Writing
Thoughts & tangents
Data engineering, technology, and the occasional piece of internet lore I can't stop thinking about.
- Boring Data Pipelines Are the Good Kind What I want from a pipeline: run it twice and nothing changes, it fails loudly and early, it's built for ten times today, and it never mo...
- Slow SQL Is Usually One of Four Things Before you touch a slow query in the warehouse, read its profile. It's almost always scanning too much, a join that explodes, spilling, o...
- SQL Guide When writing SQL, it is important to stay consistent to help anyone reading your queries (including future you) quickly understand the lo...
- Rockets and Horses One of my favorite bits of Internet lore is the connection between the design of the rocket boosters on the space shuttle and the size of...