👋 Hey there!

I’m Matt Palmer, a Developer Advocate @ Mage living in San Jose, CA. This is my personal blog, where I create content on data, my goals, and whatever else comes to mind. Feel free to take a look: read a bit about me or check out some art . 🤘

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Featured

• 🌉 Conference Preview: Scale By The Bay

  Posted on:October 6, 2023 (4 min read)

  A quick look at the indie conference covering code & data in the age of AI.

• 🦾 Categorizing Documentation with GPT-4

  Posted on:September 5, 2023 (12 min read)

  Breaking down a complex problem, plus some tricks and AI. 🤖

• 🥇 Level-up with a Medallion Architecture

  Posted on:August 12, 2023 (6 min read)

  What's a medallion architecture? What are its advantages? Where does it fall short? How can you use it to become a data superstar? 🤩

• 🌎 What on Earth is Delta Lake?

  Posted on:July 10, 2023 (11 min read)

  We've all heard quite a bit about Lakehouse storage systems: Iceberg, Delta, & Hudi, but how they work is often overlooked. Today, we'll dig into Delta— what it is, how it works, and what's new in Delta 3.0.

Recent Posts

• ❗️ Declarative & Imperative Code for Data Engineering

  Posted on:July 5, 2023 (12 min read)

  How programming paradigms can revolutionize data engineering.

• 🃏 '23 Databricks Data+AI Summit: Rated

  Posted on:June 27, 2023 (8 min read)

  Whimsical ratings on the Data+AI Summit.

• 🐥 What's the hype behind DuckDB?

  Posted on:May 24, 2023 (10 min read)

  An overview of DuckDB and a neat trick to get you started. 🦆

• 🤔 Data is a meme... and that's a good thing

  Posted on:May 16, 2023 (7 min read)

  Exploring trends in short-form content about data and arguing in favor of that which builds community and generates discourse.