why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cloud data warehouses enabled modern multi-tool data architectures
“Architectures like this really have only become possible with the rise of folks like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, and this idea that as a data practitioner, I can have infinite compute at the kind of tips of my fingers without having to go outsid…”
Insight
Bypassing Git simplifies source control for non-software data teams
“The fact that I can take my skill set and have a source controlled pipeline without actually having to learn Git makes all the downstream people on my team's lives so much easier because they know exactly what I did and what I changed and they still get that r…”
Insight
Seeing manipulated data directly increases data engineer productivity
“I just think that as a data engineer, if you have to actually go ahead and maintain a pipeline, being able to see the actual data manipulated really increases your productivity.”
Opinion
Data scientists do the 'sexiest work' on data teams
“And lastly, you know, your data scientists who, in my opinion, are kind of doing the sexiest work when making business predictions based off of data, their needs are also different.”
Assertion Supported
Apache Airflow was created in 2014 at Airbnb
“Airflow was founded in 2014 at Airbnb, and it's an absolutely viral open source project.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Astronomer has grown to roughly 350 remote-first employees
“I think we're around 350 people now, give or take. We have folks in New York, London, San Francisco, India, and kind of all over remote first.”