Notes from 21/9–28/9
Development
Build a fully production ready machine learning app with Python Django, React, and Docker
Something to learn and do
Fundamentals of Data Architecture to Help Data Scientists Understand Architectural Diagrams Better
When we eventually push out a larger data collection move
Life Optimisation
Learn to write fast
Product
The Psychology behind TikTok feed psychology
a D? wow yeah i suppose it is an extremely draining app to use
Snowflake, Before It Was Obvious
Those of us in the early Snowflake supporter camp always believed that the company could carve out a big chunk of the enterprise data warehousing market. And we thought that the best way to penetrate would be to make it easy for customers to try the Snowflake service. This is why so much of the development effort was devoted to making Snowflake super-easy to adopt and effortless to use — in stark contrast to the brain-exploding experience customers had come to expect from legacy data warehousing projects.
The company saw this happening and invested heavily in customer acquisition to fuel its “land” sales motion, a decision which ironically landed it in a tough spot. Metrics-oriented investors balked at Snowflake’s sales spending relative to new ARR acquired, and the 2016 financing had to be backstopped by the insiders. That was a mere four years ago, folks. The investors you see today tweeting Snowflake S-1 teardowns and buzzy factoids are not shareholders in the company and actually passed on that 2016 financing.
Today one of the most celebrated dimensions of the Snowflake business model is its superlative NRR (Net Revenue Retention) on quite substantial six-figure-plus ACV’s. As is the case with great consumption-based technology businesses, this property is baked into the product itself. It is the essence of Snowflake, and likely a hallmark of other great cloud-data businesses. I spend a lot of time with new startups in this ecosystem, and the potential for a supernatural Snowflake-like NRR is one of the key things I look for.
Tools
Visual Studio Code Course — How to Increase Your Productivity in VS Code
Will need to set up VSCode on my mac soon
bitbar display on mac bar
i thought it as the touch bar… but okay seems interesting?
