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The Sisyphean struggle and the new era of data infrastructure
I just started re-reading Start With Why by Simon Sinek, which is a fantastic book on leadership and business strategy. The book’s core argument is that great companies don’t focus on what they do or offer, or how they do it. Instead, they focus on their WHY, their story, and what they stand for
Tomorrow, another group of talented engineers may come out of stealth, after a year of hard work, showing off their Postgres-compatible serverless database built on Arrow, DataFusion et al with S3 as its storage layer. Chris uses the example of HTAP, the still arguably unachieved dream of seamlessly combining the capabilities of OLTP and OLAP into a single database system. But there is nothing stopping another copycat, or even the larger platforms, from adding that feature or angle to their own suite and extinguishing the unique value of the newcomer (or acquiring them).
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