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by kfk 3y ago
Curious, how does Snowflake compare against Redshift, Trino, etc.?
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by kfk 3y ago
I think your answer basically proves his point that we are becoming a highly entitled group of people. We struggle to empathize with other workers and, I would say, companies and managers. We tell ourselves this very simplistic stories like
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by kfk 3y ago
You are not seeing maybe the numerous consultants and self proclaimed AI experts charging for very dubious solutions. Money is definitely being “stolen”, it’s just a more sophisticated type of stealing. I have yet to see an AI solution that
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by kfk 3y ago
This comment is unsubstantiated and false, please check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ta... Yes Italians cheat on taxes, but on the total Italy is the 6th country in the world in terms of G
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by kfk 3y ago
Since I have been running my company 2.5 years now, a quick reminder: employees expect yearly salary increases, tech employees have very high salary growth expectations. You can explain to me how to make employees happy without "infini
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by kfk 3y ago
No, it's a joke that you tell me it's ok to pay for something with no clear ROI. Feel free to live in fantasy land, but when you run a business cost counts, this is exactly what I dislike about tech, a lot of talk, but 0 accountab
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by kfk 3y ago
Look, I am going to wait and see on this, maybe new facts will make me reconsider. In the meanwhile, github Copilot is just cost to my company, haven't seen much additional productivity. I guess my concern, given how hard is to hire d
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by kfk 3y ago
AI hype is really problematic in Enterprise. Big companies are now spending C executive time figuring out a company "AI strategy". This is going to be another cycle of money-wasted/biz-upset, very similar to what I have seen
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by kfk 3y ago
I am interested to learn from you how would that work considering there are a few million travelers using public transportation in Germany
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by kfk 3y ago
They mainly use Excel spreadsheets, but Excel supports add-ons in Typescript now (haven't tried building one though). This is data like invoices, bank transactions, accounting postings, cost center data, cost center mappings, income st
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by kfk 3y ago
This is a great use of ML! I run a data engineering company, but in the past I worked as a controller and I think Finance controllers need better tools. Your idea of embedding ML into the spreadsheet is really a good one. I can see accounti
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by kfk 3y ago
I mean, let's be serious for a second, MS PowerApps, an Enterprise tool every CIO knows by now is potentially cheaper than Retool's unknown Enterprise price: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
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by kfk 3y ago
They also have a problematic pricing model that punishes you for having a high number of users.
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by kfk 3y ago
Let me give you some bullets on DataFactory (DF) because it is a question I get a lot. - DF is quite hard to operationalize, the logging is not so good, Python stack traces are easier to debug and logging can get as detailed as needed - DF
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by kfk 3y ago
Connectivity was the hardest part, we had to write Python connectors for a variety of ERP systems. We have a 1 server setup where we run duckdb and Python scripts, we monitor and orchestrate with Prefect but you can use one of the many Pyth
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by kfk 3y ago
Agreed, not completely on duckdb but we used it for consolidating billing data from 10+ ERP systems and it works, so I see his point. Just to add to his points: - Integrations are still one of the hardest things in Enterprise IT. Snowflake&
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by kfk 3y ago
Coming from Enterprise and having used Retool ~3 years, I am also buffled… low code biz apps is one of those product categories that seems good initally, especially if you never worked for a Corporation, but it is really not. These tools no
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by kfk 3y ago
The biggest issue for me is people using kafka for mqtt, mqtt is a pub/sub broker already. The other issue is thinking of Kafka as some kind of “innovative” data ingestion tool, so now instead of 50 extract jobs per day, you got to rec
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by kfk 3y ago
We will see what statistics say and what the trend will be in a few years, but if labor goes up for the same output then mathematically productivity has to go down, which has a variety of consequences, but I can think of 1) less capital mar
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by kfk 3y ago
Please, look into your use cases and keep asking "why", why do I need Kafka? Kafka is a beast of a tool. Example, I have seen people using Kafka after an MQTT broker, because... Kafka has an MQTT connector. Well, MQTT is a pub&#x2
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by kfk 3y ago
Maybe short term, but long term I am really not that convinced any longer. Forcing the UI approach everywhere has a cost, these tools are terrible for operations. You can automate code testing, deployment and ops and have really good operat
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by kfk 3y ago
Anyone understands why the Australian senators are attacking Deloitte's executive compensations instead of the government leadership that signed the pricey contracts with consulting suppliers in the first place?
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by kfk 3y ago
The issue is externalities. It's not a 100% free market because actors are not paying for Co2 emissions and pollution. If we had a carbon tax and that cost was part of the price of smartphones, I would be close to agreeing with you.
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by kfk 3y ago
How does the price of the managed solutions scale for you?
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by kfk 3y ago
You will not like the answer, but it's the face to face trust and relationship you build with them over time. I know, I know, it's not a perfect logical answer, but it's been working like this well enough for longer than 100%
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by kfk 3y ago
Have you got experience on this? Because I have seen it first hand and reliability goes down with remote, people can leave anytime which happens less if you have developed a face to face rapport. No I don't have numbers, but neither yo
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by kfk 3y ago
I think this WFH articles are generilizing too much. Remote work is challenging for companies that, and I need to say this, in the end must deliver predictable realiable value to their customers at reasonable prices. There are safety, secur
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by kfk 3y ago
So your solution here is to lower ourselves at his level?
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by kfk 3y ago
I did not like Berlusconi. But I find Guardian’s approach for such a title on someone who just died a bit distasteful.
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by kfk 3y ago
I consult in Enterprise and these tools are technologically great, but their company strategies make them impossible to scale. Their pricing model usually makes them too expensive since they normally are a small part of a bigger solution wh

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