Three Data Point Thursday
By Sven Balnojan
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Announcing some Changes; ThDPTh #68
I’m Sven, and this is the Three Data Point Thursday. The email that helps you understand and shape the one thing that will power the future: data. I’m also writing a book about the data mesh part of that.🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰I decided to introduce some changes to t…
Embrace the complexity of data, data workflows, Miro & data monitoring; ThDPTh #67
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Thoughtful Friday #10: The Collison Brothers, Diataxis & Documentation
“It’s not actually a secret and it certainly shouldn’t be: documentation needs to include and be structured around its four different functions: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. Each of them requires a distinct mode of writing. …
Real-Time dbt + trino, Cookies, Top50 Data; ThDPTh #66
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Open Source Data Reliability, Joyful Data Devs, TechRadar 26; ThDPTh #65
Thanks for reading this far! I’d also love it if you shared this newsletter with people whom you think might be interested in it.Data will power every piece of our existence in the near future. I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape this futur…
Thoughtful Friday #11; Designing Great Data Apps
Twitters Search is amazingly complex. It’s not just about searching, you might want to search for people, hashtags, tweets, and yet, Twitter hides all that complexity and provides you with an amazing search experience:
Airflow at Scale, SQL+Jinja or Not, X is the next big thing; ThDPTh #64
Thanks for reading this far! I’d also love it if you shared this newsletter with people whom you think might be interested in it.Data will power every piece of our existence in the near future. I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape this futur…
Kensu, Maxime on DE, Pricing is hard; ThDPTh #63
Thanks for reading this far! I’d also love it if you shared this newsletter with people whom you think might be interested in it.Data will power every piece of our existence in the near future. I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape this futur…
Web3 Leaders vs Data Leaders
I’m Sven, and this is Thoughtful Friday. The email that helps you understand and shape the one thing that will power the future: data. I’m also writing a book about the data mesh part of that.But unlike the Thursday mails, this is a deep dive into one of my t…
No Code, FLAIR, Object Storage; ThDPTh #62
Thanks for reading this far! I’d also love it if you shared this newsletter with people whom you think might be interested in it.Data will power every piece of our existence in the near future. I collect “Data Points” to help understand & shape this futur…
Data Leadership, Learn Hex, Starships Data Mesh; ThDPTh #61
I am always stunned by how many amazing data leaders, VCs, and data companies read this newsletter. Here are some of the reader’s recent noteworthy pieces. If you have one, just reply to this newsletter.This week: Monte Carlo explains the relationship between…
Ukraine; ThDPTh #60
I was about to decide to separate politics and my work, and not talk about Ukraine in my newsletter, but then things made me realize, if stuff happens in the world, we simply cannot separate politics and work, at least not completely.A picture of a family tak…
News From Sven - Data Mesh in Action, Data as Code, Data Mesh on GCP
Hi there,I managed to publish quite a bit apart from the newsletters the past few weeks. Here are three things that are going on right now! You'll get the regular Three Data Point Thursday & Thoughtful Friday as usual on Thursday & Friday.
Thoughtful Friday #9: DataOps, DataMesh, The Missing Piece
“How do you know that Microsoft isn’t just going to bundle a browser into their product?”I said, really just to end the conversation, “Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.” And said, “We’ve got an airplane to catc…
Iceberg, Photobox, Data Versioning; ThDPTh #59
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider actionable insights for investors, data leaders, and data company founders.Iceberg & Tabular are on the “trial radar”. I enjoy both, the Apache Iceberg project as well as what tabular is …
Airbyte vs Meltano, OS Book, Kestra; ThDPTh #58
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider actionable insights for investors, data leaders, and data company founders.New data orchestrator called Kestra. There is an enterprise version behind it, it is quite mature and aims to be ver…
Thoughtful Friday #8: 10 Things Every Data PM Should Stop Doing
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider actionable insights for investors, data leaders, and data company founders. - Data has just one purpose. The only purpose of even looking or storing data is to turn it into decisions for bett…
Data Product Management x2, Columns as Contracts; ThDPTh #57
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider actionable insights for investors, data leaders, and data company founders.Column names can be contracts. We’re still having a lot of issues between data producers and consumers in the data s…
Amazon AI Superpowers, DataOps with Chris, TrinoDB; ThDPTh #56
If you only have 30 seconds to spare, here is what I would consider actionable insights for investors, data leaders, and data company founders.DataOps is still new. DataOps, making data teams more productive by applying concepts from agile, software engineeri…
Thoughtful Friday #7: FastCI - The Missing CI/CD Tool for the emerging Data & Software World
At the heart of the two concepts of CI/CD is the idea of putting up a pipeline with a sequence of steps. These steps assemble code and test it, possibly deploy it into a sandbox environment, integrate it into the existing code base, etc. The two key points of…