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Nick Schrock

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7 years

Jeff Dean and co at GOOG just released a paper showing how machine-learned indexes can replace B-Trees, Hash Indexes, and Bloom Filters. Execute 3x faster than B-Trees, 10-100x less space. Executes on GPU, which are getting faster unlike CPU. Amazing.

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The terms "data cleaning" and "data wrangling" should be retired. They undervalue and trivialize the work. It is the design and construction of an organization's data products that outlive any particular model or dashboard. It's the bulk of the work and it's hard.

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@webdevMason In Cuomo's America, this nurse in Israel that grabbed a pizza boy to vaccinate when a vaccine was about to expire would be fined a million dollars.

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Here's a prediction: This is the moment Buffet has been waiting for his entire career. Berkshire has 125B in cash and a universe of distressed assets to buy (when the time is right) with real, underlying value. Buffet is going to end his career in a blaze of glory.

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Microservices are such a fundamentally and catastrophically bad idea that there are going to an entire cohort of multi-billion companies built that do nothing but contain the damage that they have wrought.

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All the dunking on the Zillow team––ICs and leadership alike––is not a good look. Business is hard, they took a shot, and they missed. Can happen to anyone.

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5 years

How is this not the biggest story in the world right now?

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Wow. Sea of protestors in #HongKong ‘s Victoria Park today, estimate of 1.7 million say organizers despite rain. 11th week, 5 demands & rejecting police brutality:

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@paulg Yes in my experience CEOs never exaggerate anything.

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Disney acquiring LucasFilm and Marvel for 4 billion a pop turned out to be a steal in the streaming era. By comparison, this year Netflix got the rights to just Seinfeld for 500 million for 5 years. Can't really fathom what would Marvel and LF would go for today.

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I can’t quote tweet @ryxcommar but this fake account fraud is one of my favorites yet. Outed by the excel row limit by bankers lmao

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From the talk about the rewrite of fb using Relay and GraphQL. This feature is so amazing and intuitive. Deliver js only if the graphql query returns data that requires that js.

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Degradation of Uber customer experience under CA’s new regulatory regime is pretty shocking. 5x wait time. 2.5x price increase. Thanks AB5!

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@Austen One of the most high leverage things a non-technical person can learn at a tech company is SQL. Extraordinarily empowering.

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3 years

My heartfelt congratulations to the PR geniuses at Lyft and Stripe for getting this story framed this way.

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2 years

Every time I’m satisfied with some engineering thing I’ve done I remember what engineers who program video games pull off and most engineering is child’s play by comparison.

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mind blown by this every time I think about it 🤯

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5 years

1/ Today we at Elementl are excited to launch an early release of Dagster, an open-source Python library for building data applications. Here's a post about what Dagster is, why I moved to data infra, why data is hard, and why we need a new system.

Introducing Dagster

A open-source Python library for building data applications

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@adityaag Live in SF long enough and your politics end up looking like Ra's al Ghul's

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Unrelated to to WeWork S-1, but I am still amazed that Neumann (WeWork CEO) banned meat in the workplace for environmental reason while gallivanting around the world on a company-owned G650. The hypocrisy is so brazen I almost admire it in a perverse way.

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Thoughts and prayers to the engineer at HBO Max that just pushed this bug.

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Should unrealized cap gains and a QSBS repeal pass while preserving the step-up-in-cost-basis-on-death loophole, it should be understood as total, unrestricted warfare by those who are already wealthy against those trying to become wealthy.

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"People think our new software is bad/not worth it so let's make them pay to not install it" is a galaxy brain business model.

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1/ Wrote a document explaining to the @dagster team why I always write technical documents and discussion in GitHub Discussions rather than Notion, Google docs, or similar tools

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California (and San Francisco in particular) is a grand, fascinating sociological experiment. Are the network effects of talent so strong that they can withstand a government that actively hates that network and wants it eliminated.

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@ramzpaul 🤣 you mean Elon Musk is such a snowflake he moved from California because I said a censored bad word about him? Wow, isn’t that weak.

