To be fair, in many wealthier economies, people are having less and less kids. South Korea has been unable to revert this trend despite aggressive incentives.
Obesity is certainly a factor holding back certain communities here in the USA. But I agree it's a tangential issue.
On the issue of whether or not "the middle class is collapsing," I hear lots of arguments (as usual very polarized) on both sides of that debate. Does anybody have strong empirical studies to share (ideally non-partisan!) on how this statement holds up? I have googled and probably found the obvious stuff but I would love to read up more on this.
In my old "brick and mortar" days I would see a relaxing during good times, with more remote people being hired, more WFH leniency. It's when times got hard that the blood would flow away from the extremities (as I would think of it) and people further from HQ would be at risk.
I found this interesting because, while I appreciate the arguments being made, I can't say I have explicitly seen this play out IRL. But maybe I have limited information. Anybody else seeing this happen?
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) facilitate better configuration, integration, and management of data workflows. They enable data professionals to articulate pipeline logic more intuitively without delving into low-level coding intricacies.
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We ran the numbers for Prefect and several other repos in our space and they came out clean. As we note in the article, while some repos game the system, from what we can tell the number of abusers is actually fairly small.
For sure, between these competing products you will see one respond to a popular feature by mimicking it. But the Dagster framework is fundamentally different from Airflow so over time I don't see it being a feature-vs-feature decision but more of a declarative/reconciliation vs. imperative/task-centric split.