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Anything owned by the platforms is implicitly meant to perpetuate lock-in and their fat margins A standalone, good catalog is the path toward data liberation ✊

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

are you the hero we need? I would personally fund you going and building a standalone catalog (as long as you call it “Spite”)

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Ideally yes but idk if there is money to be made there so I’m skeptical Also to be clear I’m talking iceberg catalog - not “data catalog” as understood in MDS last few years

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

The catalog space needs to get sorted out. Snowflake is trying to control it with Polaris, but that’s because they want to stay in the write path themselves and make sure that their engine can always be more performant. Someone needs to step up with an alternative.

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

had no idea hightouch was this punk rock fully revolting against DST, if you recognize it it’s your problem

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

You kid

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

nah he’s a big memory safety guy

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

george is already post duckdb, he wrote his own next-gen serverless hybrid query engine backed by a yet-unreleased high performance multi modal file format built for the ground-up for high performance AI apps

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Barry McCardel @barrald.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

ok is this bsky thing actually happening this time?!?

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