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Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓
@rmoff
DevEx Engineer at @Decodableco. Doing fun stuff with data and open source. 🌐 https://t.co/WparjfmCF5 🔗 Mastodon: @rmoff@data-folks.masto.host
Mar 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Gosh, I'd forgotten the pleasures and pains of abstract review for a conference. Pet peeves this morning:

☠️ Vendors submitting piss-poor product pitch abstracts. It doesn't take a genius to see through your abstract and look you up on LinkedIn to put 2 and 2 together. (1/n) If you're a vendor, be open about your talk and its content. Pitching per se is not evil, but trying to hide it is. If you have useful things to say then perhaps your talk will be useful for the confernce. But be up front and honest about it. (2/n)
Oct 19, 2022 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
Big strategic decisions that a data team helps a company make #coalesceConf a couple of men sitting at ...graphical user interface, a... Although… you can give all the data you want and sometimes it'll still get ignored graphical user interface, t...
Oct 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
.@bennstancil's talk at @coalesceConf is starting! @bennstancil @coalesceconf It's hard to measure the success of a data team #coalesceConf
Oct 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So does @MySQL Heatwave "Lakehouse" actually act as a lakehouse as defined elsewhere and write *back* to object storage through a table format? Or it's just MySQL that can also query data that's on object storage? The latter is cool of course, but the naming is puzzling me. The press release is unclear, other than in the fact that OMG OUR BENCHMARK SHOWED WE ARE FASTER, WHO'DA THUNK IT?!! oracle.com/news/announcem…
Oct 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Audience feedback at conference talks is *really* useful for speakers and organisers. It lets speakers understand what they're doing well (and perhaps what they're not). It helps organisers gauge the direction of content (more of this, less of that). Reading these this morning makes me very proud of all the speakers at #Current22 😁
Oct 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Looks like a fascinating set of talks at @coalesceconf #dbtcoalesce next week. I'll be firing up my 56k modem and dialling in for several of them including: Keynote: The End of the Road for The Modern Data Stack You Know, from @jthandy and @margaretfrancis

coalesce.getdbt.com/agenda/keynote…
Oct 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Can’t wait for this panel discussion at #current22 with ⁦@takidau⁩ ⁦@notamyfromdbt⁩ ⁦@krisajenkins⁩ ⁦@AdiPolak⁩ ⁦@esammer⁩ - it’s gonna be awesome!
(and it’s being live-streamed - make sure you tune in!) Image Are we going to have batch and streaming forever, or will they converge? @esammer says at the heart of systems lambda arch will go away and kappa will eventually win out. Once in DW perhaps batch will remain for its familiarity to analytics engineers. Image
Oct 5, 2022 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
#Current22 @AdiPolak talking about chaos engineering Image A scary list of all the things that could go wrong with data flows #Current22 Image
Oct 5, 2022 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
Apparently data people are really boring people, so the hype around big data dying down fitted well #current22 Image The most boring diagram in IT. We’ve standardised the tooling around all this (except BI) #current22 Image
Oct 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#Current22 @bennstancil talks about the end of big data industrial complex Image Benn got into big data in 2012 at Yammer, right at the beginning of the hype
Oct 5, 2022 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
“A lot of the time you don’t need real time” *gasp* #current22 “A lot of the Modern Data Stack is marketing bullshit” #current22

OMG I love this talk Image
Oct 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Dan Sotolongo at #current22: RDBMS and SQL have stood the test of time. Sets the scene for stream processing by covering core concepts of tables and steams ImageImage #current22 handling event time joins in SQL using functions. Image
Sep 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Having watched @gwenshap and @ozkatz100 talk about "git for data" I would definitely say is a serious idea.
However to the point at the end of the video, RTFM—it took reading docs.lakefs.io/using_lakefs/d… and some other pages subsequently to really grok the concept in practice. Where I struggled at first with the git analogy alone was that data changes, and I couldn't see how branch/merge fitted into that outside of the idea of branching for throwaway testing alone. The 1PB accident was useful for illustrating the latter point for sure.
Aug 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Ryan Blue talking about Why You Shouldn’t Care About @ApacheIceberg at @DataCouncilAI:

"we accidentally compromised SQL's behaviour [as part of the Big Data movement]"… so what @ApacheIceberg gives us is "[…]remarkably like what we had in 1992" 😀

🎥 "We want you to care about the capabilities as a whole…we don't want you to have to care about the [implementation] details…if you do, then you're a DBA…and we don't want everyone to have to be DBAs anymore"
Jul 19, 2022 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
For a conference about data, you'd rightly expect that we use data when evaluating sessions and building the program for #KafkaSummit and #Current22. It starts with the program committee (confluent.io/en-gb/blog/int…) reviewing all the submissions with this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_ratin… The output from the session reviews is a single score for each talk, which then forms the basis for the first pass of building the program. Some talks are obviously great … whilst others are obviously not
Jul 5, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
⚡️Writing an abstract for a lightning talk…a thread 👇️

#DevRel Lightning talks are generally 5-10 minutes. As the name implies - they are quick!
Jun 22, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Perhaps you'd like to submit a talk, but haven't yet come up with an idea? Here are a few things that *I'd* like to hear at the conference 👇️ How has the data engineering landscape changed in the past five years? Where's it going? What lessons have we forgotten along the way and are going to have to re-learn the hard way? What bad things have we stopped doing?
Mar 19, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
I've been doing this #DevRel thing as an actual job title for nearly three years now, so does that qualify me to tweet some Pro-tips? Or they're maybe just tips? 🤔
🤷‍♂️ Anyway, here are some things you really should stop doing in your presentation decks.
🧵 👇 Your slides are not your talk
Your slides are not your talk
Your slides are not your talk
Your slides are not your talk
Your slides are not your talk
Jan 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The first #KafkaSummit CfP office hours is TODAY!

IST 21:30
MSK 19:00
CET 17:00
GMT 16:00
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PST 08:00

everytimezone.com/s/15d8846f

To participate, join our Slack group and head to the office hours channel: cnfl.io/slack The CfP office hours is a chance for you, a prospective speaker at #KafkaSummit, to come along and chat with others familiar with the process.
May 27, 2020 • 41 tweets • 9 min read
Submitting an abstract for a conference? Remember the basics like paragraph breaks. If a reviewer finds it harder to read yours vs another, guess which one gets favoured?
A popular conference is going to have 100s of submissions, and little things like this matter, a lot. It would be great to think that reviewers can telepathically discern your intent in an abstract by spending 20 minutes poring over the words, right? In practice, you're lucky to get 20 seconds. Layout, grammar, spelling, verbosity - all these matter!