dataminded

Please let your actual numbers drive your decision here.

There is always someone who would have bought it for less money but who actually probably is never going to buy it at all. (Not referring to the OP at all)

Look at your funnel, test where appropriate and decision from there.

Well compensated, delivering value and respected.

I've worked a place where IT only worked through consultants.

IT knew nothing about nothing and wouldn't hire anyone who knew technology. All projects were big buckets of money that they would hand to external consultants. Consultants would always take the money, sometimes they would do the work. IT was always certain that whatever the consultant delivered was best-in-class, exactly what should have happened because it was delivered in an Agile methodology and Gartner said nice things.

Really excited about this.

I evaluated Redash unfortunately it didn’t have as robust a feature set as we needed. I am hopeful that they will continue to develop it and support on-prem deployment a before Mode does anyway.

I'm excited about AR and to a lesser extent VR. I expect those to be transformative.

Somewhere between $10K and $30K per hire. They only get paid when we hire people they bring us. Some recruiters manage to negotiate recurring fees but I have nobody working under those terms at this time.

Recruiters try to build systems more robust than cold-outreach on LinkedIn but most of my hires in the past year have come from cold-outreach tactics. They have databases of candidates but most of that database isn't actually interested in a new job at any given time and it's as productive to work the database as it is to work LinkedIn unless the recruiter has a friendly relationship with a specific candidate. Regardless, you can't sell a candidate to multiple employers in any given 1-2 year period so you always need new candidates anyhow.

If I had more free-time I would totally try doing this myself. The hardest part is getting HR to let you recruit for their open roles.

I'm really glad that I found your site -- great work!

I'm going to check-out the Singapore math Live support. It's surprising how challenging it can be to diagnose why one of my kids is struggling with a concept.

This feels like a good chance to do things that don't scale.

We write meaningful sized checks to recruiting agencies that look for people on LinkedIn and pitch them on taking our jobs.

I should have been more explicit, the things are built in Excel and Access with the front-end interfaces not VBA or SQL.

> But I would never rely on it for a business.

You sir have options. Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access. This is a tremendous opportunity for those folks. The ones who will never learn to code, never learn to deploy an application and never get enough visibility to have a developer assigned to their project.

For the everyteam, these types of tools are exceptional. I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.

And turn it off 3 months later? :-)

No. I've seen success with Microsoft SQL and PostgreSQL.

I've also experienced instability issues, it needs that VS Code level polish.

Not really. You could use the python kernel and embed your SQL code within your python code but you couldn't run cells with just SQL. It made for a very poor analyst experience.

Microsoft got it right with Azure Data Studio.

I'm glad they made the shift.

They used to be too cheap. Like uncomfortably low-priced while their people weren't easy enough to access.

Congratulations!

Obviously you don't have experience with Oracle or you would have written millions of dollars in license fees... /s

I've been using aquadata for years. It's been a fairly good time.

I have started to transition more of my work to datagrip because I use pycharm and it's right there.

Yes. It is critical to your long term success that you understand the problems that you are writing code to solve, not just the code.

You said that you complete things as soon as possible. Are you sure that you are understanding the problem? The solution?

That's the thing you should be working on.

You should understand the system both technically (how is it architected, how does it work, what does it do) and from a business standpoint (why does it do that? where is value derived? what is painful?).

It's hard to add value if you can't be entrepreneurial or innovative.

Why do you worry about vendor lock-in?

If you get to a point where you are locked-in it's because you spent years building into a solution that was your most expedient and renumerative option. At some future point in time, a future you or the person who replaces you may want to reconsider a re-platform. Let them worry about that.

I worry about development working on glue code/solve problems to the detriment of their businesses actual needs.

The days/weeks/months/years it takes to get IT security in a highly regulated industry to let stitch/fivetran have access to my data.

This is one of a handful of very significant deficiencies in AWS's data/analytics portfolio. They haven't had good tools for getting data into AWS from the various places that profit centers store it. I hope they very aggressively pursue extending the number of supported integrations and finish building the product.

This is a huge step forward IMO.

I remember interviewing candidates in 2008. Experience can be bad, experience can be irrelevant and employers can tell the difference between interest and desperation. I talked to more than one ex-Director/VP/CXO for entry level help desk roles. Some experienced candidates will do well but a non-trivial number of them will find themselves unemployed now and unemployed later.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm interested to see how your pricing hypothesis plays out. I say this as someone who enjoys art and owns a couple of pieces.

how the artists’ studio was this cool warehouse space that was overflowing with unsold paintings

There’s so much amazing art out there, collecting dust in studios.

It could be that people want payment plans, or that artists need better marketing tools.

My hypothesis is that a lot of art is priced significantly above what the market considers acceptable. The alternative to buying one-off art from an artist is Pier1, Target or posters.com not an art gallery. How does the typical consumer justify a X00% markup?

If artists priced their goods at a price-point that drove sales, would there be an increase in renown that would allow them to sell at higher prices later?

I'm really sorry for your loss.

Really excited about this.

We're very early into doing a PoC where we use DataDog/Cloudwatch for our business metrics for this specific use case. We're also looking at tracking data quality metrics. The standard BI reporting tools are very immature when it comes to alerting based on changes in data over time.

I hope at some point you consider ingesting metrics like the ops tools do. Giving you direct access to my database is going to be really challenging but I'm glad to send you what I want you to keep track of.

Take the new job. Use the free hours to brush up your dev skills.

You should have no problem getting a dev job within a year. Make sure your study is focused, you don't need to know everything about everything. Pick a niche and study that and execute some projects in that niche.

This space desperately needs some new options.

The legacy players are a mess, the new cloud native offerings are overly Engineering focused and immature, and the few startups in this space are recreating the legacy solutions in a SAAS formats

Go forth and claim the significant checks that I and others plan to write for these mediocre offerings.

Amazon has enough money to not care. The marketing from this announcement will make them enough money to not care even less.

The contracts almost certainly have pre-negotiated rate increases. You don’t put the vendor in a position to double your rates after you’ve adopted software.

It's why we are paying for Java.

Have you seen the pricing for Exadata racks? I ran the numbers a few months back and over 5 years, Oracle was 4x as expensive for my workloads. It's also easier to find AWS people than Oracle people.