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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 23/09/2026

BigDataLDN off to a banger start! Standing room only for my talk on the evolution of semantic layers and why they matter for context, governance, and costs in the age of agents! #bigdataldn

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 20/08/2026

Great evening out with the Wake Dems. @ross.house.gov was on fire with her remarks and generously took town hall questions. Lot of good energy in the room going into the midterms.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 19/08/2026

Excited to be headed to #BigDataLDN next month and talking about semantic layer goodness. Come for the talk and swing by the Coginiti booth to chat all things data, semantics, and AI. Tickets are free, so no reason not to attend if you're in the London area. www.bigdataldn.com/en-gb/regist...

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 17/08/2026

A career in data takes more than learning the right tools. I’m talking with Aaron Wilkerson of Carhartt next Tuesday about what actually gets you to the next level: technical skills, business impact, leadership, career choices, and what AI changes. riverside.com/webinar/regi...

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 13/08/2026

Had the chance to meet @paulbarringer.com running to be North Carolina's 13th district representative. He's an a real Eagle Scout, AT trail hiker, grew up and lives on a farm, and most importantly understands the needs of North Carolina voters. Working for change in the midterm elections!

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/07/2026

A million newly minted ontologists… and most of them have never even read Quine.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 29/06/2026

Coginiti 26.6 is out and you can now call an LLM directly inside CoginitiScript. New llm block type, sits next to your SQL. Write a prompt, declare a typed schema, get structured rows back, then query them downstream like any other table. The model's a pipeline step now, not a bolt-on.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 25/06/2026

reminding myself to hate the game, not the players

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 13/06/2026

Cooler than yesterday but still to hot to fish. 🫤

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 12/06/2026

finance ARR ≠ sales ARR ≠ marketing ARR none of them are wrong. they're all "correct" against three different definitions. now ask an AI agent for revenue and watch it pick a fourth.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 22/04/2026

On my way to Google Next in Vegas ✈️ Looking forward to cutting through the AI noise and getting a clearer view of what’s actually shipping vs. what’s still slideware. If you’re there, say hi.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 25/03/2026

The NEW Designing Data-Intensive Applications dropped on my desk this morning and at 600+ pages it landed with a thud! If you work in data, this book definitely belongs on your shelf. It's undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, important and relevant data systems book you could read.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 22/03/2026

Excited for @allthingsai.bsky.social starting tomorrow! Last year was packed out and this year looks to be even bigger! Be sure to drop by the Coginiti booth to say hi and learn a bit about the semantic intelligence platform. #AllThingsAI #AllThingsAILive

Coginiti, proud sponsor of All Things AI conference

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 20/03/2026

The organizations that close that gap now are the ones that will actually get value from AI and not just demos. Sharing the confidence-reality chart above because it's a reflection that every major research firm has confirmed this gap in readiness. If that gap looks familiar, let's chat!

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 20/03/2026

Grateful for the chance to speak at the Charlotte SUG this week! The talk opened with a simple observation: we've been telling data and analytics executives to get their data ready for AI for over a decade. Long before LLMs were a household term, the data readiness gap was already the bottleneck.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 22/01/2026

Headed to Austin for a couple of days of mgmt meetings and the great Data Day Texas conference! Looking forward to connecting with data folks irl, but first I have to compress 4hrs of slides into a digestible 30min talk. #DDTX2026

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 16/01/2026

Charted the private market funding for all three analytic data platforms, which makes DBRX look like hoarders by comparison. SNOW's IPO raise of 3.4B on top of their private market funding doesn't even put them close in terms of money on hand.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 11/01/2026

Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 06/01/2026

In software engineering we have blue-green deployments, but in data it's write-audit-publish, or if you've got real data quality problems, audit-write-audit-publish. Both patterns can be implemented as data testing strategies using CoginitiScript. docs.coginiti.co/tutorials/wa...

write-audit-publish and audit-write-audit-publish as data quality design patterns in CoginitiScript.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 01/01/2026

To think you could have just opted for the champagne of beers

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

Son Volt - Trace. Released in 1995, after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, Trace was a defining album of the alt-country genre.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 18/12/2025

Tuesday Coginiti announced a strategic partnership with Expanso focused on secure end-to-end data management. We’re enabling customers to filter and cleans data at the source, then integrate, model, and serve trusted data products.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 13/12/2025

When my family and colleagues ask why I put effort into hosting our local low-key data happy hour. That’s 713 people we helped connect this year. Hundreds or stories about individual and organizational data struggles and wins. And yeah, hundreds of product discovery discussions too.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 05/12/2025

