Jeremiah Lowin

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2020 by Jeremiah Lowin · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Lowin: Negative engineering is defensive work ensuring code actually runs
“And so we've named this problem, the negative engineering problem, because it's not about what you're trying to achieve. It's about all the defensive work you have to do to make sure that it actually took place, in fact, took place.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 28:50 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 positive
Insight
Lowin: Modern tools let analysts query data warehouses directly over static CSVs
“If we think back to BI tools, say five, certainly 10 years ago, you would sort of beg for a CSV and God help you if the data, if the insight you weren't, the insight you were looking for was not in that CSV, you were sort of screwed. But now thanks to, you kno…”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 4:06 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Jeremiah Lowin: Every data system eventually requires defining a schema
“You're going to have a schema. It's just a question of whether you define it upfront or you figure it out later.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 13:21 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Disclosure
Lowin: Prefect acts as insurance, delivering value when data pipelines break
“That's why we frequently describe our product as an insurance product is because we deliver value mainly when things go wrong. And this will sound crazy maybe to say, but if everything goes the way one of our users expected it to go, they really don't Need our…”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 28:21 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 neutral
What-if
Lowin would have built Prefect within Apache Airflow if possible
“And if I were able to do the things that Prefect does in airflow, I would have.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 29:43 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Lowin: Saving time during outages offers higher leverage than routine orchestration
“If you imagine saving someone one hour orchestrating something, just getting that code to run versus saving a team one hour in a production crisis incident, the leverage of that hour, it's the same hour, but the leverage, the impact, the emotional burden, the …”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 32:20 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 negative
Opinion
Lowin: Managed hosting for open-source tools is a bad business model
“I think that that is a bad business model. And I sort of, I'm on the record of that. And for a very simple reason, which is that A company that is solving a problem needs to find the correct way to express its knowledge and its solution to that problem.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 41:52 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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