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As a tutorial for using Splitgraph, this seems unobjectionable. Even the title doesn't bother me in that context. But the title in hn is off-putting - agree it
by rattray 6y ago
As a tutorial for using Splitgraph, this seems unobjectionable. Even the title doesn't bother me in that context.
But the title in hn is off-putting - agree it feels like misleading marketing.
And yeah, I agree it'd be nicer to have an honest to goodness breakdown of FDWs. Where they came from, how they work under the hood, how to set one up from the bottom up, what the tradeoffs and pitfalls are, etc.
Though I wouldn't be bothered if such an article served as content marketing for some postgres company or engineering brand myself. Someone's gotta find the writing - it's hard work.
- chatmasta 6y agoHey, Splitgraph co-founder here. Sorry, we don't mean to come off that way. We'll try to use less clickbaity titles in the future, and I'm sure we'll be writing some more independent Postgres tutorials/content as well. Our goal in building Splitgraph is to improve the data science ecosystem, so we're doing all we can to gain some early adopters for what we really think is a useful tool. For what it's worth, we are trying to keep a balance in our blog posts between obvious content marketing and useful technical content, e.g. this article where we discuss building Docker containers with Makefiles. [0] [0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile