Gradient Ascent | Josef Sieber

Apache Iceberg is overhyped

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Josef Sieber

Apache iceberg does not solve the root of the problem. It slightly decouples a tightly coupled system (proprietary db implementations) but moves the coupling to a different layer, the metadata management. The problem that needs to be addressed is lock-in of the data stack. Sure, the data format itself is …

IaC Haiku

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Josef Sieber

Infrastructure doubt? Silence Ambiguity. Please use IaC!

Good Bad Performance

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Josef Sieber

In my tinkering outside of work, I've embarked (with a previous colleague/friend) on developing an automated ML based stock trading system that handles buying, selling, and retraining, while understanding that this is the least unique project to embark on, as everyone wants to make money and this is the stereotypical …