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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 30/09/2026

If you are searching for your next book to read, check out unread.world - after rating a few books you've read the app can recommend what to read next! Made with ❤️ by some good friends.

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Books worth reading — Unread

Discover books matched to your taste with Unread. Search titles, add ratings, and discover books that are worth reading.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 26/05/2026

Nice I saw that on LI, I will share it with the group

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 26/05/2026

Thank you! Building the data community is hard work, as you know ❤️

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 17/05/2026

Join us on the EV side!

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 24/04/2026

Void Kitties are the best!

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 18/04/2026

My bluesky feed is showing me tons of posts about people's dog's dying?? How do I make it stop???

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 23/02/2026

I just started Google AI Pro with Antigravity for $20 a month and it includes access to Gemini and Claude models. I've hit the limits on Claude a few times but not bad.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 09/02/2026

Markdown for sure. You can read it as plain text or render it, it is widely accepted across the development community, and AI speaks it very well.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 15/01/2026

Agreed, hybrid is the worst.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 30/12/2025

Timely link because I'm currently struggling with this. The article is interesting and not at all what I expected. I've always heard Silver is supposed to be the integration layer using 3NF, not star schema. So many more questions! www.databricks.com/glossary/med...

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What is a Medallion Architecture?

A medallion architecture is a data design pattern used to logically organize data in a lakehouse, with the goal of improving the structure and quality of data.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I just want everyone to know that if we are connected on here, I’m rooting for you. For your career, your creative endeavor, your happiness, whatever you are chasing. I hope it happens for you!

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 10/11/2025

While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites quad9.net/news/blog/wh...

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Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 06/11/2025

Perhaps using unnest? select unnest(value, recursive := true) from read_json('~/Data/example.json')

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 26/09/2025

Any meetup.com organizers that have successfully moved their community to another platform? I would be interested in hearing your experience

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 01/09/2025

My blogging motivation has declined a lot over the years... then the endless Hugo breaking changes pretty much killed it for good. Do you know how much work it would be to convert a Hugo blog over to Zola?

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 28/08/2025

Conspiracy theory: Databricks is deliberately making your clusters start up super slowly so that you want to pay more to use serverless. #dataBS

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 10/06/2025

I've been working on visualizing JOINs for some beginner SQL workshops. Here is LEFT JOIN. Thoughts? #databs youtu.be/ZSxtZAulogo?...

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Visualizing a SQL LEFT JOIN

YouTube video by Kit Menke

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 21/05/2025

Moving from Azure Data Studio to VSCode but ugh... the VSCode SQL Server extensions are so frustrating to use.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 25/04/2025

I met my wife on xanga! ♥️

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 10/04/2025

Couple of big announcements from @cloudflare.social today for folk in #dataBS: * Acquisition of Arroyo, launch of Pipelines for streaming ingestion: blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-a... * Launch of R2 Data Catalog—a managed Apache Iceberg catalog for R2 blog.cloudflare.com/r2-data-cata...

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Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines

We’ve just shipped our new streaming ingestion service, Pipelines — and we’ve acquired Arroyo, enabling us to bring new SQL-based, stateful transformations to Pipelines and R2.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 19/02/2025

Databricks recently changed the default notebook format from "source" (.py, .sql, .scala) to IPYNB which seems to indicate they will be getting rid of the source format. IMO, the ipynb format brings a few issues like difficult diffs and the potential to leak data learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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December 2024 - Azure Databricks

December 2024 release notes for new Azure Databricks features and improvements.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 05/02/2025

I had an HDMI KVM but it was still annoying to switch back and forth. Plus I wanted to use the full resolution at 144Hz on my gaming PC. Now I just have a big desk with separate keyboards/mice/monitors.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 05/02/2025

Yes, I'm working on this right now and talking about how we can potentially "upgrade" some of the dimensions without breaking everything. 🙃

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 05/02/2025

I found this while looking through some scratch notes. I don't now recall what the context was, but it's an interesting thought on the evolution of the data warehouse. (Though there is an equivocation imbedded in this history) #databs

