Need a gentle introduction to Databricks Asset Bundles, what they are, how to use them, why to use them? Look no further you hobbit.

Well, we all knew that open source wasn’t a real thing anymore. This just confirms it. I don’t use DBT much, I think it’s for whimps and script kiddies. Anywho, I love watching Linkedin and Reddit explode with anger at Fivetran buying DBT. Everyone things dbt core is done. Who cares. Babies.

Things have changed a lot in the last year related to LLMs and AI; on the one hand, it seems the AI skeptics for coding are increasingly confined to the corners of the internet. Everyone is dancing around in the middle, not sure of where everything should fall. Clearly, if we don’t use AI at all, we will become coding dinosaurs. But a sea of junior devs relying too much on Cursor has created a knowledge crisis, and demand for Senior+ devs has skyrocketed.

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You know, I did fight it for a long time, and I’m still fighting it. Look, no one wants to become a Terraform engineer; that is pain and suffering. But, we all understand the benefits of IAC (infrastructure as code), and SHOULD be using it in our daily tech lives, or pushing towards it.

But there is a thin red line, and it gets crossed a lot.

Oh, you want a new Workspace in Databricks? Terraform. Do you need a new RDS instance in AWS? Terraform. Want to give some group permissions to X, Y, Z? Terraform.

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