Big-Data Blab – Coders Co.

Welcome Snowflake

by GosiaBig-Data Blab, Coding, Rax 2015-01-072021-08-25Comments are Disabled

Snowflake Computing has recently emerged from stealth with a bold claim of having reinvented the data warehouse. Ease of use is their main motto and I dare to say they live up to this promise. Since one of Snowflake’s co-founders, Marcin Żukowski, is a good friend of mine, I’ve got a chance to play with …

Abstraction vs. Performance

by GosiaBig-Data Blab, Rax 2014-04-16Comments are Disabled

Programming is hard. There is a lot of complexity that needs to handled. To hide at least some of this complexity, people come up with abstractions. SQL is an example of an abstraction – it provides a way to process data without worrying about all sorts of details like: How to find the relevant data …

Read more “Abstraction vs. Performance”