My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…

'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

I wrote about the modern data stack growing up (dbt @ $100m, fivetran @ $300m) in our latest newsletter - streamkap.substack.com/p/the-modern...

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New Fivetran pricing is coming March 1. Has anyone done an analysis of your usage and found the impact?

Before this was official I ran into a few companies where they had separate MAR rates by connector (slightly different from the new stuff), and it was a nightmare.

BYOC streaming is so hot right now. Rumors swirling around a potential $1.5B acquisition of Redpanda by Snowflake.

Alex Dean is one of my favorite people and I always learn something new when he gives a talk. Here he is on sensory systems for AI agents. #DDT25

Smokin’ a bird

Can’t say I expected to get this text from my eighty something year old dad this morning

SF data folks - the 5th SF Low-Key Data meetup is coming up tomorrow evening - come out and join us -
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Weekend project made from salvaged redwood

Had a chat with a data guy today who had an interesting criticism of Fivetran's MAR pricing and it was not the one you would expect. Interested in people's takes on this, particularly those who are better informed/have talked to Fivetran about it.

#databs

With the MDS bundling and the data warehouse unbundling (Iceberg), are we just going to end up with the same number of tools?

#databs

Monte Carlo hosted a panel yesterday with enterprise data leaders from Okta, General Mills, and Jack in the Box. All of them agreed that data quality was very hard to get buy-in for pre-LLM and it's now front and center!

Many of our customers start with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Clickhouse as a destination but a common pattern is a desire to start using those events elsewhere, we're excited to announce we can now push events to your Kafka topics! #databs

Favorite metrics are looking good today

"Anecdotes are a lot more powerful than data. Data answers a question you already know to ask... you can pack a lot more context into individual anecdotes" Interesting perspective from Parker Conrad on a podcast recently.

P.s. will I be banned from #databs for cross-posting from LinkedIn? 😅

hello #databs!

Streamkap is a streaming ETL platform making it easy to get your data moving faster.

We did a webinar earlier this week talking a bit more about what were seeing in the wild as folks move from batch to streaming, or combine batch and streaming

www.linkedin.com/events/batch...

Hello world 👋. This thing seems to be taking off.