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Would love to see any of my NYC data freaks and geeks out tomorrow night!

Good people, drinks, food, and zero vendor content

lu.ma/if3ahqkj

1000%

yeah but what if your job was Co Founder and CEO of Spite, the Open Iceberg Catalog company

I am telling you I would fund this

no one trusts dbrx….

Again - very different type of catalog though!

well @spite.vc, I hope

Anything owned by the platforms is implicitly meant to perpetuate lock-in and their fat margins

A standalone, good catalog is the path toward data liberation ✊

are you the hero we need?

I would personally fund you going and building a standalone catalog (as long as you call it “Spite”)

Ideally yes but idk if there is money to be made there so I’m skeptical

Also to be clear I’m talking iceberg catalog - not “data catalog” as understood in MDS last few years

The catalog space needs to get sorted out. Snowflake is trying to control it with Polaris, but that’s because they want to stay in the write path themselves and make sure that their engine can always be more performant. Someone needs to step up with an alternative.

had no idea hightouch was this punk rock

fully revolting against DST, if you recognize it it’s your problem

You kid

nah he’s a big memory safety guy

george is already post duckdb, he wrote his own next-gen serverless hybrid query engine backed by a yet-unreleased high performance multi modal file format built for the ground-up for high performance AI apps

ok is this bsky thing actually happening this time?!?