AI coding assistants 🤖 like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the 😎 customers of 👷 data engineers! tower.dev/blog/ai-auto-coder…

How do you run 🐍 Python apps on Iceberg tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure ⁉️ That's how: 1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev 2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app 3️⃣ Run this app on Tower tower.dev/blog/how-tower-ena…

Take a read of this 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ step-by-step guide for setting up an Iceberg catalog using Snowflake Open Catalog. 🗓️ Tomorrow's post will be about using 🧸 Polars & 💘 PyArrow to write/query an open ⛴️ lakehouse using the said Iceberg catalog! tower.dev/blog/how-to-setup-…

I am building an open lakehouse with S3 and Python and looked at managed and unmanaged Iceberg catalogs: ❄️ Snowflake ☃️ Polaris 🔥 Gravitino 🚣‍♀️ Lakekeeper 🤝 Unity 🙏 Glue 🦈 Dremio & Nessie 🖐 Hive. Verdict: Snowflake Open Catalog won (this time) tower.dev/blog/picking-snowf…

It's easier to do it "by usi" – at Berlin, Germany

The ducks are everywhere, even on Madeira, @thetinot @jrdntgn ! – at Funchal, Portugal

Canadians, opinions? – at Berlin, Germany

From the mouth of the founder of @duckdb Hannes : "Processes are the best containers. But someone needs to solve loading libraries."

Folks, chill, we still have a few years until we are redundant

DuckDB can now write code for you