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I like this. Using Twilio and other similar tools to send texts has become too hard lately - especially given all the verifications you need to go through.

Thanks for sharing!

Hi, Felipe at Snowflake here.

Here is the latest from Snowflake on this issue: https://community.snowflake.com/s/question/0D5VI00000Emyl00A...

We'll keep updating that URL with any further news.

You think we are disagreeing, meanwhile I just love how much I've learned (and confirmed) thanks to your replies. Thanks for sharing!

This is awesome, thanks for all the background info. Now let me give you an example of App Engine deprecating stuff:

- In 2012 App Engine deprecated the "Conversion API".

- They notified this deprecation in August 2012, and they told users it would stop working only 3 months afterwards.

- You were affected by this deprecation.

- You created an alternative to it, that worked on Heroku.

Source: https://groups.google.com/g/google-appengine/c/-JJccGx5RRk/m...

Did I get this right?

You are awesome. We are just choosing to remember the past with different colored glasses.

Wait, you just said in a separate comment that you migrated away from App Engine.

You also just said that you used it very effectively back when it was a different thing.

I think we agree in many more ways than we disagree.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020604

Have you actually been using it for 15 years?

My guess is not, or you would have a different opinion. But that's just a guess

AppEngine today is wildly different to the App Engine I fell in love with 15 years ago.

Since you're checking notes, please check out all the AE service deprecation notes.

Disclosure: I worked for Google for ~10 years, and I fought internally many of those deprecation decisions. I did not succeed.

FWIW, I now analyze the Stack Overflow dumps on Snowflake

https://medium.com/snowflake/how-to-load-the-stack-overflow-...

Looking at that source, there's a pretty straightforward explanation of where the page views come from.

- Last month, Stack Overflow had ~142,575,642 visits.

- Last month, Google gave 127,896,508 visits to Stack Overflow

- Last month, Bing gave 7,491,274 visits to Stack Overflow

You could say that the Stack Overflow # of pageviews depends mainly on:

- How often people are searching Google/Bing for answer.

- How often Google/Bing rank Stack Overflow high enough for people to click into it.

I love this, thanks!

How we could we add Snowflake to the compatibility matrices?

It's popular enough to deserve it, IMHO.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

I hear what you say. But does it change anything?

I've seen the opposite: It's hard to find a large company that doesn't use Oracle (but many would love to get away from it)

See this chart from Gartner DBMS Market Share stack ranks - Oracle was #1 for a long time:

- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aronthal_dbms-gartnerda-cloud...

Snowflake is now #9 on this chart.

(high res: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D2CAQGZqgH3ta2R0A/commen...)

"More popular"? Citation needed, please.

In terms of measuring popularity, I love

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Google Trends is interesting too

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2021-04-24%202...

Disclosure: I work for Snowflake

No account is required to read this, did you try?

I opened it with an incognito window, no problem.

I opened it with a logged in window, no problem.

Some authors try to monetize their posts. Not this one.

I'd love to know if your experience was somehow different.

On https://reddit.com/r/googlecloud someone noted that the latency between Europe and Asia doesn't look good.

The answer was

There's not a lot of connectivity between Europe and SE Asia the "short" way. This is not Google-specific, compare cables across Atlantic and Pacific vs. across the Indian Ocean at https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Give them a minute. Everyone is going through uncertain times. Hope you're doing well!

A big hug to all my friends at O'Reilly. Their conferences have been a big part of my career. Not only as a speaker, but I've met so many awesome people at their lunch and social occasions.

As a for-profit endeavor they have also given amazing opportunities to a diversity of speakers and topics. For many speakers it means a lot when the conference is willing to pay for their travel expenses.

Looking forward to meet you all again!

Replies are considered a spammy way of getting attention.

This wasn't Twitter arbitrarily banning you, but people repeatedly reporting your tweets. The option is right there, and aptly called "Uses the reply function to spam".

I was wondering the same!

Not every page is an article, and I'm counting page views from their logs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article...

Even then you can see in my query that I have removed most of their "special" pages.

How much should an organization spend in salaries?

Snapchat spends 1,649m in operating expenses. Wikimedia 46m in salaries.

Now, are these dollars invested paying off for our society? That's for all of us to decide.

- https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/snap/financial..., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...

Wikipedia is drowning in money?

Their audited financials:

- Cash in hand: $100m, Annual expenses: $91m - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...

Internet archive:

- Net assets: $2m, Functional expenses: $18m - https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...

6 million pages! A quick look at their distribution:

3.6M of these pages got less than 10 views during December. 4.3M pages got less than 100 views each. 2.3M got less than 1000 views. That's the long tail. On the other side 680K pages got more than 1,000 views, 111K pages got more than 10k views, only 6k pages got more than 100k views, and 90 pages were able to gather more than 1M views (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Witcher...).

In summary: The top 7.2% of Wikipedia pages earn 87% of all the monthly views.

Yesterday I posted a deeper analysis on how these pages get their daily views:

- https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-the-top-2019-wiki...

Apparently the most popular pages are all related to movies (Avengers, Joker, ...), series (Ted Bundy, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones), and deaths.

Check their homepage (just click on the link above). The project itself gives Linus the spotlight.

Quoting their front page:

In fall of 2011, when a forced lull in kernel development gave him a chance to start a new project, Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided to tackle his frustration with the lack of decent divelog software on Linux.

Linus worked with a team of developers, and Subsurface is the result. It now supports Linux, Windows and MacOS and allows data import from many dive computers and several existing divelog programs. It provides a quick and easy way to see the key information provided by a modern dive computer and lets users track a wide variety of data about their dives. In fall of 2012 Dirk Hohndel took over as Subsurface maintainer.

License: GPLv2

I post to Medium for the same reason I post videos to Youtube: Platform + audience.

Turns out my audience would rather have me post on Medium than on my personal blog:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444875

My company blog first - yes! Except that I can go from idea to post in 12 hours with Medium, and that's not at all the experience for the official posts when multiple teams want to chime in...

The last sentence says "Subscribe now for a free 30-day trial of the new Praxis blog" - so I guess that's what this one is about.

I've been looking for Medium alternatives, but my audience wants me to continue on it.

123 votes to where should I publish my posts:

- 34% Medium

- 9% Dev.to

- 45% My company's official blog

- 12% LinkedIn, my domain, ???

This tells me that - even if Medium continues to annoy their fans with their new model, I should still consider it as a great platform for quick publishing.

Survey via Twitter to my 10k followers (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/1148334055689031681).

Disclosure: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google Cloud - and I frequently post on Medium and elsewhere.

$2.6b, all cash.

- https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0606/

At Next 2018 we had Jordan Tigani (BigQuery Director at Google) and lloyd tabb (Founder of Looker) on stage together. Maybe a sign of things to come:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gYUGv_omJA