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Community Comment: Part 21 - Premature optimization is root of all evil, with caveats

* Premature optimization is root of all evil, with caveats * This maxim often taken out of context * Functional correctness is first priority * Expected workloads impact architecture The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. CEO at ELT Platform Firm: NEVER focus on load times when you first stand

Community Comment: Part 20 - Shifting the debate from 10x engineers to 10x interactions is unwise

* Debate about the "10x" engineer continues * Shifting debate to 10x interactions unwise * Excessive interaction is often a symptom * Say "yes" to beneficial interaction only The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Senior Principal Engineer at Food Delivery Firm: Too many companies delusionally

Community Comment: Part 19 - Firms have more choices than just buy vs build

* Firms have more choices than vendors admit * The "buy vs build" choice is nuanced * Commercial & open source fall on spectrum * Blanket $ statements cannot be made The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. CEO at ELT platform firm: Do you think your data team

Community Comment: Part 18 - Lines of code (LOC) is not a good productivity measure

* Lines of code (LOC) not good productivity measure * Preparation rewards !> participation rewards * Finish time matters for running race * End product matters for software The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Product Owner at Consultancy: “A developer should be writing at least as much in code

Community Post: Part 1 - My proposal to DB-Engines for inclusion of Databricks was successful!

* My open letter to DB-Engines * Gartner's "DBMS market share ranks" post * Databricks left out of DB-Engines ranking * My proposal to DB-Engines was successful Background for a community post I wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erikgfesser_gartner-databricks-database-activity-6925028958199570432-t5bW/ Gfesser: Success! About a week ago, I submitted the

Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Enterprise Agile Strategist at Cloud Content Management Firm: Q: How do I get accurate estimates?

Community Comment: Part 16

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6883455289505521664?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6883455289505521664%2C6883466108553244672%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6883455289505521664%2C6883474864909377536%29 Founder of Taproot Foundation and Imperative: Need your advice, please.

Community Comment: Part 15

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6884136604764565505?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6884136604764565505%2C6884184734960775169%29 Director at Executive Search Firm: Do not hire an architect if you want them to be sat writing code all

Community Comment: Part 14

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871126959674400769?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6871126959674400769%2C6873206176721506304%29 Data Warehouse Architect & Developer at Healthcare Data Consultancy: I keep seeing this again and again: databases like Snowflake, Redshift,

Community Comment: Part 13

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6887723730819158016?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6887723730819158016%2C6889881950715199488%29 Programming Jokes / IT Humor & Memes Group: python or java ?? Gfesser: Just because both Java and Python are general purpose