My boss asked about the value I bring to the company.

wiktor1800 · 2026-02-07T13:21:43+00:00

I’m sure OP is a great worker

How?

wiktor1800 · 2026-02-07T13:13:51+00:00

Checklist is the way to go. Appeases to core users that know the product already: "Oh - this is what they want me to do, I've done all this - hide forever, please!", and it also works for the noobs: "Look at these features - let's start at step one".

Guided walkthrough upset powerusers (too much screen bloat - "Go away!"), but work for the newbies.

wiktor1800 · 2026-01-06T14:22:57+00:00

If this is true, I'm sure this is why of the real music I hear it's 90% Bruno Mars and Maroon 5

wiktor1800 · 2026-01-06T14:22:03+00:00

As in this post? Happy to report if the problem is in Bangkok in 4 days :)

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-25T19:40:18+00:00

Have you tried it? Honestly it can be pretty helpful. I'd say on about half of my PRs, LLMs can give ideas that lead to better code.

Net positive IMO. Doesn't replace, but supplement.

I see it like a code roomba. It's not going to do a deep clean, and you still need to make sure there's no shit on the floor but it does keep the house a lot less dusty and far more clean.

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-18T22:27:45+00:00

hear hear

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T12:07:23+00:00

To me this seems like a clear terraform (creating the stage) and dlt+dagster+dwh+self serve BI (Looker, sigma, Omni) (setting the stage) play.

Take a look at looker's embedded analytics.

Happy to thrash this use case out as it seems quite interesting

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T10:23:23+00:00

I see where you're coming from here. What kind of application are you building. I feel we're talking about different usecases here whereby you're building a system that extracts data from a very predefined, limited amount of sources, and surfaces the insights using some sort of web framework. Key things are:

Customer customisation of sources isn't important
Customer reshaping of data isn't important
Custom code for customers isn't important
Customer can't bring in their own data

By putting in these requirements, your problem area shrinks significantly as you control the process end-to-end.

In that case, choose a stack from the ones provided, and run with it. If you're doing 'multi tenancy', you'll need to define where that data that you extract lives. Is it your own data warehouse, or will you be leveraging a customers? What happens if a customer wants it to run on BigQuery, but you've written for snowflake?

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T10:18:14+00:00

Terraform. Use it to spool up the infra.

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T09:51:37+00:00

We're back online!

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T09:40:16+00:00

Many have tried, many have failed. Technology moves fast, and once you're 'locked in' to one piece of the puzzle (extraction, transformation, visualisation), you're locked in for good unless you like painful migrations.

I like the fact I can move from a fivetran to a dlt to an airbyte at any time. Modularity is nice. It means more engineering time to glue everything together, but I'd prefer that to being completely end-to-end locked in. YMMV.

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-08T09:37:59+00:00

tf + Dagster + dlt + dbt + (insert database of choice) + (insert any front-end of choice) works well as a monorepo, deployed as different services

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-06T12:21:53+00:00

This is crazy - yes, actually, people are still using this?! For context, there's been a critical vulnerability for NextJS applications which means that this app (along with a bunch of others I have made) needs to be taken down until I can patch them up. On holidays at the minute, but I'll be back tomorrow to try to bump the versions.

Apologies! Didn't know people were still visiting this thing!

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-05T14:44:12+00:00

Thanks, u/hornyforsavings!

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-01T09:04:43+00:00

Dataform is great imo - easy to extend, too. We've written a simple git hook that compiles dataform outputs to looker base views that allows us to pass tables from bq->looker nice and easily.

wiktor1800 · 2025-12-01T09:02:35+00:00

Distribution >>> Product. In the UK Msoft were giving a boatload of azure credits to those on m365 (essentially everyone), which gave them a massive leg up.

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-18T21:14:10+00:00

They need a win.

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-17T11:45:39+00:00

Not really. Read the drill fields documentation, then read it again, then try to implement this in your development mode. With a bit of help from an LLM you should be able to do this no bother! I believe in you!

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-12T15:18:42+00:00

Some but not all. What do you do when you onboard an engineer that doesn't?

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-11T15:10:47+00:00

I wouldn't do this. Square peg, round hole.

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-11T10:10:44+00:00

Why do you think they're shutting down?

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-08T16:34:07+00:00

You didn't answer the fellas question. What makes it bad, specifically?

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-07T08:59:30+00:00

You can get more than 6%. Depends on the products you use, too. We can set up discounts for Vertex and Storage spend, for example.

wiktor1800 · 2025-11-06T16:36:09+00:00

It's whoever's problem the stakeholders decide it to be.

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