table) needs to be consistent across the cluster.
Oct 28, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
I did Netflix () earlier this week. Let's do @Twitter's tech and Data
This company might be popular for its platform at large but there were a lot of data industry pieces that are worth calling out. Here is a 🧵 Streaming Processing: Storm! This was streaming before streaming. It paved the way for a lot of streaming processing systems. Event processing at the earliest. blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…