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Verticalization of the Data Warehouse
Will Verticalization be a new growth experiment for the leading data warehouse platforms?
SQL Maxis: How to get a character from a codepoint in Spark SQL
How we coerced Spark SQL into returning a proper character from a codepoint.
Everyone wants to be a Data Cloud
The pace of “Data Cloud” launches is rising as emerging technologies both unlock new opportunities and threaten category leaders.
Could Open Table Formats End the Reign of Snowflake and Databricks?
DuckLake asks a dangerous question: if your table catalog can just be a database, how much of Snowflake do you really need?
New: Send customers Delta Lake formatted data
Starting today, Prequel customers can export Delta Lake formatted data to their customers’ object storage containers, allowing them to query exported data much faster than before.
Expert Advice: Build or Buy for data export?
We asked Kevin Suer, Director of Product at Zuora, what advice he would give to anyone evaluating whether to build or buy a data export solution.
New: Share vector and geography data with your customers
Any company that uses APIs or ETL tools to share vector or geographic data with customers can now use our Data Export Platform to drastically increase transfer throughput.
How fast is Iceberg on Snowflake?
We tested the performance of Iceberg tables, external tables, and native tables on Snowflake.
How to build data export products using MongoDB Atlas
In recent years, leading software companies have launched data sharing products that give customers direct access to the data they need.
Go Generics: Writing an Immutable Slice in Go
How to look out for “future you” when order matters.
Major Feature Release: Schema Evolution
How and why we built schema evolution into the Prequel platform
Building cross-cloud identity federation in Go for secure data sharing
How we built our improved cross-cloud data sharing authentication (with code examples).
Prequel raises $5.2M in Seed funding
Announcing our Seed round.
Changelog 8/28/2023: Role-based auth and new advanced features
Prequel now supports role-based authentication (or "identity federation") for AWS or GCP destinations, including Redshift, Athena, S3, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage.
SQL Maxis: Constructing JSON objects in Athena using SQL
How we coerced Athena into constructing and exporting tables as rows of JSON objects
Changelog 5/9/2023: Data import, webhooks, schema-tenanting
Prequel now supports connecting to external (customer) data sources to import data — for many SaaS products, this is a critical capability.
SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
Changelog 2/10/2023: Staging environments, multiple sources, & multiple products
We're always adding new destinations, and this release includes a number of new object storage and database additions.
How to Share Data with Snowflake Data Sharing (with examples)
A short guide to setting up Snowflake Data Sharing.
Database Drivers: Naughty or Nice?
A list of the top driver bugs and misbehaviors we encountered this year.
Building Data Products: The Three Questions You Should Ask When Spec’ing Out A Data Product
The three questions you really should ask yourself before you start building a new data product.
Salesforce & Snowflake: B2B SaaS loves the Data Warehouse
Last month, Salesforce announced a native integration with Snowflake. Why? And what does this mean for the rest of B2B SaaS?
Introducing Prequel: Shifting The ETL Paradigm
Announcing our launch.
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