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My father is an epidemiologist and believes that East-Asian-style universal mask wearing is critical to fighting coronavirus, but that healthcare workers must get priority. So he and my mother designed a DIY mask and produced this video. Proud son today.

Epidemiologist-Designed, No-Sew face Mask to Protect Yourself and...

Everyone should wear a mask in public during this pandemic. Our no-sew mask is easily constructed from materials you already own in 10 minutes, and does not ...

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React team is now at Jedi-level adoption strategy: build some really good (hooks), call it alpha quality, and tell people not to use it. Reverse psychology at ecosystem scale.

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4 years

@VCBrags Funny enough while watching the Jordan documentary I turned to my wife and said: “Jordan plays with such simultaneous elegance and aggressiveness. It is both beautiful and terrifying. The thing that compares that I know of is watching Sacca sign a term sheet.”

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1/ As part of the FB interview series (see ) I'm going to posting some summaries and commentaries/hot takes on each interview. First up: @floydophone .

Facebook Engineering with Pete Hunt - Software Engineering Daily

Facebook engineering is commonly described by two words: move fast. Building products quickly has been a differentiating characteristic of the company since its inception. From the longtime engineers...

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1/ Last week @software_daily did a series of interviews on Facebook engineering that had interviews with myself, @dan_abramov , @floydophone , @jgoldfein , and @mvernal . This series will continue in spurts over the next few months.

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Finally read High Output Management by Andy Grove this weekend. It's 235 pages, 35 years old, and from what I can tell is the primary source for nearly every other tech-oriented management book ever since. Pretty amazing.

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Noise about AAPL reminds me of this line from @BillGates about being told FB was a platform: “That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.”

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6 years

Wow. C# now will have opt-in-only nullability. Null disallowed by default. Huge change.

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Here is what's coming in C# 8.0 (by @MadsTorgersen ).

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1/ Last week @software_daily did a series of interviews on Facebook engineering that had interviews with myself, @dan_abramov , @floydophone , @jgoldfein , and @mvernal . This series will continue in spurts over the next few months.

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A year ago I sent the attached message to the @dagster team, making @floydophone CEO. One year later: best decision I’ve made in my career. Company is thriving (Series B, >4x rev growth 🤯), team is on fire, product is better, org is healthier.

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@RaminSetoodeh I think it’s remarkable that they are all retreads or sequels. Nothing new.

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How did I just learn about this? This is genius. Drive incremental adoption of GraphQL by generating REST APIs from GraphQL, rather than the other way around. Counterintuitive but brilliant. @UriGoldshtein amazing work

Sofa — The best way to REST (is GraphQL)

Ending the REST vs GraphQL debate once and for all

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1/ I posted about this paper this weekend and about how awesome it is. It's the Berkeley RISELab report on serverless computing. Wanted to elaborate the parts I found really interesting and insightful.

Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing - RISE Lab

David Patterson and Ion Stoica The publication of “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” on February 10, 2009 cleared up the considerable confusion about the new notion of “Cloud...

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@rabois This is from wwdc 1997. I watch this entire Q&A at least once per year to remind myself what clarity of vision and communication should look like. It’s extraordinary.

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs

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Thoughts and prayers to data/tech journalists: Dbt–-the leading transform tool in the MDS–-acquires Transform––which is not a transform tool, but a metrics tool––to transform their transformation tool into a metrics and transformation layer to enable digital transformation.

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Apple no longer sells any laptops without touchbars. Their insistence on active hostility towards developers (and vi people in particular) in this regard is both confusing and maddening. Might be time to corner market on MacBook Pro 2015 15”, which was peak MacBook.

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1/ Dagster has been public over a year. Last week we pushed out a new version that marks a new level of maturity for the project. We now call Dagster a data orchestrator. Here is a post about what we’ve built, learned, and principles we've developed:

Dagster: The Data Orchestrator

As machine learning, analytics, and data processing become more complex and central to organizations, improving the software behind them…

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@andrewchen I thought the FB acquisition of Instagram was overpriced at the time. Turned out to be the best acquisition of the decade.

