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Tristan Handy
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Tristan Handy writes The Analytics Engineering Roundup, a personal blog at roundup.getdbt.com about data and programming. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Saying true things is hard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
The internet's most useful articles on analytics engineering and its adjacent ecosystem. Curated with ❤️ by Tristan Handy. Click to read The Analytics Engineering Roundup, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Saying true things is hard2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-02
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I follow the Analytics Engineering Roundup weekly email. It's published by dbt Labs but isn't overtly promotional. https://roundup.getdbt.com/
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on “Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale”Submitted Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea? as a story · 129 points
HN discussionFYI: A recent "Data Analysis Podcast" interviews the Arrows founder Wes McKinney on this topic. https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep-37-what-does-apache-arrow-un...
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on “Demystifying Apache Arrow”Submitted How does column encoding work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm as big a SQL stan as the next person and I'm also very skeptical anytime anyone says that SQL needs to be replaced. At the same time, it's challenging that SQL cannot be iteratively improved and experimented upon. IMHO, PRQL is a reasonable approach to extending SQL without replacing SQL. But what I'd love to see is projects like Google's zeta-sql [1] and Substrait [2] get more traction. It would provide a more…
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on “Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"”Submitted Saying true things is hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi there! Author here. What I was referring to was MapReduce/BigTable. While I think BigQuery always had SQL support, some customers in the early 2010s had the perception that Google was more interested in building a new language for queries rather than support something for SQL. Mike Stonebraker talked a little bit about this in the context of MapReduce on the dbt podcast recently: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep38…
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on “Usage-based pricing isn't always best”Submitted Identity and Entity Analytics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a (small) long running agent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A picture worth 1000 lines of code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recovering from the Party as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying true things is hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL's TypeScript moment will help agents just as much as it'll help humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Will Disrupt BI as We Know It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted For the Love of the Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying true things is hard as a story · 1 points
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