tomwphillips

>As long as you have queryable data

This is doing a lot of work! Decent model and semantic layer is critical, I think. And of course it has to make sense to the business/domain experts.

I agree. It takes time to develop intuition about how to use it effectively. My skills improved when I adopted a more systematic approach, e.g. using the same prompt across multiple models and examining the results, or slight variations on a prompt with the same model.

I'm surprised at the negative feedback in the comments.

We signed up for Hex a few weeks ago. The PoC was smooth. My colleagues love it.

Agreed.

For ages the data industry has obsessed over tooling when really the biggest impact comes from the organisational/people aspects - achieving consensus on metrics, dimensions, key entities. In short, governance. You can't buy that you like can a SaaS product.

We are now on Cloud Run.

After the last outage we considered moving off to Cloud Run - used it several times before and it is rock solid - but we gave them another chance. Unlikely we are staying after a day of no deployments and then this.

Rotated all our secrets but since deploys are paused our app is down.

I'm unimpressed.

Still down. I think we will move to Cloud Run after this.

You could, but the whole idea of lakehouse is that you can use whatever engine suits your needs. Now you've got to make sure that every engine enforces your access control policies properly. It just seems like a lot of work.

Yeah, me. I've used it every day for years. With a hybrid/remote team it is a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard. Whole team uses it.

I don't care for or use any of the AI features.

I hope the price doesn't go up dramatically.

The video demo is so strange. A waitress spoke too fast - just act like a normal person and politely ask them to repeat themselves, instead of reading a transcription on your watch. My goodness.