senior horse and buggy engineerhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3m34hcgtvy22cWhat’s Fivetran’s story, anyway? This is a wild work history, lol14 Oct 2025 00:17 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m34hcgtvy22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3m34ey5dols23I’m happy about the dbt/Fivetran merger. Ultimately, it’s better for the data community to have one big ETL company headed (hopefully) towards an IPO rather than two smaller ones stumbling along, hoping Databricks or Snowflake finally decide to acquire them.13 Oct 2025 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m34ey5dols23https://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lxrzreqays26the problem with being a data vendor is you only get to play with the shiny toys you’re building, not everyone else’s. super pumped to be back to being a practitioner soon 😀01 Sep 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxrzreqays26https://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lw54ey4q4s2ofyi we are here11 Aug 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw54ey4q4s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lsfisj4cd22g👀25 Jun 2025 01:52 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsfisj4cd22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lrton6veas26learn something new every day17 Jun 2025 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrton6veas26https://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lr76cwn24c2vcurrently using ai agents to build tests for ai agents https://media.tenor.com/QXVs4QWLlzkAAAAC/spider-man.gif?hh=354&ww=49809 Jun 2025 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr76cwn24c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lqp3p7stnk2ylots of people on LinkedIn etc ragging on dbt Fusion but from what i can tell, it’s mostly vendors worried that dbt just killed their strategy of reselling dbt core careful who you listen to out there, folks03 Jun 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqp3p7stnk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lpz5defwd22dchat with your data25 May 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpz5defwd22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lpyiiov23s2tholy effect size, batman https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/en/09954810519252932425 May 2025 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpyiiov23s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3loojlqevoc2k [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3loojlqevoc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3looje6smjs2kcan’t believe jd vance killed the pope and they still elected an american to replace him08 May 2025 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3looje6smjs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lnyooqihmk2ame heading to r/dataengineering to comment “why not just do this in dbt?” on every post about some insanely over-engineered data pipeline30 Apr 2025 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnyooqihmk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lnqgipvr4c2lhttps://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44869917/browns-trade-pick-qb-shedeur-sanders-5th-round-nfl-draft26 Apr 2025 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnqgipvr4c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lngeep4dos2hURGENT: My Candidacy for Pope Needs Your Support NOW! Hello Friend! 💥 BREAKING NEWS 💥 I’ve just announced my candidacy for POPE! The Vatican ELITES don’t want me to win, but with YOUR help we can REVOLUTIONIZE the papacy! Can I count on your support? [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2025 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lngeep4dos2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lneffnfbhk2blike many of you (statistically speaking), i am technically eligible to be the next Pope22 Apr 2025 00:12 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lneffnfbhk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lneajec4hk2ztime to rewatch The Young Pope21 Apr 2025 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lneajec4hk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lmlbsgayns2jeli5: why do we need a separate protocol for agents to call other agents? couldn’t we just use MCP? https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/12 Apr 2025 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmlbsgayns2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lmhubiifxs2cwild that versace has the same valuation as like, airbyte https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgppr7g508o10 Apr 2025 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhubiifxs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lmg5h74h322iif i were angel investing right now, my strategy would be to invest in anyone who’s totally ignoring AI there’s alpha in just building good old-fashioned products that solve users’ problems!09 Apr 2025 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmg5h74h322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llyj5uookk2ei guess i picked a good time to roll over my old 401k 🥴04 Apr 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llyj5uookk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lltrpiaoos2yjust saw the phrase “vibe marketing” and i think i might poke my eyes out02 Apr 2025 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltrpiaoos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llrl2i3dkc2vgood post that answered some of my questions about Iceberg and confirmed that other ones aren’t crazy! (e.g. won’t you have huge egress costs unless you’re *really* careful?) worth a read [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrl2i3dkc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llpocjkoyc2zi’ve noticed there’s a gap between how excited SWEs and data people are about AI. not sure what explains it. poor experiences with text-to-sql tools? concerns about being replaced?01 Apr 2025 01:00 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llpocjkoyc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3lloaudjcn226very funny reddit post every comment is “we use Snowflake for SQL and Databricks for ML” and then half the replies are “you don’t need Databricks for that,” and the other half are “you don’t need Snowflake for that” https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/s/Ukh7MoXgNz31 Mar 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lloaudjcn226https://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llgpvnvqi22myou hear a lot of people compare the AI labs to cloud providers like “openai is the next aws” but i wonder if the cloud data warehouses are a better comparison is openai actually just the next snowflake?28 Mar 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgpvnvqi22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llfpje2f7s2xso many agent frameworks, so few agents28 Mar 2025 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llfpje2f7s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llbout7m4k2yfun things happening in the district just north of me! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbout7m4k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mjirv.bsky.social/post/3llao6dbiqs27honestly i didn’t think google had it in them to build a SOTA model. impressed.26 Mar 2025 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:2ktpgfwt7cc2osldzh6uyww5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llao6dbiqs27