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Modern Data Stack in a box (all Open Source)

This week I participated in a hackathon for fun with a couple of friends. There were 3 rules for each of us:

RIP to Pro Wrestling's best bad guy

As a young kid (maybe 8 or 9) in the 1980's I very much loved to watch the WWF every Saturday morning on channel 5 in NJ. The Iron Sheik...

The 4 Analytics Questions of Subscription Ecommerce

I have spent over 20 years building my own subscription based service (SportsCollectors.Net) and working for companies with subscription offerings (Dell, Jupiterimages, Weight Watchers, Rent the Runway, ElysiumHelath). While the business...

Optimizing spend in Snowflake

Since about 2016, I have introduced Snowflake at two of my day jobs (Rent the Runway and Luma Financial Technologies) and have witnessed the platform's considerable evolution.  As with any...

Dagster with Python, Singer, and Meltano

I have been a fan of Dagster for data orchestration for a little while and wanted to share some of the basics. There are a lot of cool things I...

My Snowflake Set up with Terraform

I have been working with Snowflake since 2016 when I proposed and chose to bring it into Rent the Runway to replace our very painful on premise Vertica implementation (yes...