We just joined the Open Semantic Interchange, an open source initiative to create a vendor-neutral standard for semantic metadata. Every tool defines metrics in its own format. OSI fixes that with one shared spec. This is what semantic intelligence needs to scale: open standards, not walled gardens.

This was a nice CTO to CTO chat I did with Dave Mariani of AtScale on the evolution and importance of semantic layers in the world of generative AI

There are now 100% open source Postgres training materials. www.github.com/Snowflake-La...

The NEW Designing Data-Intensive Applications dropped on my desk this morning and at 600+ pages it landed with a thud! If you work in data, this book definitely belongs on your shelf. It's undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, important and relevant data systems book you could read.

Excited for @allthingsai.bsky.social starting tomorrow! Last year was packed out and this year looks to be even bigger! Be sure to drop by the Coginiti booth to say hi and learn a bit about the semantic intelligence platform. #AllThingsAI #AllThingsAILive

Grateful for the chance to speak at the Charlotte SUG this week! The talk opened with a simple observation: we've been telling data and analytics executives to get their data ready for AI for over a decade. Long before LLMs were a household term, the data readiness gap was already the bottleneck.

The joy of being on an important call with another executive, then hearing the toilet flush through the speaker.

Just got my soon to be 12yo the gift of a lifetime, quite literally, a lifetime North Carolina inland and coastal fishing license.

Early voting for the NC Primary opens Feb. 12. If you're in Wake Co remember these names... US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social US House: @paulbarringer.com NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social

North Carolina, it's time to use your voice and your vote. Polls are open from 6:30am - 7:30pm. Check your polling place at iwillvote.com! As your Senator, I will fight to make life more affordable for hardworking North Carolinians. I hope I can count on your support.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Unexpected work of being a startup CTO, the volume of contracts and agreements you'll have to review and redline. Almost, almost, wish I'd gone to law school at this point.

Great episode on Arrow Database Connectivity with @joereis.bsky.social and @ian.columnar.tech of @columnar.tech Give it a listen because ADBC is the standard we needed yesterday

We just shipped a verified Coginiti node for n8n. That means you can orchestrate Coginiti catalog assets and run SQL/CoginitiScript inside n8n workflows, right alongside the systems teams actually live in like Jira, Slack, and Snowflake.

I continue to be unimpressed with the open semantic interchange (OSI) so I send messages into the void. #databs

Hey #databs help me out with some data collection. We've got a little survey going and I'd like to fill it up with feedback from folks that aren't already customers. Takes 5min and I'll pay you back in gratitude and like all your posts. www.surveymonkey.com/r/FSVBR9Z

Men should read Absolution apparently. Men men men men men. Whatever. www.insidehook.com/books/read-r...

Anthropic to developers: Claude Code makes you more productive when building SaaS apps. Anthropic to businesses: Our AI agents make SaaS apps obsolete.

Lot of chatter about AI ready data and how the shape of data might be changing. It's not, but your data management skills need to be on steroids. #databs

Say it loud… “AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code. However, they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering.”

I said this at the beginning of the year. Bring The Receipts! I want real numbers, not vibez

Where did these people think they were working? They’ve got a 20yr history of leaning into some of the government’s worst programs and their CEO is a cheerleader for the present administration.

Join us for the Apache Iceberg Community Meetup, North Carolina on February 12th from 6-9:30pm. Excited to see the announcement of a new catalog of catalogs for Apache Iceberg and a history of catalogs with @zeroshade.columnar.tech! luma.com/ffv30jod

Headed to Austin for a couple of days of mgmt meetings and the great Data Day Texas conference! Looking forward to connecting with data folks irl, but first I have to compress 4hrs of slides into a digestible 30min talk. #DDTX2026

We fought the British over this same shit.

Early voting for the NC Primary opens Feb. 12. If you're in Wake Co remember these names... US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social US House: @paulbarringer.com NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social

It's never been easier to write software, and it's never been harder to get anyone to use it.

Clickhouse raised a $400m round D, bringing their private funding in the $1.15B range. That’s pretty close to where SNOW was pre-IPO, though it looks paltry next to DBRX. They've also added a Postgres service, further cementing Postgres as the transactional system for builders (and agent builders).

Today I interviewed a candidate for a sales role who had faked most or all of his LinkedIn profile. Not just exaggerations, but manufactured roles. Named dropped connections I'd be in no position to easily confirm (Satya Nadella). Oddly this isn't the first time and it's always been sales people.

Looking to be a speaker this year, there are a bunch of great conferences with looking for speakers, but the window is closing this week. AI (Data) Council aicouncil.com/apply-to-speak Snowflake Summit www.snowflake.com/en/summit/ca... Iceberg Summit sessionize.com/iceberg-summ...

There are lots of tools for data quality floating around out there, but you could be leveraging your existing data platform rather than some third-party compute platform to run those tests. Here is a guide for moving your Great Expectations tests to native SQL: docs.coginiti.co/reference/gr...

Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir

Tyler Childers long violent history never felt more appropriate

In software engineering we have blue-green deployments, but in data it's write-audit-publish, or if you've got real data quality problems, audit-write-audit-publish. Both patterns can be implemented as data testing strategies using CoginitiScript. docs.coginiti.co/tutorials/wa...

In 2025, too many congratulated themselves on AI progress using the wrong measures. Lines of code added. Pull requests opened. Teams saying they “feel faster.” Those are activity metrics that we long considered junk. They are easy to inflate, easy to celebrate, and largely meaningless.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

#philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #cogsci #academia #science

This is going to do wonders for LoC metrics!

MVP programs are elite marketing. Get customers to do your product marketing for free, reward them with status, make them reapply yearly, call it “community.” Microsoft perfected it. Snowflake and Databricks are just running the modern remix. #databs

These empirical results appear to confirm much of the argument in David Epstein's book "Range Why Generalists Triumph". Strongly recommended for parents.

Tuesday Coginiti announced a strategic partnership with Expanso focused on secure end-to-end data management. We’re enabling customers to filter and cleans data at the source, then integrate, model, and serve trusted data products.

News: We are proud to announce a new partnership between Expanso and Coginiti, which is designed to help organizations with distributed data. If you believe "there's got to be a better way to handle our global organization's data," we can confidently say THERE IS. 😄 exso.cloud/expanso-cogi...

When my family and colleagues ask why I put effort into hosting our local low-key data happy hour. That’s 713 people we helped connect this year. Hundreds or stories about individual and organizational data struggles and wins. And yeah, hundreds of product discovery discussions too.

I for one blame Palantir

All these people out here looking for an audience. I’d be happy with a nice collection of interlocutors.

Saw that Spark (Databricks) wants to put measures into SQL, which is great. I first saw a similar proposal from @julianhyde.bsky.social a few years ago.

Pretty cool, my friend Paul Hletko's FEW Spirits named to the bourbon hall of fame! I remember when he offered us free pizza to help with bottling in the little distillery just off Chicago Ave, back when micro distilling was still novel.

It was rumored a couple of months ago that Confluent was in talks to get acquired. With properties like Redhat I guess IBM makes sense as an acquirer, and there are worse acquirers out there.

Went to buy a gift from Hooké, which is based in Canada, and hit with a 50% tariff (tax). Mildly infuriating

My wife has an inner 5yo for whom there can never be too many lights on the Christmas tree.