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craigkerstiens
32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.
You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com
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A pretty big +1 to this. My team (at Crunchy Data building Crunchy Bridge[1]) and similar teams at prior Citus Data and Heroku did a lot of Ruby and a lot of state machines. In all cases it was actual…
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Big fan of some of Barbara Minto's stuff. There is a great talk on executive communication and applying the Minto method from Michael Dearing in the Heavybit library - https://www.heav…
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You can always provision a Crunchy Bridge DB and connect to it, we've got a ton of customers using Vercel and connecting their app to us. With built-in connection pooling it tends to work quite w…
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As a note. There was a popular Rails book at the time that was being released, I believe it was Michael Hartl's, but it may have been another one back then. The opening of the book was "open…
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We've had a number of folks migrate over to Crunchy Bridge [1] from Heroku, the only main feature we're missing at this point is dataclips which is coming. We can also help with pretty much …
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Yeah, not sure how much I can say, but this is definitely a repainting of reality. Actions at least the vision of what it would/could be was before acquisition.
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That Salesforce created it was wrong. That Heroku was already that way, yes also re-painting history. Cedar and buildpacks were conceived before the acquisition but launched after. The teams were allo…
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This is a bad take without much internal context. Heroku is not thriving as it stands today. It takes a lot just to run Heroku and the engineers still around care deeply around it. I'm excited fo…
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As someone that put a good portion of their working career into helping create Heroku alongside many others, several who contributed way more and had a larger impact, the notion that it failed is prob…