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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 14/08/2025

Vibesort Followed by Vibe-Uppercase All actual pip installable libraries

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Tower.dev @tower.dev · 11/08/2025

Accurate ⚡ electricity consumption forecasts require up-to-date 🌡️ weather ☁️ forecasts. a-Gnostics provides forecasts for Europe and North America with a focus on key energy markets. Migrating to Tower didn’t just streamline their infrastructure, it gave them a competitive edge. bit.ly/4oAgezy

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How a-Gnostics Improved Electricity Consumption Forecasts with a Faster and More Cost-Effective Weather Service and Tower.dev – SoftElegance's Blog

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our first talk tonight is from @datancoff.ee on How to prepare your AI Agents for the Ice(berg) Age. LLMs are extremely powerful, but their data is often old and they hallucinate. We can largely solve that using agents with tools.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 27/05/2025

New Feature 🚨 Alert: Alerts in Tower! 😜 Let the bots monitor your Tower jobs and get notified when your attention is really needed. tower.dev/blog/better-...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 18/05/2025

Interesting times. Checking the results of Romanian Presidential Elections every 15 minutes @ prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidential...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 16/05/2025

Forgive me, Data Father, I have sinned. We at Tower created an orchestrator that is not a data flow and not a DAG. It has: - a way to run apps - a way to wait for runs to finish - a scheduler That's it You can't solve world hunger with it, but everything else you can tower.dev/blog/pythoni...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 12/05/2025

🚨 New Features Monday! 1️⃣ Support for Iceberg Catalogs inside Tower apps 2️⃣ Tower SDK with Tower Tables, probably the simplest way to read and write to Iceberg tables from Python code “pip install tower” installs both the Tower CLI and the SDK including Tables. tower.dev/blog/launchi...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 11/05/2025

A few weeks ago, we demoed Tower.dev at the AI Launchpad stage of the Data Council. Several dozen prospect conversations later, I finally had the time to post some pictures and the most memorable moments from that week. tower.dev/blog/ai-laun...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 11/04/2025

The @tower.dev team went to the Iceberg Summit and came back with 7 takeaways from 7 Iceberg user talks from Airbnb, Bloomberg, Pinterest, Wise, Autodesk, Mediaset (Bauplan), and Slack. tower.dev/blog/seven-t...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 05/04/2025

@lucas.meyerperin.org what is this one called? My son discovered it in the local pond

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 25/03/2025

I finally saw the GAP! It's actually pretty large!

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 13/03/2025

The ducks have done it again. Kudos to the @motherduck.com team for building a local UI for DuckDB: 1️⃣ Use this UI on your laptop to run SQL queries on Iceberg tables in S3 2️⃣ Get closer to the multi-engine, shared storage nirvana 3️⃣ Set-up time of ⌚ 32 minutes, door-to-door tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 13/03/2025

Amazing job, Motherduck! I just used the local UI to query my Iceberg tables in S3 tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 11/03/2025

Teaching 5 teammates how to fish is better than owning 5 fishing rods. It's true for fishermen. It's also true for data engineers. Tower.dev's Teams let your teammates self-serve their change requests, while you get back time to work on strategic projects tower.dev/blog/turning...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 29/01/2025

Yes, but, one is what appears to be a 50 yard rifle shot pose wheareas the other one is a 10 yard pistol shooting pose. Small details.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 24/01/2025

AI coding assistants like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the 😎 customers of 👷 data engineers! tower.dev/blog/ai-auto...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 19/01/2025

Original Banksy in Berlin. Ping me for location

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 17/01/2025

How do you run 🐍 Python data apps on Iceberg open tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure ⁉️ That's how: 1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev 2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app 3️⃣ Run this app on Tower tower.dev/blog/how-tow...

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 16/01/2025

Local-First Conf is back – 27-28 May in Berlin! Last year it sold out in a week, so if you want to come this year, best to grab a ticket soon www.localfirstconf.com

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Local-First Conf 2025

Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 27th - 28th May 2025.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 10/01/2025

Man, facebook does not make it easy to trim posts and social content. What do folks use for deleting their content?

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 19/12/2024

Final post of my series on how to build an open, multi-engine lakehouse using Python-only tools is out. Learn how to use 🐻‍❄️Polars to query an open lakehouse, enabled by a managed 🛏️REST Iceberg catalog. tower.dev/blog/ducks-v...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 17/12/2024

Today's Hamlets, Princes of Denmark, ask the question differently: "To use or Not to use Snowflake Open Catalog as managed Iceberg catalog?" I summoned the inner Shakespeare and penned an answer. Lemme know what you think. Or not. tower.dev/blog/picking...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 12/12/2024

Can Python compete with DuckDB and Spark as the "query engine" for Iceberg-based lakehouses? Wrote a little piece that begins to answer that Q tower.dev/blog/buildin...

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 06/12/2024

I think Josh Wills claimed the @spite.vc handle already, but yeah, it's a fast rising theme for emerging managers. Thanks for believing in us! We are typing really fast and furiously churning out user value.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 05/12/2024

Starting the day right @tower.dev HQ. Come work with us! Distributed Systems Engineers and Frontend Engineers are welcome to get in touch.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 03/12/2024

Kinda makes sense. S3 needs to grow, one logical direction is up the value chain. Who's providing the catalog, though?

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 30/11/2024

Thought of buying something nice for maself at BF and went to look for discounts for IDEA plugins that support Claude. Ended up installing Cursor. So far so good. I've been seeing the cool kids using what appeared to be VSCode. I am now realizing the cool kids were using Cursor all along!

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 21/11/2024

Snowflake folks are buying skiing chalets en masse and popping Riesling

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 20/11/2024

Who will be the first one to create an Iceberg lakehouse based on this? Hmmm

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 20/11/2024

Am i the onlynone who sees 4 audi wheels in the new logo? Audi-envy?

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 18/11/2024

There are a lot of things going for Germany as a location for startups. For example, my kid gets music lessons at his school + his afterschool program is paid by the government. In Seattle that would cost me $2k But for crying out loud, why does it take 3 months to get a VAT number for a business?

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 16/11/2024

I just hope this one goes better than Mastodon. I founded a startup and need the free therapy from friends and strangers.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 14/11/2024

The original broadcast of my dear neighbor Götz Naleppa's new composition for German Radio (Deutschlandfunk). Troubled Times. Processing the 2020s: the pandemic, wars, environmental decay. Listen to it now. www.hoerspielundfeature.de/unruhige-zei...

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Unruhige Zeiten – Klangkunst über das Leben mit der Krise

Pandemie, Kriege, Umweltkatastrophen: Der Klangkünstler Götz Naleppa verwandelt das Gefühl permanenter Bedrohung in Sound.

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Serhii Sokolenko @datancoff.ee · 13/11/2024

Just finished my Twitter to BlueSky migration. Interesting stat: of the 286 accounts I followed on Twitter, 28% or 80 were already here.

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