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nourion Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative

We’re considering adopting DBT or a similar tool for the orchestration of our data pipelines on Snowflake. But we also explored Snowflake Dynamic Tables, and they make it easy to build a complex DAG without having to describe it.

I’m curious if data warehouse features like materialized views or dynamic tables will end up making DBT or the like obsolete?

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/dynamic-tables-abou...

nourion Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

Using OpenAI Function Calls or asking for JSON in the prompt?

nourion Why Go and Not Rust? (2019)

Curious what people think about using Go for a (distributed) database? For example CockroachDB seems to be mostly written in Go, while YugabyteDB is C/C++. Would Go give an advantage to the CockroachDB project?