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"Agile" 😂😂😂

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Whelp there is a GraphQL documentary now :-) It's not just about GraphQL, but also about FB's transition to be mobile-first in 2012. It captures the urgency and stress of that *very* well. Thanks to the team at @honeypotio for such amazing work.

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1/ We at @dagster have a Python monorepo. About 500K lines of code and 70 python packages. Not big compared to bigco, but big enough where some python tools fall over. One of these is pylint. We've switched to Ruff () by @charliermarsh . It's a gamechanger.

GitHub - astral-sh/ruff: An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust. - astral-sh/ruff

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1/ I’m seeing a lot of hemming, hawing, and gnashing of teeth over AirBnB’s announcement that they are sunsetting React Native. They are unrolling a pretty massive investment. Obviously this is a setback for React Native ecosystem.

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After two years, 220 screens, and 120,000 lines of javascript, we're moving away from React Native at Airbnb. I tried to summarize our experience in a single blog post but that wouldn't do it justice so it turned into five!

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Tesla reaching eclipsing a trillion dollar market cap represents a stunning, epoch-defining defeat for the cynical, East coast financial class that set out to destroy the company. Victory has never tasted so sweet. Glory to the builders and the optimists.

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The impact of Microsoft’s new leadership and strategy on the industry is simply put, stunning.

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4 years

Just got caught up on the wallstreetbets GameStop drama and can confirm that it is the funniest shit to happen in a long time.

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TIL Chick-fil-A runs a local Kubernetes cluster per store🤯

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Truly shocked Twitter is still up. In 2012 while working on a risky, high stakes project at FB I asked @jayparikh what we do to bring down the site if we totally screwed it up. He said he would just unplug the global load balancer. Maybe Twitter should do that right now.

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All the haterade for @LambdaSchool today is some the stupidest shit I’ve seen on Twitter in while

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I will die on the Fahrenheit-is-better hill.

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As a smug European, I definitely used to think that Celsius is just a superior scale for measuring temperature. After 21 years in North America, though, I definitely concede that Fahrenheit is simply better and more intuitive for temperature.

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I never get sick of the magical DevEx that is TypeScript combined with modern GraphQL tools like Apollo/Relay. It really is amazing. Imagine traveling back in time to 2010 and showing a frontend dev. They wouldn't even comprehend it.

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Dear LinkedIn: Never in my life have I wanted to say the words "Congrats on your work anniversary!" to anyone

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1/ Well this got scooped by the press (didn't see that coming Business Insider!) but I am moving from CEO to CTO at Elementl (the company behind @dagster ) and Pete Hunt ( @floydophone ) is now CEO.

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6 years

This is how you dress for a conference. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you @leeb @graphqleu

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@ken_wheeler Frontend eng is more difficult and complicated than backend most of the time. Most backend eng's heads would explode if they had to deal with a modern, complicated frontend.

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Is there a worse UI on this earth than a smoke detector?

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1/ I'm excited to announce Elementl's 14MM Series A, led by @mavolpi at @IndexVentures , alongside @sequoia , @slow , @AmplifyPartners , Coatue, @OSSCapital , @neo , and other leading investors.

Why Elementl and Dagster: The Decade of Data | Dagster Blog

Announcing our $14M Series A led by Index Ventures, alongside Sequoia Capital, Slow Ventures, Coatue, Amplify Partners, OSS Capital, and others.

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1/ This year students are facing the prospect of returning to a degraded college experience while still paying full tuition. We at Elementl suggest an alternative: a well-paid, year-long fellowship where you work on an open source project, Dagster.

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1/ @graphqleu 2018 Keynote is live! Title: "Revenge of the Monolith: The Past, Present, and Future of GraphQL-Native" It had three sections.

The Past, Present, and Future of GraphQL Native - Nick Schrock @...

