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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 20/11/2024

Whaa? This is not your book? I leaned NNs and Python using this book, and i have sticky notes to prove it. The last 6 years have been a lie (crying)

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