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Inspired by Glenn Vanderburg’s talk on Real Software Engineering I ask what do we need to do to make Data and AI work Real Engineering?

A core idea behind shifting Data Left is simple but often overlooked: data is code. Or more accurately—data is produced by code. It’s not just some downstream artifact that lives in tables and gets pi...

Analytical data architectures have tended to over-rotate towards layers. This essay is an attempt to argue for more diverse thinking.

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Welcome to the December ClickHouse newsletter, which will round up what’s happened in real-time data warehouses over the last month.

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How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.

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What if Jeff Bezos had written is famous API memo aiming at your data warehouse not the Amazon e-commerce monolith?

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