I feel it's a bit weird to redirect "Get started" to a Stripe page. When clicking on Get started i'd love to see more what's behind like it's used to be.
Supporting Iceberg is eventually having people leaving you because they have better elsewhere, but this is birectionnal, it means you can welcome people from Databricks because you have feature parity.
Feels old when you see how it played out to become SQL for everything in the data ecosystem lately.
Even though SQL as flaws, maybe a lot, it has one upside which is: it's so easy to onboard people on it, in the data ecosystem (warehousing etc.) it means that we can do way much stuff faster than before and hire less technical people, which is great
“888” is eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation, which is a great thing.
The ironic part of it is that most of the people doing 996 are building AI to replace humans work. And this is something that we don't talk about when speaking about 996. It's only a privilege, a lot of people would love to have normal job or a 996.
I come from Europe, I've had my high and lows when it comes to work hours, I was a consultant worked a lot, then a freelance and worked 2 day a week, now startup founder (YC) I don't count my hours but I'm close to working 6 days a week. To be honest the 4 years I worked 2 days a week were awesome and I'd wish everyone to reach that state where work is not the most important thing you do each week.
Except Databricks or Snowflake I have trouble seeing who in the data space would like to buy them. They are small among the big data companies ($1B rev)
Nonetheless i like the idea.