The new Gartner report on metadata management just came out, and it’s interesting as much for who made the list as for who didn’t. Coalesce and ServiceNow made the list on the basis of recent acquisitions. Maybe next year we see Atlassian following today's Secoda acquisition.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 05/12/2025

‘25 replay looks a lot like ‘24. Discovered Maggie Antone and hope she puts out some new music in ‘26.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 20/11/2025

Lot of fun and learning at our Apache Iceberg meetup last night. Deep dive on MinIO new AIStor, Iceberg native object storage similar to Amazon's S3Tables. @sandonjacobs.bsky.social did a stellar presentation on the Streamhouse! Closed with a speed run of Coginiti's adaptive query capabilities.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 04/11/2025

Today I learned that Rome has an entire store dedicated to @duckdb.org merchandising!

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 27/10/2025

Looking forward to being at the GovAI Summit (Oct 27-29, Arlington VA) on behalf of Coginiti! If you’ll be around, stop by our booth and let’s connect in person. And if you’re not at the conference but you'd like to grab a coffee (or whiskey🥃) while I’m in town, send me a message and lets meet up.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 19/10/2025

Excited for the return of soup season

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 09/10/2025

Apache Iceberg North Carolina Community Meetup is back November 19th!! Register here: luma.com/4vj17iue If you’d like to give a talk at this or a future event, drop us a proposal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 26/09/2025

Great turnout for our Low-Key data meetup in Raleigh last night. Wonderful catching up with so many regulars and meeting the new people that showed up! Lots of great conversations about people, processes, careers, and the personal highlight for me... meeting someone building ml for chicken sexing!

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 24/09/2025

Spent a few days offline communing with nature and contemplating another trip around the sun. Didn’t spend a minute thinking about data, sql, open table formats, snow vs dbrx, etc. Regular nonsense will commence tomorrow after I’ve deleted all these emails.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 12/09/2025

ran across a nope rope last night

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/08/2025

@devadvocate.bsky.social covered Trino's history and the engines particular capabilities with Apache Iceberg.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/08/2025

@zeroshade.columnar.tech got into the details of Apache Iceberg's new Variant data type available in v3 tables. Shredding for the win!

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/08/2025

@thedanicafine.bsky.social went deep on considerations for integrating Apache Kafka to Apache Iceberg, especially the tradeoffs using Spark, Flink, or Kafka Connect.

Danica Fine speaking on Kafka and Iceberg

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 28/08/2025

Fantastic turn out for our inaugural NC Apache Iceberg community meetup! Anchored by a trio of great talks from Danica Fine, Matt Topol, and Lester Martin. It's always great to get to hang out with super smart people in the open source data community! #databs

Lester Marting, Danica Fine, and Matt Topol

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 19/08/2025

You’re excited about AI models, but I’m excited about this new artist series Grande fly reel from Redington. We’re not the same!

Redington Grande artist series from Alana Louise

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 13/08/2025

Thing I'm most excited about today. Picked up this Redington "Bonefish" Grande limited artist series for a new 9wt setup.

Redington "Bonefish" Grande fly fishing reel

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 08/08/2025

Here is an Ardbeg you can put on you hunt list, but you might have to hit a duty free to grab it. I had to Google Manzanilla too :) It's type of sherry

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 08/08/2025

Still part of the OpenAI model underclass. I guess this GPT-5 rollout is taking a minute.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 01/08/2025

We've been hosting these low-key data meetups for about two years now. Always delightful mix of data practitioners of every stripe, software engineers, and startup founders. Last night I chatted with a research physicist, a student just launching her career, and a guy working on G-Meet.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 31/07/2025

I've carried a pocket knife daily since high school, almost always a Spyderco like the one on the left. It's such a habit that when I don't have one clipped to my pocket I feel like I'm missing something. When I travel I clip a Lamy Safari pen in my pocket to fill the spot as a placebo.

Spyderco Native Salt knife and Lamy Safari pen

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 17/07/2025

We're back for July! Come hang out with the friendliest folks in data at the Raleigh Low-Key Data Meetup.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 16/07/2025

Had a fun time talking about building AI agents for data and some of the pitfalls that come along with building these agents. Some good questions and really great follow-up conversations from a fantastic audience.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 09/07/2025

I've started a new project this year. Reading authors local to North Carolina who write about people and place. In part this is to give me more of a sense for my new home. (It's not that foreign when you're from KY) Lately reading through David Joy's excellent novels. Next up Taylor Brown & Ron Rash

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 09/07/2025

The last month I've seen a number of hit pieces about Apache Iceberg from database guys that seem really upset about the rise of open table formats. Puzzling since major investment in Iceberg is coming from every major database from DB2 to Snowflake.

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