Serhii Sokolenko
@datancoff.ee
Building @Tower.dev. Used to work on data platforms at Databricks, Snowflake, Google Cloud Dataflow and AWS RDS. Sometimes invest in data-related projects.
New Feature 🚨 Alert: Alerts in Tower! 😜
Let the bots monitor your Tower jobs and get notified when your attention is really needed.
tower.dev/blog/better-...
Let the bots monitor your Tower jobs and get notified when your attention is really needed.
tower.dev/blog/better-...
May 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New Feature 🚨 Alert: Alerts in Tower! 😜
Let the bots monitor your Tower jobs and get notified when your attention is really needed.
tower.dev/blog/better-...
Let the bots monitor your Tower jobs and get notified when your attention is really needed.
tower.dev/blog/better-...
Forgive me, Data Father, I have sinned. We at Tower created an orchestrator that is not a data flow and not a DAG. It has:
- a way to run apps
- a way to wait for runs to finish
- a scheduler
That's it
You can't solve world hunger with it, but everything else you can
tower.dev/blog/pythoni...
- a way to run apps
- a way to wait for runs to finish
- a scheduler
That's it
You can't solve world hunger with it, but everything else you can
tower.dev/blog/pythoni...
May 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Forgive me, Data Father, I have sinned. We at Tower created an orchestrator that is not a data flow and not a DAG. It has:
- a way to run apps
- a way to wait for runs to finish
- a scheduler
That's it
You can't solve world hunger with it, but everything else you can
tower.dev/blog/pythoni...
- a way to run apps
- a way to wait for runs to finish
- a scheduler
That's it
You can't solve world hunger with it, but everything else you can
tower.dev/blog/pythoni...
🚨 New Features Monday!
1️⃣ Support for Iceberg Catalogs inside Tower apps
2️⃣ Tower SDK with Tower Tables, probably the simplest way to read and write to Iceberg tables from Python code
“pip install tower” installs both the Tower CLI and the SDK including Tables.
tower.dev/blog/launchi...
1️⃣ Support for Iceberg Catalogs inside Tower apps
2️⃣ Tower SDK with Tower Tables, probably the simplest way to read and write to Iceberg tables from Python code
“pip install tower” installs both the Tower CLI and the SDK including Tables.
tower.dev/blog/launchi...
May 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨 New Features Monday!
1️⃣ Support for Iceberg Catalogs inside Tower apps
2️⃣ Tower SDK with Tower Tables, probably the simplest way to read and write to Iceberg tables from Python code
“pip install tower” installs both the Tower CLI and the SDK including Tables.
tower.dev/blog/launchi...
1️⃣ Support for Iceberg Catalogs inside Tower apps
2️⃣ Tower SDK with Tower Tables, probably the simplest way to read and write to Iceberg tables from Python code
“pip install tower” installs both the Tower CLI and the SDK including Tables.
tower.dev/blog/launchi...
A few weeks ago, we demoed Tower.dev at the AI Launchpad stage of the Data Council. Several dozen prospect conversations later, I finally had the time to post some pictures and the most memorable moments from that week.
tower.dev/blog/ai-laun...
tower.dev/blog/ai-laun...
May 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A few weeks ago, we demoed Tower.dev at the AI Launchpad stage of the Data Council. Several dozen prospect conversations later, I finally had the time to post some pictures and the most memorable moments from that week.
tower.dev/blog/ai-laun...
tower.dev/blog/ai-laun...
The @tower.dev team went to the Iceberg Summit and came back with 7 takeaways from 7 Iceberg user talks from Airbnb, Bloomberg, Pinterest, Wise, Autodesk, Mediaset (Bauplan), and Slack. tower.dev/blog/seven-t...
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The @tower.dev team went to the Iceberg Summit and came back with 7 takeaways from 7 Iceberg user talks from Airbnb, Bloomberg, Pinterest, Wise, Autodesk, Mediaset (Bauplan), and Slack. tower.dev/blog/seven-t...
@lucas.meyerperin.org what is this one called? My son discovered it in the local pond
April 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
@lucas.meyerperin.org what is this one called? My son discovered it in the local pond
I finally saw the GAP! It's actually pretty large!
March 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I finally saw the GAP! It's actually pretty large!
The ducks have done it again. Kudos to the @motherduck.com team for building a local UI for DuckDB:
1️⃣ Use this UI on your laptop to run SQL queries on Iceberg tables in S3
2️⃣ Get closer to the multi-engine, shared storage nirvana
3️⃣ Set-up time of ⌚ 32 minutes, door-to-door
tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...
1️⃣ Use this UI on your laptop to run SQL queries on Iceberg tables in S3
2️⃣ Get closer to the multi-engine, shared storage nirvana
3️⃣ Set-up time of ⌚ 32 minutes, door-to-door
tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...
March 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The ducks have done it again. Kudos to the @motherduck.com team for building a local UI for DuckDB:
1️⃣ Use this UI on your laptop to run SQL queries on Iceberg tables in S3
2️⃣ Get closer to the multi-engine, shared storage nirvana
3️⃣ Set-up time of ⌚ 32 minutes, door-to-door
tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...
