1) my top-level takeaways on DeepSeek's smallpond: a distributed data processing framework used for training LLMs #databs

One of my favorite things we do on the DX team is when there's a differing viewpoint we each lay out our level of conviction. Often, but not always the lower conviction person will cede to the higher conviction - great sign of a high trust team.

Must read new post from @joellab.es docs.getdbt.com/blog/the-lev...

Major industry news today: dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab... This is, in my opinion, a complete game changer for dbt.

dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs! Early reviews:

Today, we’re announcing that dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs. This a monumental day for dbt Labs and the entire dbt Community Thread on what that means 🧵 www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab...

Big things cooking at the team meeting today

It's my birthday! My request - share a song, album or playlist that you love for me to listen to.

My Airbnb has a smart fridge with a memo feature (?) and I couldn’t help myself

This just in - O1 preview coming out in favor of the Oxford Comma. Check the Analytics Engineering Roundup tomorrow to see how the proofreading went and catch some great posts from @faithebear.bsky.social, @rovingrob.bsky.social and more.

Realizing it's a huge miss that I haven't started a newsletter called dbt Blabs yet

Full house at the NYC dbt Meetup tonight

This paper is really worth reading. Shakes up two common tropes that we've been hearing about how AI impacts work: - That AI is useful for rote tasks but not novel or creative work - That AI flattens the curve between high and low performers

yes i know it's vendor content but i'm really proud of this blog and worked for many weeks on it, please enjoy and lmk thoughts: docs.getdbt.com/blog/test-sm...

early days still for #iceberg, but you can't ignore a PR that shows me the end of the table format wars is nigh. Delta-only deletion vectors to land in v3 spec Incredible to see SWEs from DBRX, SNOW, GCP, and more chime in. Nature is healing. Iceberg is real! #databs github.com/apache/icebe...

New record

“I’ve never been part of the Jinja haters league. I’m not part of the Jinja defender squad, but I’m also not part of the Jinja haters league” @joellab.es

Starting off the offsite with my most important piece of thought technology - the mood meter

[guy who used an LLM to write his wedding vow but accidentally used Golden Gate Claude] “You rolled into my life like the fog rolling into the San Francisco Bay

The optimal experience while flying is watching Aquaman 2 with no sound while listening to the new episode of Acquired podcast

The energy I bring to Bluesky

Committing to sharing more about how the DX team at dbt Labs operates - I believe we've found a formula that is uniquely effective for building great products (also helps when you've got a kickass team @dataders.bsky.social @daveconnors3.bsky.social) www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we...

Headed to Chicago for the dbt Labs DX team offsite. We're going to be talking all things dbt - Product, Community and more. Anything that should be on our mind?

26x YoY growth for Waymo rides (up to 312,000 a month). Now we just need to get them out to NYC! Thanks for the great chart @natbullard.bsky.social.

Was on a zoom call with my team and everyone started absolutely losing it. They told me to go to slack to find out why and this is what I saw

jumping on the train to share what I view as my "pièce de résistance": the hypermodern metapyramid of data pyramids

In honor of data twitter reconsistuting and a new factorio expansion, I feel like I have to bring back this classic data twitter meme from a conversation between me and @gwenwindflower.bsky.social

Pros of the Waymo event in NYC last night: Got to meet some of the awesome people bringing self driving to NYC in tech + City Gov Cons of the Waymo event: They did not let me drive the car