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183 points jonbaer | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 03:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | source

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drej ◴[04 Sep 25 10:51 UTC] No.45125792[source]▶

Having done a bit of data engineering in my day, I'm growing more and more allergic to the DataFrame API (which I used 24/7 for years). From what I've seen over the past ~10 years, 90+% of use cases would be better served by SQL, both from the development perspective as well as debugging, onboarding, sharing, migrating etc.

Give an analyst AWS Athena, DuckDB, Snowflake, whatever, and they won't have to worry about looking up what m6.xlarge is and how it's different from c6g.large.

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1. RobinL ◴[04 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45127993[source]▶

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100% agree. I've also worked as a data engineer and came to the same conclusion. I wrote up a blog which went into a bit more depth on the topic here: https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_sql/

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