1988 Data Warehouse Architecture is introduced
1994 Data Warehouse is too difficult to build -> Data Marts
2008 Data Warehouse is too small for big data -> Hadoop
2010 Data Warehouse is too structured -> Data Lake
2012 Data Warehouse is too difficult to scale -> Cloud Data Warehouse
2016 Data Warehouse is too difficult to manage -> Data Fabric
2019 Data Warehouse is too centralized -> Data Mesh
2020 Data Warehouse is too limiting -> Data Lakehouse
2023 Data Warehouse is too monolithic -> Composable Data Platform

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 04/02/2025

Thanks for the input and I agree... Right now I'm battling a mono-repo used by a big team with limited git knowledge and no tooling. Choosing a tool like dbt/flyway/liquibase could help force some standardization.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 04/02/2025

Do you ever feel like it is difficult to keep them in sync with what is deployed to the database? Or with many people working in the same repo?

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 04/02/2025

Is keeping the table definition valuable for only certain databases? For example in Databricks you can easily get the definition and there aren't any indexes to store. Compared to SQL Server (or similar) where it is difficult to figure out what was deployed.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 04/02/2025

You did this only for certain breaking changes right? For example - meaning of the data in a column changed or columns removed. How did you maintain two separate versions of the schema?

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 04/02/2025

Do you version your data assets? Or is there only the current version of a database table? What about the table definition? #dataBS

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 24/01/2025

An agile ceremony / rite of passage nobody mentions: arguing about story points and what they mean.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 23/01/2025

1. Impact. How much revenue does my work protect or generate? 2. Quality. Does my work meet or exceed customer expectations? 3. Efficiency. Reward making the right buy versus build decision. 4. Reusability. How do others leverage my work? 5. Supportability. How much work do I create for others?

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 22/01/2025

I'm out walking and had some thoughts about data and fun stuff and mental health that I wanted to share. #dataBS

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 14/01/2025

In my experience I'm seeing companies using Spark switch from Scala to Python for two reasons: Python has an easier learning curve and Scala devs are much harder to find.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 06/12/2024

Great breakdown of the new S3 Tables feature that leverages Apache Iceberg. Including an explanation of the costs... which are complicated. #dataBS bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/meet-your-...

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meet your new data lakehouse: S3 Iceberg Tables

S3 Tables and S3 Metadata are two brutal new features that compete with common Apache Iceberg Lakehouse architectures

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 06/12/2024

Great talk, RIP Strangeloop

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David Jayatillake @jayatillake.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The more I think about yesterday's announcement about Amazon S3 Tables, the more I think that it changes things a great deal. The gravity of data has shifted from the warehouse to cloud storage... but is there really a difference any more? 🧵1/n www.businesswire.com/news/home/20....

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Amazon S3 Expands Capabilities with Managed Apache Iceberg Tables for Faster Data Lake Analytics and Automatic Metadata Generation to Simplify Data Discovery and Understanding

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amaz

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 22/11/2024

Having just spent more hours fixing things after yet another breaking Hugo change, this is something I need to seriously consider.

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 20/11/2024

I made a Starter Pack for people in the Saint Louis, Missouri area who are doing cool stuff in Data Engineering, Data Analytics, or Data Science. If you're doing data in STL let me know! #datasky #dataBS go.bsky.app/SZUtRw3

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 20/11/2024

In two weeks, the St. Louis Big Data I.D.E.A. meetup is hosting @chad-isenberg.bsky.social to give an overview on dbt, alternatives, and the future of "the last mile" in data management. Beginners welcome! 🗓️ When: December 4, 2024 @ 5:30 PM 📍Where: Virtually on Zoom RSVP below! #dataBS #datasky

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[VIRTUAL] A Brief Introduction to dbt, Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 5:30 PM | Meetup

In this talk, we'll cover what dbt is, why it's useful, alternatives, and the future of "the last mile" in data management. I'll assume folks have no knowledge of dbt and m

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Kit Menke @kitmenke.com · 19/11/2024

Full Stack Data Engineer

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