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by kfk 6y ago
I am looking into this now. Basically it’s either this or the super hard Kubernetes right? I find it hard to believe that we don’t have a middle ground?
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by kfk 6y ago
Because my team has an easier time managing our simple code vs a new tool. Also we have a lot of custom components because we use our site to provide navigation for our apps, dashboards and docs. I couldn’t find a generator that would fit a
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by kfk 6y ago
Well I had to do our corporate team site and got so frustrated with SharePoint that I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files. It was a couple of days of work. It runs behind nginx and automatically updated on GitHub co
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by kfk 7y ago
In theory you are saving some money for not using a database, redshift is also pricey. Have you considered that? The free solution is python + altair in a jupyter notebook, but you would have to decide if it is worth your time to setup.
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by kfk 7y ago
Quick comparison: 1) Redash and Falcon focus on people that want to do visualizations on top of SQL 2) Superset, Tableau and PowerBI focus on people that want to do visualizations with a UI 3) Metabase and SeekTable focus on people that wan
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Ask HN: AWS is telling us using Python for ETL is an antipattern, true?
6 points by kfk 7y ago|6 comments
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by kfk 7y ago
The sad reality is that it won't, people will be left home to die. If you think about it they are already preparing for that by telling people to not go to hospitals but to call their doctors first.
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by kfk 7y ago
The thing with big companies is that you have to fit in whatever reality they are telling themselves in that moment. Then you need big credibility points to give them a way to say you were the best at xyz, pity that you failed. They care 0
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by kfk 7y ago
Everything is becoming a huge database with some light interface stuck on top of it. Maybe you can apply your webdev skills in another industry. I think “ai” products will need webdev to sell and work.
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by kfk 7y ago
What do you think of travel the next 2-3 months? Should we avoid it? I was going to travel to Madrid end of March for fun from Krakow, should I delay this to May or even June?
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by kfk 7y ago
AWS and Cloud computing are really hot topics and it's hard to get the right information by just reading around the web. Q&A websites are great if you can learn by asking isolated questions - how do I sum 2 columns in python pandas
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by kfk 7y ago
Meanwhile in Italy they are building lithium battery factories and working on converting diesel buses to electric. The infrastructure shift will be huge and new companies will need to raise to tackle that. For instance, Tourin has circa 800
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by kfk 7y ago
> Here's my setup at home: A Rancilio coffee grinder ensures each cup is made with freshly ground beans, and a top-notch Italian Ascaso espresso machine pours the perfect espresso shot (with the creamiest crema), not to mention a fr
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by kfk 7y ago
The enterprise software industry seems quite overcrowded these days. Lots of companies still doing negative OI (Tableau, Salesforce, etc.). Lots of competition. Very little improvement over stuff that was made 30 years ago like Excel. Compa
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by kfk 7y ago
With dask we code the workflow in the notebook and run in the notebook. We don’t have to fiddle with operator as every task is python code. Dask is easy to install which is important since each analyst has to be able to test the workflows b
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by kfk 7y ago
I mean the same thing you mean. My issue with airflow is that it’s complicated and doesn’t adapt well to cloud computing. Dask runs on aws emr and eks, Kubernetes, etc.. Unfortunately orchestration is a lot more complicated than it looks. P
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by kfk 7y ago
Well I have a lot of experience with IT procurement. IT is more about cost and risk mitigation than technology. The last thing IT wants is to try new software that might blow up in the hands of their unprepared outsourced helpdesk support p
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by kfk 7y ago
Me and my team tried Airflow but found it didn’t fit well with our analytics work flow. For instance you must rewrite your jupyter notebook into an Airflow dag, doing basically the same work 2 times. We use dask and will soon deploy dask.di
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by kfk 7y ago
I have been building a backend team in Poland and have been wondering if I could apply the same skills to build a consultancy. Question, do clients require consultants on site or is remote picking up too?
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by kfk 7y ago
After building few internal data heavy apps with Retool I too wondered about this exact idea. My biggest curiosity is how do you break down an ERP which at the core is mostly a way to input, validate and sometimes create data. A lot of work
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by kfk 7y ago
I think that a good python library with some UI elements would be the best choice. The issue is that with any other UI tool (MS Access, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.) you eventually end up with edge cases or business requests that you can't
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by kfk 7y ago
I think the issue is that here in Germany there is a lot of unspoken peer pressure in regards to where you should be in life at your age. That pressure makes it hard to keep things in a flow and basically people (German and expats) tend to
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by kfk 7y ago
It depends. Not exactly sure what the situation is here but a lot of those outsourcing "transformations" look really strange. A lot of the times it's hard to prove that cost has gone down and for sure quality did. One wonders
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by kfk 7y ago
The power point thing is so important though and consultants make amazing power points. It’s so important I’d hire a power point master just for explaining to executive all the concerns and issues me and my team have over our IT practices.
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by kfk 7y ago
The black box forecasting “platforms” baffle me. AWS has been pushing a forecasting module lately. They push the exact same thing to big corp and small start ups. Then they just push “forecasting” without putting it into a context. As this
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by kfk 7y ago
Not the parent but a good goal for me is a goal that will stand the test of time. If your change is fundamentally a good one and is part of a strong industry trend it will more likely succeed. I have been pushing a consolidation system for
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by kfk 7y ago
Yes but today you compete with everybody else. If you are in a crowded space, i.e. analytics, your ideas will have to compete with ideas of many other bigger players with bugger marketing budgets. You also more or less advertise in the same
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by kfk 7y ago
Just keep in mind that if your thinking is heresy you either have a way to show results quickly or a huge marketing budget. Being right today doesn't mean people will listen. With so much noise on the web credibility is a huge driver f
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by kfk 7y ago
It’s a bit of a mess right now. AWS is eating this market but frankly their products are not that great. Their ETL tool which does parallel execution and all is called Glue which is a cloud version of Spark. Glue is supposed to integrate wi
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by kfk 7y ago
I mean we don't really use espresso machines in Italy, we use moca's. Moca machines can run easily on a camp stove. Try it, you'll get better coffee from a camp stove than most espresso machines, promised!

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