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No I'm not. Because the people who need this mentality shift are also people who won't listen anyway and have a negative attitude. And the people who already understand this don't need to see this article.

This is a better way to say it.

Talking at the right place at the right time on the right topic is.

Thats funny, I met him during GSoC too over a decade ago, and he's been on top of the open source game.

I got a great business idea now.

Famously broken badly for anything mission critical.

Yea, in theory, the way its stated, it would be a plus for the industry and Iceberg consolidation.

How it will actually play out, who knows?

Iceberg is not Snowflake originated, it was built by folks at Netflix - the same folks who built Tabular.

But yes, this is definitely bad for Snowflake, Databricks can position itself as a very strong competitor with this move and moving more towards Iceberg.

Context: new veritasium video about this

same issues here

Interesting, foreign key constraints typically make sharding harder, interesting to see them add support for some type of fkey constraint (even though it's same-shard only) to the db. I wonder how it impacts use-cases like vreplication/online DDL - I suppose you have to be careful with the exact semantics of the fkeys.

Stalking the LinkedIn, it seems he quit, switched to a PhD in CS and has been working at Google for the last 12 years.

Dumping money in STEM probably does do something, we're all just biased over the CS portion of things - which yea, is a mess.

But for subjects like Civil, Electrical, sciences like Physics, Biology, I suspect the story is quite different.

inb4 someone saying something about mocking or dependency injection for testing

This is normal, companies want to organize their staff into the best roles they fit in to the projects which are most important. This is important for a healthy company. The manager would have obviously worked with higher management and there was some tradeoff to be made here, so it would have been let through, keeping in mind the persons interests(hopefully).

Google SRE is overinterpreted. they are a big company with lots of resources and exceptional engineers. It's not reasonable to model smaller companies like that.