alexott

Back ~30 years ago, Delphi wasn’t easy compared to Sybase Power++! for example. At that time it was really GUI based efiting

:facepalm: "orchestration/management layer" that just runs dozens of millions of VMs per day, across the three clouds, with things like model serving, AI gateway, OLTP (Lakebase/Neon), Unity Catalog, etc.

Forget Databricks == Apache Spark...

Parquet alone is not for modern data engineering. Delta, Iceberg should be in the list

Want to be at airport at time? Go with DB a day before and sleep at hotel near airport

I’m also was wondering that it wasn’t mentioned. At some point I did all programming in it, compiling via command line, switching to Borland IDEs only for debugging….

It really depends. I was at talk of architect of car company when he was talking about need to develop and support a car software for 20-30 years - few years before release, 10-20 years of production, and the critical fixes after end of support. And it includes not only soft itself, but all compilers, etc.

Plain parquet has a lot of problems. That’s why iceberg and delta arise

For Germany it’s far from reality… it shows from Paderborn to Dortmund in less than hour, but usually it’s good if you get there in two hours by train…

I still use muse + emacs lisp to generate my CV into html and pdf (via Latex with custom template)

Another nice feature was data exchange between different kernels

Unfortunately, it didn’t get enough community around, and development has stalled. For some time it was sponsored by Alibaba, but at some point of time, the main maintainer left it. Similar story with other people

P.S. I was committer there until changed job.

I was in Thailand in 2017th - mobile internet with 4g was almost everywhere, including small islands. It was a huge contrast to Germany where you need to get 15 minutes drive from most of cities to get only Edge at best, or no mobile coverage at all