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IT solution architect and seasoned data professional, tech and open source enthusiast from Vilnius, Lithuania 🇱🇹 Interested in personal privacy and security, information systems, gaming, internet of things, cars.
🇱🇹 IT sprendimų architektas ir technologijų, kompiuterinių žaidimų, atvirojo kodo programinės įrangos bei automobilių entuziastas. Labai mėgstu bandyti išmaniuosius įrenginius ir komunikuoti besidomintiems kaip privačiai, etiškai ir saugiai naudoti technologijas kasdieniniams iššūkiams spręsti.
#data #databases #opensource #foss #privacy #gaming #retro #fedi22 #blogger #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoBots #NoArchive #NoAI #NoScrape #NoBridge #FediAdmin #DefederateMeta #lietuviškai
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Attended an event Brewing Data with Snowflake yesterday in Vilnius 
Some of they key insights:
- Medallion Architecture (good or bad) is widespread.
- Snowflake and Databricks are clear competitors, targeting similar landscape.
- Open formats are trending: file format, table format, catalog, etc. - the more of them are open source, the better.
- Time travel feature is important, many users already used it for disaster recovery.
- Clear distinction of Storage from Compute (generic cloud approach).
Full text of one of the slides presented:
Strategic Architecture Outlook
- Agility & Future-Proofing - Open, portable data means you can adopt new technologies or switch platforms with minimal friction. No single vendor can hold your data hostage, so you can evolve vour architecture as needed.
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid - An open data layer can span clouds and on-prem seamlessly. You avoid cloud vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed services on different clouds using the same data. This flexibility is key for resilience and optimization.
- Accelerating Innovation - When any team can access data with the tools of their choice, experimentation flourishes. Open data fosters Al/ML and cross-domain analytics since data isn't locked in silos - more innovation and insights from the same data.
- Vendor Leverage - Strategically, using open standards increases your leverage in vendor negotiations. You car opt in or out of services more freely, pushing vendors to provide value (since you're not irreversibly locked to them).
#data #datalake #datalakehouse #medallion #architecture #snowflake #vilnius #lithuania #bigdata #event #meetup
Back in 1995 I had no chance owning Sega Saturn 
Yet Sega Saturn is awesome console with CD tray (for game discs) and cartridge slot (mainly used to extend memory). Joystics still feels top: inheriting shape and layout from Mega Drive 
Can you spot 10 differences in this photo? 
#sega #megadrive #saturn #retrogaming #retro #console #gaming
Attention Python developers who love Bash! 
Open source contribution: super happy to have my shell prompt customization theme merged into Bash-it 
Now everyone can change their 
gytis@gytis-laptop:~/python_venv/general39$
To something like this, displaying 
┌──[2024-11-06 17:59:18] 🐧 gytis 💻 gytis-laptop 🐍 3.9.20 on [general39] 📂 general39
└>
And of course work with 
┌──[2024-11-06 18:02:47] 🐧 gytis 💻 gytis-laptop 📂 bash-it on 🌵 theme-inretio ✓
└>
If you are not using any Bash prompt customization yet, install Bash-it now and just switch to inretio theme by adding following to your profile config:
export BASH_IT_THEME='inretio'
Do you use any terminal prompt customizations already? 
Oh hey, CAA records really work
Switched one site from paid TLS certificate to LetsEncrypt and forgot to update DNS record. As expected, LetsEncrypt looks at and refuses to issue a certificate if CAA lists other issuer. Nice
My first WiFi based OBD-2 car diagnostic tool - WiCAN PRO. It is based on ESP32-S3 platform and runs open source firmware.
As usual, testing on 
Kids, learn to code 
With various US-related and ethical questions regarding Microsoft, I am considering whether moving from XBOX world to PlayStation would make sense 
Sony Interactive Entertainment serves Europe from subsidiary in the UK and Sony Group itself is Japanese. They have big presence in the US too, though.
Is it fair to say Sony is more ethical choice in terms of Microsoft's huge involvement in defence industry?
Also, is there a way to use 
Fellow gamers, any advice?
So I asked one proprietary AI slop factory to generate me a program that would do REST API call
The bot complained and didn't generate anything in PL/I, offered wrappers of curl in Cobol and C, then provided somewehat workable code in Go.
It's definitely not AI to take tech jobs. Gartner, please give us the next big innovation 
Attended an event Brewing Data with Snowflake yesterday in Vilnius
Some of they key insights:
- Medallion Architecture (good or bad) is widespread.
- Snowflake and Databricks are clear competitors, targeting similar landscape.
- Open formats are trending: file format, table format, catalog, etc. - the more of them are open source, the better.
- Time travel feature is important, many users already used it for disaster recovery.
- Clear distinction of Storage from Compute (generic cloud approach).
Full text of one of the slides presented:
Strategic Architecture Outlook
- Agility & Future-Proofing - Open, portable data means you can adopt new technologies or switch platforms with minimal friction. No single vendor can hold your data hostage, so you can evolve vour architecture as needed.
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid - An open data layer can span clouds and on-prem seamlessly. You avoid cloud vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed services on different clouds using the same data. This flexibility is key for resilience and optimization.
- Accelerating Innovation - When any team can access data with the tools of their choice, experimentation flourishes. Open data fosters Al/ML and cross-domain analytics since data isn't locked in silos - more innovation and insights from the same data.
- Vendor Leverage - Strategically, using open standards increases your leverage in vendor negotiations. You car opt in or out of services more freely, pushing vendors to provide value (since you're not irreversibly locked to them).
#data #datalake #datalakehouse #medallion #architecture #snowflake #vilnius #lithuania #bigdata #event #meetup
Weekends be like this 
Piratavimas - masinis reiškinys 🏴☠️ Menotyrininkas ir laidų vedėjas Saulius Pilinkus su LRT dalinasi prisiminimais apie šviesaus atminimo žurnalistą, rašytoją Algimantą Čekuolį:
Jam įsiminė, kad per A. Čekuolį buvo galima gauti dalykų, kurių mūsų šalyje tuo metu nebuvo – knygų, muzikos įrašų, netgi filmų.
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A. Čekuolis filmą gavo tiesiog nufilmuodamas televizoriaus ekraną. Vėliau jo dėka šis filmas paplito po Lietuvą“, – prisiminė pašnekovas.
Taip Lietuvoje atsirado pirmieji filmų torrentai - screeneriai 
All developers I've met in my career in IT, who insisted code is self-documenting were exceptionally bad in documenting anything 
While their code usually ran just fine, they could hardly ever explain how it worked or why it was structured that way to someone else, especially junior developers.
Comments and annotations exists for a reason.
Watch close: in the upcoming months we'll see how many of international compnies really meant their diversity and inclusion policies 
Danish LEGO has already toned down their sustainability report, following Trump's denounced diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the US.