GraphQL was open sourced three years ago, and released within the context of a client/front-end ecosystem: React. GraphQL has strong adoption and momentum wi...

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If you ever found a company, never, ever use your real phone number for anything ever. I get 5-15 spam/sdr calls a day now.

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4 years

Approximately 100% of my social circle have contracted mid-grade alcoholism during the pandemic.

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I read: "A deep dive into how Khan Academy took a 1 million-line Python monolith and split it into ~40 Go services in a more than 3 year-long project." My triggered lizard brain translates: "Welcome to your nightmare made flesh."

Real-world Engineering Challenges #8: Breaking up a Monolith

A deep dive into how Khan Academy took a 1 million-line Python monolith and split it into ~40 Go services in a more than 3 year-long project.

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@tayloramurphy I actually think engineers underestimate the ability of people to write "code". For example python. Lots of people could do some work in python, but they would have *zero* ability to deal with virtual environments, etc. I think it less about code and more about the infra.

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Just made a post about code reviews. This came up in an ex-Facebook discussion group so I got the original text and adapted it for the outside world. Code review is incredibly important and often a source of unnecessary frustration and churn, My thoughts:

On Code Reviews

Code reviews are a really important part of the engineering process. However, they can become onerous, especially with certain attitudes…

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@rickhanlonii Because it natively executes in a web browser. Nearly all other reasons are either incidental or downstream from that underlying fact.

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Remember how people acted this weekend. Remember who fomented panic; who spread misinformation and rumor in private threads; who abandoned business relationships in seconds that should be measured in years; who used their public platform to help and those who used it to destroy.

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@powerbottomdad1 Can’t imagine the hysteria is this were a spacex mission

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Finding appropriate zoom backgrounds is now critical board meeting prep.

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Might be time for an update on this article about @a16z after what happened today

Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data

One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, saw its performance slip significantly after the blockbuster results of its initial fund, internal data show, illustrating just...

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"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster" -- @paulg 2009 They actually think they invented the idea that meetings are a tax on productivity.

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Eventually it happened. Paul Graham is quoting from REWORK, REMOTE, and It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work. It took a virus for the valley to validate our ideas.

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Really excited to speak at the DataEngConf SF. It will be the first time discussing Dagster, the project I’ve been working on for nearly a year. Data processing — ETL, ML, data pipelining — is a massive, critical, growing discipline and better developer tooling is a huge need.

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Data Council SF '19 Speaker Announcement: @schrockn from Elementl will talk about " #Dagster : A new programming model for data processing". Book your tickets now

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@dhh @3M After seeing this picture I was extremely concerned about your health and working environment. Thanks for the clarification and reassurance.

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From the chatter in FB eng groups, anytime an ex-FB engineer enters a company, they are appalled at the number of repos and immediately start to consolidate and merge them if they can.

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TIL I learned that has 2.2M yearly unique visitors 🤯🤯🤯 Pretty surreal.

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@mjackson @ryanflorence The biggest gap in the ecosystem is a “rails for graphql” esque system. Vertically integrated, opinionated toolkit that manages db schema, data loader interactions, software abstractions etc. Huge opportunity. Way way too hard to write high quality graphql backends today.

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2.1/ Technical Strategy: “Evolutionary Means For Revolutionary Ends: The Art of Changing Large Systems” Bunch of my career was spent building/tech-leading the abstraction stack that led to GraphQL. Operated mostly on instinct but formed a philosophy around what worked.

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@kellabyte GraphQL exists not just because it was designed and implemented by engineers who could write backends, but also who had the ability to listen to empathize with the product developers they served, rather than insult and belittle them.

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A new, successful Brazilian bank called Nubank has built a banking tech stack from scratch using Clojure, Dataomic, Kafka, and functional programming nerdery in general. Fascinating presentation.

Architecting a Modern Financial Institution

Edward Wible and Rafael Ferreira discuss the key elements that make Nubank tick for millions of customers every day, including transaction authorization, messaging infrastructure (Kafka), real-time...

