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by thingsilearned 7y ago
This is what I mean by updates due to C-Store warehouse engines (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, etc). It's not just that the cloud providers are happy to rent you more space - it's also that they're C-Store and because of th
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
I totally agree. There has been some progress here recently. Have you checked out DBT and their testing features? https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/testing
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
1. It is - and that's why I chose that example (a less controversial one) here. And though ELT is a very common standard now - I don't know of a single book that recommends it or explains why that change has happened. Just one of
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yup! And that commoditization of hardware has made it really inexpensive to have a Data Lake, where you first put all your data in raw format (so you only need to do EL - and not T all in the same step). And then, because of the way C-Sto
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
not yet. Just PDF. But we'll be working on getting it into print eventually.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
We're definitely not trying to start from scratch or throw out all the old knowledge/practices - just update them for the common data stacks used today. In the book we use much of the old terms and recommendations. Most of the hi
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yeah exactly. Much of the "overkill" was done because of performance and cost reasons, that frankly just don't apply anymore. Now the largest expense by far is time. There are a number of people starting to talk about Star
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
We use Jekyll. It's a custom design from our own awesome Steven Lewis.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Thanks! We're truly looking for this to be community driven as well. So if you see places to contribute, or where you might disagree, or where you could share a story - do let us know or make a pull request on GitHub! Besides the nee
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We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management(chartio.com)
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Chartio Is Hiring an Engineering Manager in SF(jobs.lever.co)
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Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring a Visualization Focused Engineer(jobs.lever.co)
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by thingsilearned 8y ago
Hey @segah, founder of Chartio here. I can deeply second all the comments on how long of a feature tail BI is, and the amount of work it takes to have real product depth and stability vs. an impressive demo. It takes years, and ongoing ma
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by thingsilearned 8y ago
I wrote this interactive SQL tutorial (you can write SQL in the page, and it tells you if you're right or not) last year! Always looking for feedback: https://chartio.com/learn/sql/
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Measuring What Makes Readers Subscribe to The New York Times(open.nytimes.com)
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by thingsilearned 8y ago
Awesome work Kao!! Earlier this year I launched a similar interactive SQL tutorial with similar goals. https://chartio.com/learn/sql/ With the writeup on why i made it here: https://medium.com/@__
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by thingsilearned 8y ago
Congrats Josh!
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by thingsilearned 9y ago
Thanks! I've actually got plans to write a post or two about how it was built and open source it. It's a nice minimal example of a python server and a database connection.
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by thingsilearned 9y ago
I wasn't comfortable recommending existing SQL tutorials to any friends or customers, especially for the non-engineers. It's such an important tool to learn that I've made a crack and making it much more approachable, both i
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Show HN: Interactive PostgreSQL Tutorial(chartio.com)
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Why I wrote yet another SQL tutorial(medium.com)
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by thingsilearned 9y ago
Such a great service. Recruiting with real value add for both candidates and the companies. We love Triplebyte at Chartio!
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Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring a Sr PM to Make SQL Visual(jobs.lever.co)
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Taking over the BART: why and how we ran a metro advertising campaign in SF(blog.chartio.com)
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The five SaaS tools our SaaS startup can’t live without(medium.com)
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Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring Sr Python and JavaScript Engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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Off the Charts: An Interview with Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower(blog.chartio.com)
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Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring Python and JavaScript Engineers in SF and Virginia(jobs.lever.co)
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Chartio is hiring Sr Software Engineers to help enable anyone explore data(jobs.lever.co)
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Chartio is hiring Sr. Software Engineers to help enable anyone to explore data(jobs.lever.co)
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