Finish Slime #27

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Kestra Raises $3 Million to Simplify and Unify Orchestration for All Engineers

Congrats to the Kestra team! Kestra is an interesting new open-source data orchestrator, and it just got some gunpowder to take it to the next level.

5 minute hacks to optimise data warehouse cost and speed(Snowflake, Bigquery, Postgres etc.)

Wouldn’t we all want some simple hacks to get more speed for less out of our database? Here you go!

Factory Patterns in Python

Yes, every data person should know how to program Python, and yes, everyone should know a few advanced patterns like the factory pattern.

Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends

You don’t need extensive tools for data flows; there are many simple ones everyone should know.

Answering "Why did the KPI change?" using decomposition

This is the question every analyst hates and tumbles over if not dealt with with a coherent framework, so tell me, why did the KPI change?

Data Pipeline Architecture Examples And Diagrams From Real Teams

We’re fans of examples. This article contains a dozen of data architectures in action.

AB Testing 101

We all need to do AB tests; this is the definitive guide for any data person.