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Looker Founder, makes things with bits. Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · May 27

Ducklake is a really elegant solution to the data lake. Radically simple and completely open.

DuckDB @duckdb.org · May 27

Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ⁠ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

At Meta we are building Malloy into internal tooling (SQL shells, dashboarding tools, data applications, data pipeline orchestration). We're doing this in a way to make it easier for external tooling providers to do the same. If you want to integrate Malloy into your tooling, let us know.

lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

We're working on an embed-able Data exploration against semantic models. You can see a first draft by clicking 'Explore' in VSCode. You can embed this component into your data applications.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

@sperosck.bsky.social has completely rewritten the data rendering layer. You can easily build complex, related visualization. The rendering library is designed to be built into your data applications.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

We've recently added support data engines for Motherduck, Snowflake, Presto, Trino and MySQL.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

We're excited to see all the data folks on Bsky. Malloy (malloydata.dev) has made its way to Meta (team) and the Linux foundation (project). We've been really busy. Make sure to follow @carlineng.bsky.social and @sperosck.bsky.social for updates.

Malloy

A modern open source language for analyzing,transforming, and modeling data.

malloydata.dev

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 30

It turns out that hell actually has a timezone.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 28

SQL is a long game, we are too :)

lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 28

At Meta, we're reworking our APIs to allow much better integration. These APIs are contracts between systems. And soon, when the APIs are ready, I hope you will be hearing a lot more from us.

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · Oct 28

A lot here to process. You make a lot of great points. We're not done :). The team is cranking in a way we never could at Google. The focus of the team right now is integration. How do we get Malloy to function in right places (Query shells, pipelines, applications, interactive explore).

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lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · May 11

Twelve hours until I fall into the Zelda vortex. Wonder if my Elden Ring warrior training are going to make this too easy.

lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social · May 7

If you are bored this weekend, maybe watch my *awkward* talk on Malloy at Datacounci. It starts with limitations of SQL that you didn't think were possible to avoid and then shows how Malloy frees you from relational/dimensional tyranny.

www.datacouncil.ai

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