We do use Amazon Athena, which is Presto with a Hive metastore.  Trinio is a fork of Presto.

Presto is a distributed SQL processing engine that lets you query many data...

I don't see there being a human version and an AI version.  I see it as a unified version.

At present, AI is cheap to consume.  At some point soon, the...

I've worked on an AI project that uses documents from different companies covering what is, in theory, the same business process.  The idea is for the middleman company to be...

Anthropic does some interesting videos on AI.  Very importantly, they spend some time on ethics.

We don't have a decree from on high to use AI, but we do have a...

I broke a reporting system at month-end.  I had 18 hours of intense learning that day.

With a production breakage, you can't step away from it, especially if you are a...

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The best manager I ever had was clear that she wasn't technical.  She was a person who had a calming influence and was a brilliant communicator at all levels, and...

For AI, the small stuff is the big stuff.

Team GB cycling under Sir David Brailsford had a philosophy called marginal gains.  Lots of 1% improvements accumulate into significant success.  Those...

I work in a consultancy that is a DataBricks partner and is focused on delivering data warehousing and AI solutions.  This is another platform for me and an opportunity to...

My next-door neighbour and his wife are both in their late 80s and have very little financially. They are always doing something or have something planned.  They have an ancient...

The 1st conferences I went to were SQLBits.  This gave me a very high and unrealistic expectation of what conferences could deliver.

People like Denny Cherry, Thomas Kesjer (to name but...

I can remember being amazed when PyCharm allowed me to rename a method on a class and it automatically updated my entire codebase with that alteration and did it correctly.

I...

I find AI provides me with 80% of what I need.  As a data engineer, this is fantastic.  I can't think of a programming aid that can boast the same...

I agree with David Poole except on his last point about the system being deprecated - I've heard that too many times and then seen the system still up...

For me, the factors that stop me from refactoring are

• I am not 100% sure of the blast radius of my change
• It requires commitment from others, too
• It detracts...

I read an article this morning about a consultancy that did a test with 5 teams of senior consultants.

• 4 were told that reports had been written by a team...