1️⃣ Use this UI on your laptop to run SQL queries on Iceberg tables in S3
2️⃣ Get closer to the multi-engine, shared storage nirvana
3️⃣ Set-up time of ⌚ 32 minutes, door-to-door
tower.dev/blog/get-a-g...
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Teaching 5 teammates how to fish is better than owning 5 fishing rods. It's true for fishermen. It's also true for data engineers.
Tower.dev's Teams let your teammates self-serve their change requests, while you get back time to work on strategic projects
tower.dev/blog/turning...
Tower.dev's Teams let your teammates self-serve their change requests, while you get back time to work on strategic projects
tower.dev/blog/turning...
March 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Teaching 5 teammates how to fish is better than owning 5 fishing rods. It's true for fishermen. It's also true for data engineers.
Tower.dev's Teams let your teammates self-serve their change requests, while you get back time to work on strategic projects
tower.dev/blog/turning...
Tower.dev's Teams let your teammates self-serve their change requests, while you get back time to work on strategic projects
tower.dev/blog/turning...
AI coding assistants like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the 😎 customers of 👷 data engineers! tower.dev/blog/ai-auto...
January 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
AI coding assistants like Cursor are not the 10x productivity boosters for data engineers and not their replacements, as some talking heads claim. But they can be 10x multipliers for another group of folks - the 😎 customers of 👷 data engineers! tower.dev/blog/ai-auto...
Original Banksy in Berlin. Ping me for location
January 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Original Banksy in Berlin. Ping me for location
How do you run 🐍 Python data apps on Iceberg open tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure ⁉️
That's how:
1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev
2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3️⃣ Run this app on Tower
tower.dev/blog/how-tow...
That's how:
1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev
2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3️⃣ Run this app on Tower
tower.dev/blog/how-tow...
January 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
How do you run 🐍 Python data apps on Iceberg open tables without going bonkers settings up infrastructure ⁉️
That's how:
1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev
2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3️⃣ Run this app on Tower
tower.dev/blog/how-tow...
That's how:
1️⃣ Sign up for Tower.dev
2️⃣ Take your Python script and turn it into a Tower app
3️⃣ Run this app on Tower
tower.dev/blog/how-tow...
Final post of my series on how to build an open, multi-engine lakehouse using Python-only tools is out.
Learn how to use 🐻❄️Polars to query an open lakehouse, enabled by a managed 🛏️REST Iceberg catalog.
tower.dev/blog/ducks-v...
Learn how to use 🐻❄️Polars to query an open lakehouse, enabled by a managed 🛏️REST Iceberg catalog.
tower.dev/blog/ducks-v...
December 19, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Final post of my series on how to build an open, multi-engine lakehouse using Python-only tools is out.
Learn how to use 🐻❄️Polars to query an open lakehouse, enabled by a managed 🛏️REST Iceberg catalog.
tower.dev/blog/ducks-v...
Learn how to use 🐻❄️Polars to query an open lakehouse, enabled by a managed 🛏️REST Iceberg catalog.
tower.dev/blog/ducks-v...
Today's Hamlets, Princes of Denmark, ask the question differently: "To use or Not to use Snowflake Open Catalog as managed Iceberg catalog?"
I summoned the inner Shakespeare and penned an answer. Lemme know what you think. Or not.
tower.dev/blog/picking...
I summoned the inner Shakespeare and penned an answer. Lemme know what you think. Or not.
tower.dev/blog/picking...
December 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today's Hamlets, Princes of Denmark, ask the question differently: "To use or Not to use Snowflake Open Catalog as managed Iceberg catalog?"
I summoned the inner Shakespeare and penned an answer. Lemme know what you think. Or not.
tower.dev/blog/picking...
I summoned the inner Shakespeare and penned an answer. Lemme know what you think. Or not.
tower.dev/blog/picking...
Can Python compete with DuckDB and Spark as the "query engine" for Iceberg-based lakehouses? Wrote a little piece that begins to answer that Q
tower.dev/blog/buildin...
tower.dev/blog/buildin...
December 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Can Python compete with DuckDB and Spark as the "query engine" for Iceberg-based lakehouses? Wrote a little piece that begins to answer that Q
tower.dev/blog/buildin...
tower.dev/blog/buildin...
Starting the day right @tower.dev HQ. Come work with us! Distributed Systems Engineers and Frontend Engineers are welcome to get in touch.
December 5, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Starting the day right @tower.dev HQ. Come work with us! Distributed Systems Engineers and Frontend Engineers are welcome to get in touch.
Whaa? This is not your book? I leaned NNs and Python using this book, and i have sticky notes to prove it. The last 6 years have been a lie (crying)
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Whaa? This is not your book? I leaned NNs and Python using this book, and i have sticky notes to prove it. The last 6 years have been a lie (crying)