The swamp and bedrock analogy is near perfect. I'm glad to see how FOSS and commercial software converge beautifully in your data stack. Also, for those who doubt there isn't enough space for Snowflake and Databricks in the same data stack, here's a brilliant example that proves you wrong. @Nate - are there any plans to open-source DDC anytime soon?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - this is why I love Cantor's Paradise. It attracts such amazing articles. Beautifully explained!

Going multi-region without leaving Australia — Earlier this week, I attended the AWS Cloud Day in Melbourne — a first after the AWS Melbourne region was launched earlier this year. The event was much better than what I had expected — higher turnout, superb conversations, and great energy. Throughout the day, which started way too early…

Sayeeduddin Dagar’s beautiful musical interpretation of the flow of Ganga and Yamuna, 1999 — Wim De Winter has been uploading some gems on YouTube from his collection of Sayeeduddin Dagar’s recordings. Some of them go back over two decades. I heard this five-minute recording just a couple of weeks ago, and I was awestruck by its simplicity and beauty. Sayeeduddin Dagar demonstrates a composition…

A timeless recital of raag Din Ki Puriya, 1998 — Recently, I stumbled upon Sameer Dublay’s lecture demonstration on Jitendra Abhisheki’s jhaptaal compositions, which made me revisit one of my favorite renditions of Jitendra Abhisheki in a rarely sung raag called Din Ki Puriya. I often listened to this rendition when I first discovered it maybe ten years ago. I…

Onto a new journey of learning and discovery — Lately, I’ve been super impressed by the concept of learning in public. I’ve said it before and continue to believe that writing is the best way to organize knowledge and thoughts in one’s own mind — writing forces one to do that. My day job involves working with technology, specifically…

A peek into the different query optimizers and how they work — SQL is a simple language with very few rules, which is what makes it so popular. It is also enriched with a great number of keywords and features that allow you to interact with your data in all kinds of ways. …

On the art, craft, and aesthetics of technical writing — Writing about technology can be challenging, especially because the technology space evolves so fast; it is difficult to catch up to the happenings in one’s own little technology domain, let alone the whole caboodle. But that shouldn’t stop you either from reading or writing. Instead, it should prompt you to…

A brief introduction to databases that were built on Postgres — Open-source databases to rule ’em all Database technology has seen tremendous innovation since its inception. From the first database built by IBM in the 1960s, we’ve seen a constant change in how we store, arrange, process, access, and analyze data within a database. The 1970s saw an uptick in database usage with the advancement of computers…