Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.' 020
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I wrote about the modern data stack growing up (dbt @ $100m, fivetran @ $300m) in our latest newsletter - streamkap.substack.com/p/the-modern...streamkap.substack.comThe Modern Data Stack Grows UpMDS is dead, or is it? 👀 031
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The Streamkap newsletter is live - give us a follow! open.substack.com/pub/streamka...open.substack.com🌊 The First-Ever Streamkap NewsletterStreaming data, shift-left architecture, and BYOC (bring your own cloud) deployments. 020
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Would love to see if someone has looked at their real-world implications for their account. More details here on the changes - fivetran.com/docs/usage-b... 000
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025New Fivetran pricing is coming March 1. Has anyone done an analysis of your usage and found the impact? Before this was official I ran into a few companies where they had separate MAR rates by connector (slightly different from the new stuff), and it was a nightmare. 110
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I would think so, but also open's up Snowflake opportunity to own more upstream processing. In enterprise I think they lose some of those workloads to Spark streaming in Databricks and Confluent. 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025@streamkap.bsky.social is, I believe, the only company that offers Kafka BYOC. Our model is application first rather than just providing underlying infrastructure like Redpanda/Confluent/Warpstream. Our customers love the approach. Expecting to see a lot more of this in 2025 🚀 000
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Streaming opens up lower latency but it also power the increasing shift-left architectures. Reducing latency, cost and complexity by moving data processing to the stream to power operational and customer-facing processes. 100
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This is the convergence of several huge trends. Cloud adoption with a desire to maintain data residency/ownership compounded by AI dramatically increasing the value of enterprise data. US companies won't send their data to DeepSeek servers in China but many would run the models in their own cloud. 130
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Our customers @streamkap.bsky.social are loving our BYOC and it's driving much faster adoption in enterprise and generally in industries like finance and healthcare. 100
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This follows a $220m acquisition of Warpstream by Confluent last year, which was anchored on the strength of Warpstream's BYOC offering. 100
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025BYOC streaming is so hot right now. Rumors swirling around a potential $1.5B acquisition of Redpanda by Snowflake. 100
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The gap between what you see in customer accounts and what LinkedIn/Twitter can be pretty dang big 100
Reposted by Paul DudleyMatthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 25/01/2025Alex Dean is one of my favorite people and I always learn something new when he gives a talk. Here he is on sensory systems for AI agents. #DDT25 222
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I’m on the west side of the city and definitely had some very heavy rain and some gusts as the storm line came through. 100
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Doubly so if you don’t want a huge one. We found a nice looking small one but it is not good at its job. 020
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Haven't been climbing since returning to California but did a bunch of gym climbing in London 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Great when it’s done right but it’s not very easy 110
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024too true, some say it's because you actually land in France and have to taxi across Belgium into the Netherlands 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The funniest part about this route is that you spend more time taxiing at Schipol than you spend in the air on the way there. 110
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I'm pretty sure it's because of the second point, it probably means the recruiter don't have an exclusive contract with the company so if people come in through another channel they lose out. 110
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024media.tenor.coma man is standing in a living room holding a tray of food and drinks .ALT: a man is standing in a living room holding a tray of food and drinks . 020
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Wild, they almost don’t have any shared temperatures 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024He was the first black player in the MLB so he is a meaningful historical figure not just a regular baseball player. Still acceptable for a brit not to know but I felt like I sold him short a bit there. 120
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Baseball player, acceptable for a brit not to know 130
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Row based partitioning in the background looks more stable. 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024It’s gonna be something about a hotdog being a sandwich 020
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024maybe that's not actually an old adage and it's just something someone said to me one time, but it stuck with me! 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Reminds me of the business adage from somewhere, "You don't get extra points for doing it the hard way" 140
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It turned out to be literally a problem with downloading it, I pushed him towards replit for a simpler more guided experience. 010
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Replit 100 day python course looks good, probably way too much but imagine the first few 'days' would be a good starting place. 110
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Awesome, multiple suggestions, will get him a copy 000
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024maybe #databs can help, any recommendations on the best starter materials for #python for a non-tech person 501
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Can’t say I expected to get this text from my eighty something year old dad this morning 3282
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024SF data folks - the 5th SF Low-Key Data meetup is coming up tomorrow evening - come out and join us - #databs lu.ma/6nitku6klu.maLow-Key Data Happy Hour - San Francisco · LumaLow-key data happy hour - no speakers, no sponsors, and everyone buys their own drinks - just data folks talking data! 021
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Logitech MX master 3, even Tim Cook uses one with his Mac 000
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Perfect, at that price you can use them as permanent fasteners 000