Craig

It takes 10 times as much energy to kill good ideas as it does to create them.

We've got food duty at the first kids travel tournament of the year, was thinking about trying to pull off good quality pour over coffee. Anyone have good mechanisms when unclear a good power source for kettle exists?

Production ready Postgres. That's it.

The details matter. In this case, completely revamping our newsletter signup screen ahead of an upcoming conference. I mean why wouldn't you execute SQL to sign up for a database newsletter?

New release of pg_parquet including: * Amazon S3 * Azure Blob Storage * Google Cloud Storage * http(s) stores * local files Still the easiest way to simplify some of your ETL allowing Postgres and parquet to play well together. www.crunchydata.com/blog/announc...

Iceberg has gone from being the thing Netflix (and then Apple) built for their own enormous data lakes to a collaborative open standard where even the competition is learning to co-operate and align: I dug into the Iceberg summit and asked @craigkerstiens.com and others why it's so useful

Happy revenge of the sith day to all who celebrate.

Updating my nulls today with: \pset null 🤖 Can't decide if it's for R2-D2, C-3PO, or BB-8, but closest I can get for May the 4th. May keep it for a few days...

A few weeks in, but still every time I demo this it feels absolutely magical. Finally convergence of transactional and analytical data. www.crunchydata.com/blog/logical...

Now live on the Crunchy Bridge dashboard the ability to seamlessly sync data between your operational database over to your data warehouse for analytics - docs.crunchybridge.com/changelog#da...

My guess would be people are just using Iceberg connectors, see things seem to work, and compaction is an after-thought. That's why IMO good Iceberg support is not a connector feature but an engine feature. Like what Crunchy is doing with their DWH, or, for Kafka, Confluent with Tableflow.

A shocking take-away for me from a few weeks ago at Iceberg Summit and similarly at Data Council today is for all those using Iceberg yet so few doing compaction on their data lake files. To me seemed a requirement for any production Iceberg usage, otherwise you wake up shocked in a few months.

Yesterday met someone at Data Council that was very familiar with @crunchydata.com team and described us as basically being team Avengers for Postgres/databases. That's a new one, but will totally take it.

Sitting in Ryan Blue’s talk at Data Council and about to leave from Q&A to head to office hours and question comes up about CDC from databases to Iceberg… @marcoslot.com makes a hard U-turn to tune in

@andypavlo.bsky.social on HN sums it up well OLAP vs. OLTP isn't right vs. wrong, they're designed for different things. Have a version of this on a slide when explaining Crunchy Data Warehouse and how it's for very different purposes than stock Postgres.

And there it is: Native logical replication from any Postgres server to Iceberg managed by Crunchy Data Warehouse. Speed up Postgres analytical queries 100x with 2 commands.

Today we're announcing the availability of logical replication from Postgres to Iceberg with Crunchy Data Warehouse. Now you can seamlessly move data and stream changes from your operational database into an analytical system. www.crunchydata.com/blog/logical...

If you're using Postgres for your app data you can stop stitching together a myriad of ETL tools and analytics data stores and use one database for everything. This is both awesome and a lot of fun to use.

The way this converges operational and analytical systems is nothing short of magical. bsky.app/profile/crun...

🐘 meets 🧊 End to end, under 2 minutes. - Two commands to replicate data from Postgres -> Iceberg - Synced over 10m rows under a minute - Data is continually processed and updated in Iceberg - count(*) in Postgres over 300ms down to under 20ms

Now playing: Eye of the tiger

We now expose the physical zone directly to users on Crunchy Bridge. Most think they know what an availability zone is, but did you know by default AWS randomizes the names between accounts. You have to get to the physical zone id to colocate things - docs.crunchybridge.com/changelog#fe...

I've learned over the years when @louisemeta.bsky.social tells me she has an idea for a blog post I don't hesitate, just simply ask when can I see it because I know it's going to be awesome. This is no exception

This was a lot of fun and covered a ton in 45 minutes. If you watch and have questions happy to setup time to dig in deeper with anyone interested.

What's this? Flexible/variable long term backup retention 👀

Another day another several demos of Crunchy Data Warehouse. The ah-ha moments and lightbulbs that go off for people when I demo this remind me of the early demos of Heroku.

Great talk from @marcoslot.com at recent Iceberg meetup on building a Postgres Data Warehouse with Iceberg! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnq...