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5 days ago

What the heck is GlareDB?

Introduction It has been a while since my last “What the heck is??” article, and I’ve recently seen some rapid growth from GlareDB and wanted to learn more. What really piqued my interest was the recent announcements of support for Apache Iceberg and a new hybrid execution model. So, what the…

Python

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What the heck is GlareDB?
What the heck is GlareDB?
Python

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Sep 9

DevRel: To be, or not to be, a personality?

Developer Relations/Advocacy, or “DevRel” is a relatively recent formalization of an activity that has been going on for decades now. When I had my own Linux software company from about 1999 to 2010 that was heavy on KDE, I would engage in this all the time. It was harder back…

Developer Relations

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DevRel: To be, or not to be, a personality?
DevRel: To be, or not to be, a personality?
Developer Relations

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Oct 25, 2022

Kate Sanchez and The Bealls: Why do they care so much?

Something strange is afoot in California Republican circles. As usual, disgraced Rancho Santa Margarita city councilman Tony Beall and his wife (Assemblywoman Laurie Davies chief of staff) Jennifer Beall are in the middle of it all. We know that both Tony and Jennifer have been found guilty of campaign finance…

Politics

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Kate Sanchez and The Bealls: Why do they care so much?
Kate Sanchez and The Bealls: Why do they care so much?
Politics

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Oct 13, 2022

What The Heck Is PRQL?

Introduction When I did my first “What The Heck Is…?” on DuckDB a few months ago, I expected that to be a one-off, but then I ran across Malloy and did another one. Now I’ve run across PRQL (pronounced Prequel) which stands for “Pipelined Relational Query Language”, and I’m wondering what…

Sql

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What The Heck Is PRQL?
What The Heck Is PRQL?
Sql

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Oct 12, 2022

What Does 50% Electric Cars Mean To The Grid?

Introduction In August of 2021, President Biden announced a goal to have 50% electric cars in the US by 2030. In mid-July of 2022, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg was at a hearing in the House and questioned on this goal and the practical problems. What was stunning in his responses is…

Green Energy

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What Does 50% Electric Cars Mean To The Grid?
What Does 50% Electric Cars Mean To The Grid?
Green Energy

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Oct 10, 2022

What The Heck is Malloy?

Introduction I follow some very bright people on Linkedin and Twitter (about the only reason I’m on Twitter), and I learn about interesting tech and interesting use cases by random chance. The latest is Malloy, and as an added benefit, the example is going to include DuckDB. …

Sql

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What The Heck is Malloy?
What The Heck is Malloy?
Sql

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Jul 24, 2022

Introducing the Gobol Language

I was quite busy during Y2K fixing software systems (yes, they needed fixing, the only reason everything didn’t collapse is that a lot of people worked very hard to make sure it didn’t) and something that was always a big deal with EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Not necessarily ANSI EDI…

Etl

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Introducing the Gobol Language
Introducing the Gobol Language
Etl

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Apr 26, 2022

Jennifer Beall — Payroll Fraud?

Remember when we broke the story about long, long, very long, time Rancho Santa Margarita city councilman/Mayor Tony Beall and his wife Jennifer Beall being found guilty of campaign finance violations? We also covered the shenanigans with her state representative puppet Laurie Davies. Who can forget her long list of…

Tony Beall

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Jennifer Beall — Payroll Fraud?
Jennifer Beall — Payroll Fraud?
Tony Beall

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Nov 16, 2021

Cleaner Air Through Software

We just had a global meeting in Scotland on climate change and how to combat it. Whatever your position on the topic is, I remember clearly as a child in the 60’s and 70’s living near Los Angeles how the sky would be brown and my lungs would hurt if…

Climate Change

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Cleaner Air Through Software
Cleaner Air Through Software
Climate Change

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Oct 21, 2021

Spotlight on Upsolver

Introduction Every day there is about three quintillion (a 3 followed by 18 zeroes) bytes of data created in this world, and only about 20% of it is structured in conventional data repositories and available to easily process. More and more often this data is stored in a Data Lake, which…

Data Lake

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Spotlight on Upsolver
Spotlight on Upsolver
Data Lake

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Shawn Gordon

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