Founder, Hollyburn Analytics | building agentic software

North Vancouver, BC
Joined March 2008
Great project, couldn't resist contributing. Opened a PR to add an MCP server so AI assistants can query the tracker data directly 🍁 github.com/BuildCanada/Outco…
Transparent governance builds better government. As we approach the one-year anniversary of the 45th Parliament of Canada, we're launching our Outcomes Tracker. View the status of 603 commitments made by the federal government at a glance at buildcanada.com/tracker 📊
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Every year I give a talk to the company, and every year I dread putting it together. This year, I got some help from my AI terrarium. New unlock 😄
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I recently gave a talk @DataCouncilAI about how @MaterializeInc opens real-time analytics to every data team. Use it like any other cloud data warehouse. Connect tools like @segment @fivetran @HightouchData and your @getdbt models update instantly! youtube.com/watch?v=pLb5sFZ7…
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This brings us so much joy. Our speakers making new friends 😉 at the #DataCouncil speaker dinner @_abhisivasailam @jtalms @matthelm @izeigerman
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"They said I couldn't empower an analytics engineering team to take a rules-based fraud detection approach down from 30 min batch to 3 seconds streaming, all with SQL and dbt, and I took that personally"
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Introducing Realtime: continuous, automated analysis of public data realtime.org/about
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A large part of my role @MaterializeInc is building a real-time data warehouse *without* the typical complexities of streaming. I'm excited to share how easy it is at #datacouncil24 with a talk titled "Real-Time Analytics for Small Data Teams". datacouncil.ai/talks24/real-…
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At least once a year @craigmod and I invite remarkable people to walk a week with us. It's always one of the best weeks of the year. We just wrote up a small free booklet that tells you everything we know on how to do your own "walk and talk." kk.org/thetechnium/files/202…
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Matt Helm retweeted
We're hiring a Visual Designer at @MaterializeInc to partner with me and our marketing team to do some exciting work in the new year. If you're a designer who thinks databases and developer tools are cool and want to work on them, hit my line 🚀
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The Swift Charts 📊 team at Apple is hiring interns for 2024! Apply if you are interested in helping create APIs for accessible, informative and delightful data visualizations. Learn more and follow the instructions at gist.github.com/rxwei/3568b7…
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"S3 economics" was one of the founding principles of @MaterializeInc: xitter.cf/narayanarjun/status/11… We don't talk about it much—it's an implementation detail!—but it's part of what makes Materialize fundamentally viable. Cool to see how sharply the whole industry has turned in this direction.
S3 is increasingly becoming the default storage layer for cloud infrastructure. I wrote notes on this trend, its benefits, its challenges, its early adopters, and the opportunity it presents for new startups to disrupt large infrastructure categories medium.com/innovationendeavo…
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Webhook Sources are fantastic 👏 A few weeks ago I connected in webhooks from Segment and within an hour had built a real-time dashboard for our company onsite. The experience was as easy as a cloud data warehouse, but with the data updating instantly 🏎️
Webhook Sources are live in Materialize! This makes it easy to pipe in events from a long tail of SaaS platforms, services, and tools. @park_my__car writes about them here: hubs.la/Q023-PCx0
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Building with Materialize is so much faster, easier, and more accurate than with existing streaming systems. Rather than needing Kafka, Flink, and Druid, I was able to just use Materialize. A project like this was only possible thanks to the approachability of Materialize.
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Right now is the most interesting time in tech, when new value is created and @sandwich gets to do our favorite kind of work. So here’s an idea we had, to find the companies we want to invest in with great video: the Breadwinner Fellowship. Apply now. sandwich.co/breadwinner
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A well written post on dbt adding tools to break down monolithic warehouses, these are very real problems. I look forward to trying dbt’s new Contracts and Versions!
Newest post: The next big step forwards for analytics engineering. Would love to hear your thoughts. getdbt.com/blog/analytics-en…
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