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lloyd tabb

@lloydtabb.bsky.social

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Looker Founder, makes things with bits. Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Ducklake is a really elegant solution to the data lake. Radically simple and completely open.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

At Meta we are building Malloy into internal tooling (SQL shells, dashboarding tools, data applications, data pipeline orchestration). We're doing this in a way to make it easier for external tooling providers to do the same. If you want to integrate Malloy into your tooling, let us know.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

We're working on an embed-able Data exploration against semantic models. You can see a first draft by clicking 'Explore' in VSCode. You can embed this component into your data applications.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

@sperosck.bsky.social has completely rewritten the data rendering layer. You can easily build complex, related visualization. The rendering library is designed to be built into your data applications.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

We've recently added support data engines for Motherduck, Snowflake, Presto, Trino and MySQL.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

We're excited to see all the data folks on Bsky. Malloy (malloydata.dev) has made its way to Meta (team) and the Linux foundation (project). We've been really busy. Make sure to follow @carlineng.bsky.social and @sperosck.bsky.social for updates.

malloydata.dev

Malloy

A modern open source language for analyzing,transforming, and modeling data.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

It turns out that hell actually has a timezone.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

SQL is a long game, we are too :)

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

At Meta, we're reworking our APIs to allow much better integration. These APIs are contracts between systems. And soon, when the APIs are ready, I hope you will be hearing a lot more from us.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

A lot here to process. You make a lot of great points. We're not done :). The team is cranking in a way we never could at Google. The focus of the team right now is integration. How do we get Malloy to function in right places (Query shells, pipelines, applications, interactive explore).

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 11/05/2023

Twelve hours until I fall into the Zelda vortex. Wonder if my Elden Ring warrior training are going to make this too easy.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

If you are bored this weekend, maybe watch my *awkward* talk on Malloy at Datacounci. It starts with limitations of SQL that you didn't think were possible to avoid and then shows how Malloy frees you from relational/dimensional tyranny.

datacouncil.ai

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