sync_jeff

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Jan 25

Co-founder and CEO of Sync Computing. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley and was a Post-Doc at MIT.

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Comment · 2 years ago

Understanding why your job performance is changing is critical to both optimize costs and prevent crashes. In this post we show a new visualization timeline features to help engineers find root causes quickly

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for reading!

Comment · 2 years ago

We provide our own perspective on the high level comparison between Databricks and Snowflake

Comment · 2 years ago

We built an ML-powered Databricks cluster optimization tool to help remove the tedious work of tuning Jobs clusters to lower costs.

We recently shipped a huge upgrade to our product, Gradient, that can automatically improve your job cluster settings to hit your business goals.

This just came out of private preview where we had awesome results with early testers. We're looking for more feedback and would love to have folks here give it a spin!

Check out our demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09x6B6mtjg

To get started and try for yourself, see our docs!

Comment · 3 years ago

We ran a $12K experiment to test the cost and performance of Serverless warehouses and dbt concurrent threads, and obtained unexpected results.

Comment · 3 years ago

Databricks provides two different ways to monitor usage and costs. In this post we look at the pros and cons of both solutions.