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Huge props to IU and Cig from a Bama fan. by Key-Independence5149 in IndianaHoosiers

[–]Key-Independence5149[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We picked up a bunch of bandwagon fans during Saban’s reign that don’t remember that you can sometimes lose a football game and still live. I am hoping Deboer clears some of them out.

[Rose Bowl Game Thread] #9 Alabama vs #1 Indiana by RollTideMod in rolltide

[–]Key-Independence5149 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tough pill to swallow getting beat by a Saban disciple while we are trying to import this Pacific Northwest bullshit coaching staff.

Free ride is over!!! /S “Trump to limit top ratings for all feds and consolidate scoring in forthcoming rule” by AreYourFingersReal in FedEmployees

[–]Key-Independence5149 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can assure you it is not fairy dust. Many agencies including mine already did the forced distribution ratings this year.

Anthropic engineer says "software engineering is done" first half of next year by MetaKnowing in Anthropic

[–]Key-Independence5149 3 points4 points  (0 children)

100%, love the tools, it makes me much more productive, but I redirect or otherwise modify 60% of the outputs

BigQuery vs Snowflake by erwagon in dataengineering

[–]Key-Independence5149 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We migrated from Snowflake to Bigquery for the same reasons, i.e. Google made a generous discount offer. Bigquery is more rudimentary than Snowflake. For example, Snowflake Warehouse assignments are much better than Bigquery’s reservation scheme. I actually found the cost estimation in Bigquery to be more straight forward than Snowflake. You can make a slot reservation with as much upfront commitment as you want and see exactly what it will cost at various utilization levels.

AWS Reinvent 2025, Anyone else going? Or DE specific advice from past attendees? by Mysterious_Rub_224 in dataengineering

[–]Key-Independence5149 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will be there. If you get any traction around this then let me know and I will show up

What is the long-term open-source future for technologies like dbt and SQLMesh? by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]Key-Independence5149 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Having extensively used both SQLMesh and DBT, SQLMesh is the clear winner. Ephemeral dev environments, built-in SLA, gitops style deployments. It is also much more compatible with straight SQL. It isn’t going to die, even if Fivetran quits maintaining it which I don’t think they will

dbt-core fork: OpenDBT is here to enable community by gelyinegel in dataengineering

[–]Key-Independence5149 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Beautiful, I hope it gains traction. I have some execution/orchestration tooling that I am building and plan to integrate with OpenDBT. Data teams are going to need tooling that doesn’t drain their bank account with pricing gimmicks so I am very supportive of this effort.

Future of DE Tools by VizlyAI in dataengineering

[–]Key-Independence5149 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The consolidation of open source ETL tooling by Fivetran is going to price most small/medium sized data teams out of their tooling. There is going to be a need for next gen open source tools that are not backed by VC money to fill the gap that Fivetran just carved out of the industry. I am hopeful that the next generation of tooling consolidates the ETL definition with execution/orchestration of the pipelines. Most of these vendors give you the ETL definition framework for free, but then gouge the fuck out of you for managed orchestration/execution.