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by carlineng 6y ago
Until recently, Yelp had a giant stockpile of cash, but an activist investor successfully launched a campaign to get Yelp management to return much of that cash via buybacks [1]. By the end of 2018, Yelp had a cash balance of ~$837 million
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Does Azure Synapse Analytics Spell the End for Azure Databricks?(blogs.endjin.com)
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Public SaaS Valuation Update and Post-Q1 Earnings(meritechcapital.com)
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by carlineng 6y ago
Excited to follow your progress! I view this problem as the one of the biggest gaps in today's "Cloud Data Ecosystem". Tools like Stitch and Fivetran make it super easy to extract data from source systems; next-gen cloud data
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by carlineng 7y ago
Yelp is a public company, and their SEC filings will give you insight into where they spend money. In 2019, over half of their expenses were Sales and Marketing, so we can infer that many of the 6000 employees are likely in roles dedicated
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History of Databases (CMU Databases / Spring 2020)(youtu.be)
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Should SQL queries use trailing or leading commas?(mode.com)
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by carlineng 7y ago
Pavlo's research on "autonomous databases" is focused less on issues of data quality, and more around configuration and tuning of database systems [1]. For most databases, there are a staggering number of knobs to tune and co
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by carlineng 7y ago
information_schema (not "schedule"; GP had a typo in the query) is part of the ANSI SQL standard[1] so should work with any database that implements the ANSI standard. Note that not all databases or SQL dialects comply with this.
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by carlineng 7y ago
This is the focus of Andy Pavlo's research: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2018/04/what-is-a-self-dr... Essentially, there is a long history of developing tools to make databases more "auto
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by carlineng 7y ago
This would be amazing, but it's an open question in my mind if it's possible to have a system that works sufficiently well for both OLTP and OLAP use cases at large scale. HTAP systems today are still very raw, and it intuitively
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Examining sales efficiency in public SaaS companies (2016)(medium.com)
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Three years in, things are heating up for dbt and Fishtown Analytics(blog.fishtownanalytics.com)
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by carlineng 7y ago
In today’s economy, data is the most valuable asset a company can own, and financial/transaction data is the holy grail. I would be very surprised if their current valuation could be justified purely on their subscription sales alone.
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by carlineng 8y ago
According to the latest SF homeless census[1], nearly 50% of SF's homeless population are in District 6 -- Tenderloin, Civic Center, and SOMA. These are also areas where there are high concentrations of tourists and visitors. Someone j
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by carlineng 8y ago
Tough to tell from the diagrams exactly, but it looks like the majority of their data is stored in their own data centers, which might mean some reluctance to migrate and ship data to the cloud (“cloud storage” only makes an appearance in t
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by carlineng 9y ago
The author addresses the ten year gap in an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/14/585719252/long-haul-trucker-w... Relevant section is towards the end, about 80% of the
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by carlineng 10y ago
Really interesting. I was contacted by an Uber recruiter several days before this Susan Fowler blog was posted. I responded to him with a link to the article, and asked him if he was interested in working for my company. His response: &quot