🤯 Database money is wild:
Larry Ellison, at 80, just:
• Made $15B in ONE DAY
• Bought Paramount for $6B
• Dropped $277M on a resort
• Spent $12M on college football

All funded by database tech 🏦

Never underestimate enterprise software 💰

#TechEntrepreneur

🔮 The future of databases isn't just about query performance anymore
2024 showed us the next battleground:

• AI/LLM integration
• Developer experience
• Ecosystem compatibility
• Quality-of-life features

The winners will nail the full stack experience 🎯

#DatabaseDesign #AI

📊 The open-source database paradox:
• Build great open-source DB
• Gain popularity
• Cloud giants offer it as a service
• They make more $ than you

This is why we're seeing more companies shift to "source-available" licenses

The golden era of OSS DBs might be ending 🤔
#StartupLife

💡 2024 Tech Insight: DuckDB is becoming the Swiss Army knife of data analytics
4 different Postgres extensions launched this year to integrate DuckDB capabilities 🚀

Why? Most OLAP queries only scan ~100MB of data, making DuckDB perfect for most use cases

#DatabaseDesign #Engineering

🔥 The Databricks vs Snowflake war has gotten spicy!

DB: drops $10M DBRX LLM with 132B params
Snowflake: "Hold my beer" releases 480B param model for $2M

The database wars have evolved from query performance to AI supremacy

Wild times in #DataEngineering! Thoughts? 🤔