Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 14/10/2025What’s Fivetran’s story, anyway? This is a wild work history, lol 030
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I’m happy about the dbt/Fivetran merger. Ultimately, it’s better for the data community to have one big ETL company headed (hopefully) towards an IPO rather than two smaller ones stumbling along, hoping Databricks or Snowflake finally decide to acquire them. 130
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 01/09/2025the problem with being a data vendor is you only get to play with the shiny toys you’re building, not everyone else’s. super pumped to be back to being a practitioner soon 😀 110
Reposted by Michael Irvinearynndoesdata @arynn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Cube did a reorganization, which sadly eliminated my role from the company as a solutions engineer in pre-sales. I am open to work in solutions engineering, devrel, product marketing, and possibly other roles. DM if you have interest or roles that you could refer me to. 6115
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 09/06/2025currently using ai agents to build tests for ai agentsmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd vanAlt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025lots of people on LinkedIn etc ragging on dbt Fusion but from what i can tell, it’s mostly vendors worried that dbt just killed their strategy of reselling dbt core careful who you listen to out there, folks 030
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 25/05/2025holy effect size, batman documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati... 120
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025can’t believe jd vance killed the pope and they still elected an american to replace him 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 30/04/2025me heading to r/dataengineering to comment “why not just do this in dbt?” on every post about some insanely over-engineered data pipeline 110
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 22/04/2025URGENT: My Candidacy for Pope Needs Your Support NOW! Hello Friend! 💥 BREAKING NEWS 💥 I’ve just announced my candidacy for POPE! The Vatican ELITES don’t want me to win, but with YOUR help we can REVOLUTIONIZE the papacy! Can I count on your support? 100
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 22/04/2025like many of you (statistically speaking), i am technically eligible to be the next Pope 010
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 12/04/2025eli5: why do we need a separate protocol for agents to call other agents? couldn’t we just use MCP?developers.googleblog.comAnnouncing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)- Google Developers BlogExplore A2A, Google's new open protocol empowering developers to build interoperable AI solutions. 240
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025wild that versace has the same valuation as like, airbytebbc.comPrada buying rival fashion brand Versace in $1.36bn dealThe deal to unite the two Italian brands has an estimated value of $1.36bn (£1.06bn). 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025if i were angel investing right now, my strategy would be to invest in anyone who’s totally ignoring AI there’s alpha in just building good old-fashioned products that solve users’ problems! 361
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 04/04/2025i guess i picked a good time to roll over my old 401k 🥴 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025just saw the phrase “vibe marketing” and i think i might poke my eyes out 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 01/04/2025good post that answered some of my questions about Iceberg and confirmed that other ones aren’t crazy! (e.g. won’t you have huge egress costs unless you’re *really* careful?) worth a read 110
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 01/04/2025i’ve noticed there’s a gap between how excited SWEs and data people are about AI. not sure what explains it. poor experiences with text-to-sql tools? concerns about being replaced? 010
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 31/03/2025very funny reddit post every comment is “we use Snowflake for SQL and Databricks for ML” and then half the replies are “you don’t need Databricks for that,” and the other half are “you don’t need Snowflake for that”reddit.comFrom the dataengineering community on RedditExplore this post and more from the dataengineering community 120
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 28/03/2025you hear a lot of people compare the AI labs to cloud providers like “openai is the next aws” but i wonder if the cloud data warehouses are a better comparison is openai actually just the next snowflake? 100
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 26/03/2025fun things happening in the district just north of me! 120
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 26/03/2025honestly i didn’t think google had it in them to build a SOTA model. impressed. 100
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 23/03/2025when the interviewer starts asking their question and it’s the one you practiced on leetcode last night 010
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 23/03/2025gonna be honest with y’all, basketball is an unwatchable sport… they score too often… 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 22/03/2025one thing i’m interested in is: who is responsible for deploying (internal) AI agents/apps at companies? it feels to me like it should be the data team, at least at smaller companies without a traditional IT org. but i’m not sure how often it is. who’s in charge of it (if anyone) for your company? 120
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 22/03/2025my main career goal is to get data engineers using typescript instead of python 210
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 21/03/2025the best part about having a baby is you don’t have time to follow the news the worst part about having a baby is you don’t have time to follow formula 1 220
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 20/03/2025i’ll be honest, i don’t understand the MCP hype i think it’s mostly driven by non-technical people whose understanding is just “wow, you can make ANY TOOL work with llms!!! 🤩” what am i missing? 130
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 20/03/2025other children’s authors: “harry was good, voldemort was evil. the end!” philip pullman: “your mission is to kill God and overthrow Heaven. you will be opposed by your mother. her primary profession is severing children’s souls from their bodies.” 020
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 19/03/2025duckdb has been around for 3.5 years longer than chatgpt but every post about it on here, hn, etc. still gets as much or more engagement than all the ai stuff people are hyping wild 080
Reposted by Michael Irvinealec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going. 8939421648
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 18/03/2025i asked chatgpt to fill out my march madness bracket this year there were some gems but this was the best: 000
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025there are basically only 2 companies making a profit on AI right now: nvidia (obviously), and… accenture 👀 020
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025earlier this week, OpenAI announced two new “agentic” tools: the Responses API and the Agents SDK i’ll skip “what are they?” because you’ve probably seen (if not, see the link below). but why are they important? (spoiler: it’s not *just* because agents are all the rage right now)openai.comNew tools for building agentsWe’re evolving our platform to help developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents. 100
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025you have to admire Sigma’s commitment to making “data apps” happen like two years after everyone else moved on 100
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025under-appreciated point that the main beneficiary of Trump’s tariff chaos is China 131
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 08/03/2025interesting post with a non-hypey perspective on LLMs and AGI. imo most of the AGI hype is just marketing for the big labs (and their secondary rounds) but looking past the hype doesn’t have to mean thinking they’re not useful! www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv... 030
Michael Irvine @mjirv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025i haven’t had a chance to use either yet, but i really like the idea behind sqlmesh’s virtual data environments and now this (dlt+ cache) the analytics engineering dev workflow is finally getting some major upgrades!dlthub.comData Engineers, stop testing in production!Software engineers don’t test in production. Why are data engineers still doing it? How to fix it? read on... 111
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