jason on X: "true story: "Hey Jason, we just on-boarded a new dataset and we need that dataset to be included in the table you made six years ago." What? I thought I was just helping crystal from the merch team? john left the company 2 years ago Wow, no one told you that this is now…" / X

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Premium+ Communities Verified Orgs Profile More Post Eden Chan @onlychans1 Post See new posts Conversation jason @jxnlco · 1h This is my advice for every young data engineer: Never make a passive offer to build a new adhoc table for anyone. You're gonna think you're gonna help one person. But six years down the road, you're going to realize that this table is being consumed in prod, And you're going to… Show more Quote john kutay @JohnKutay · 2h Now "decentralize our data with self-service analytics" twitter.com/matsonj/status… 3 18 5.4K jason @jxnlco true story: "Hey Jason, we just on-boarded a new dataset and we need that dataset to be included in the table you made six years ago." What? I thought I was just helping crystal from the merch team? john left the company 2 years ago Wow, no one told you that this is now powering every color swatch

true story: "Hey Jason, we just on-boarded a new dataset and we need that dataset to be included in the table you made six years ago." What? I thought I was just helping crystal from the merch team? john left the company 2 years ago Wow, no one told you that this is now powering every color swatch image on every product on website. What do you mean? If you don't maintain this, we won't have any color swatches to show for every single product we have on our website that we need to sell clothing on. Can I talk to my manager? Yeah, but you power every fucking color swatch on the website.…

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