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🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

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Elementl raises $33M Series B for its data orchestration platform based on Dagster by @fredericl

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1/ It’s time to rebundle the data platform. Today @dagsterio is unveiling a new concept: the software-defined asset. It makes Python a true first-class citizen in the MDS and unifies disparate tools into a single fabric that models all your data assets:

Rebundling the Data Platform | Dagster Blog

'The Unbundling of Airflow' argued that modern data stack solutions (data ingestion, data transformation, reverse ETL) manage their own data orchestration. Data teams need is a control plane for the...

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1/ It’s an exciting day: Dagster Cloud, the new standard for productivity, scalability, and trust in enterprise data orchestration, is here. We’re opening up for Early Access today.

Introducing Dagster Cloud | Dagster Blog

Dagster Cloud, the enterprise orchestration platform that puts developer experience first, with fully serverless or hybrid deployments, is now here.

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3 years

This is an incredible hiring coup. Congrats @rauchg and the entire @vercel team for snagging one of the most talented engineers of our era.

Sebastian Markbåge

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Therefore, I'm joining Vercel starting next year! I'm lucky that I'll get to keep working on React together with the amazing teams at Meta. I'm also excited to work closely with the equally stacked team at Vercel.

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FB Eng ❤️

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Zuck has so far open sourced and given the world: ◆ React ◆ React Native ◆ PyTorch ◆ Llama ◆ GraphQL ◆ Flow ◆ Jest ◆ Relay ◆ HHVM / Hack ◆ Yoga ◆ Hermes ◆ RocksDB ◆ Zstandard Goated.

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IT HAS AN ESCAPE KEY.

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@sebmarkbage I prefer “tech leadering” by being the bad cop about being the bad cop on code reviews too!

On Code Reviews

Code reviews are a really important part of the engineering process. However, they can become onerous, especially with certain attitudes…

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It's important to occasionally go back and read this thread to remind yourself of what @voxdotcom , @recode and their ilk really are.

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Incredible. Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public health. Unfortunately, my concerns proved well-founded. Recode’s virus piece ignores WHO & CDC, gets the science wrong…and focuses on handshakes! Thread: 🧵

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Apropos of nothing, just a reminder of the greatest meme of the year.

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The Rise of Medium Code: Why the reports of software's demise are greatly exaggerated

The Rise of Medium Code | Dagster Blog

Why the reports of software’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

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@amasad “When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.” — GK Chesterton

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Google trends isn’t at all scientific, but still, is there any open source piece of software that has had as much impact and adoption as @reactjs from zero to five years? It’s a stunning achievement. Props to the original, @jordwalke , and the entire team.

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Turned on Apple two factor auth on a new laptop. I think I’ve had to enter my password 15-20 times across 4 devices. You can really feel their organizational compartmentalization in their software sometimes. No escaping Conway’s law.

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6 years

Even xkcd knows about the reality of data pipelines. Alt image text: "Is the pipeline literally running from your laptop?" "Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on my phone."

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2/ links: - @floydophone : - @schrockn : - @jgoldfein : - @dan_abramov : - @mvernal :

Facebook Strategy with Mike Vernal - Software Engineering Daily

Facebook’s strategy is shaped by long term goals, short term requirements, and the available resources of the company. Long term goals are necessary for thinking through big decisions such as...

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Nick Schrock

@schrockn

2 years

Your view of @elonmusk says a lot about how much you value norms versus how much you value outcomes.

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Nick Schrock

@schrockn

4 months

@tobi I also see a misuse of the rule to justify engineering mistakes that make it *impossible* to do optimizations/improvements in the future. Programs must be structured properly and have understand perf complexity. Premature *micro*-optimization is often a waste of time.

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Nick Schrock

@schrockn

4 years

Five year anniversary of the GraphQL Open Source announcement today!

GraphQL Introduction – React Blog

This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. At the React.js conference in late January 2015, we revealed our next major technology in the React family: Relay....

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Nick Schrock

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5 years

We should definitely spend Christmas arguing about how hard is too hard to work.

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