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Tower
Company blog · tower.dev/blog · on HN as bradhedataprogramming
Tower is the company blog at tower.dev, writing about data and programming. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Airflow is not your data platform”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Data flow orchestrator for pipelines and agents with optional data management in Iceberg-based lakehouses
Most-linked posts?
- Airflow is not your data platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
- Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Crazy how big the data ecosystem has grown. Congrats to the Neon team on a good outcome, but good luck integrating into DBX culture and surviving. I'm seeing a lot of DBX hate in this thread overall. I think it's warranted. At Tower[0], we're trying to provide a decent open solution. It stars with owning your own data, and Iceberg helps you break free. [0] - https://tower.dev
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on “Databricks acquires Neon”Submitted Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python as a story · 71 points
HN discussionDefinitely agree, their M&A strategy is setup to strangle whoever they buy and they don't even know it. They're struggling in the face of Iceberg, DuckDB and the other tectonic shifts happening in the open source world. They are trying to innovate through acquisition, but can't quite make it because their culture kills the companies they buy. I'm biased, I'm a big-data-tech refugee (ex-Snowflake) and am working on h…
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on “Databricks acquires Neon”Submitted Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe did an evaluation of various REST catalog options and went with Open Catalog from Snowflake (a Polaris-based managed service that works independently from their data warehousing solution). Lakekeeper is nice - it's one of the few catalogs with FGAC and table maintenance. https://tower.dev/blog/picking-snowflake-open-catalog-as-a-m...
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on “Apache Iceberg”Submitted Pythonic Orchestration of Apps in Tower as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCool, would be happy to talk a bit more about it. Want to shoot me an email (in bio) or if you sign up for our waitlist on https://tower.dev I can reach out in the AM (we’re in Germany)!
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on “Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python”Submitted Make Every Agent a Data Agent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When ETL Turns into a Land Grab as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deploy DltHub, SQLMesh, DBT Core, or Any Python Project to Tower as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven takeaways from seven Iceberg Summit user talks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airflow is not your data platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airflow is not your data platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Develop with DeepSeek R1 on Apple GPUs, Deploy with Serverless Inference as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY infrastructure is what's causing you to fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big data traps that catch small data teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Headaches of LLM Inference for App Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deploy DltHub, SQLMesh, DBT Core, or Any Python Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI auto-coders will replace data engineers. Or will they? as a story · 1 points
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