PinnedTom SwanninInside Business InsiderObservable Data Quality with Elementary and DataHubWe on the Insider Data team are big fans of dbt and our engineers, analysts, and scientists use it extensively to handle data…6 min read·Jul 27, 2023----
PinnedTom SwannExploring AWS NeptuneUse cases and considerations for non-functional requirements when using Amazon’s Graph DB as-a-service offering.8 min read·Aug 17, 2021----
Tom SwannExploring Cortex: AI on the Snowflake Data CloudNot long ago, I covered some of the upcoming roadmap features of Snowflake, as they were presented at the London Data Cloud World Tour.4 min read·Mar 15, 2024----
Tom SwannSnowflake Data Cloud World TourIn which our intrepid correspondant provides summary and some amount of insight on the London leg of the Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour…7 min read·Oct 10, 2023----
Tom SwannLow Code Microsoft Public Cloud ServicesHello friends! I’m back with a new blog post after *checks watch* about a year and half. Better late than never and I have my excuses all…8 min read·Apr 9, 2021----
Tom SwannThoughts from AI Con 2019AI Con held its inaugural event at the Europa hotel in Belfast at the end of November, the first dedicated Artificial Intelligence…8 min read·Dec 12, 2019----
Tom SwannExtensible Function Dispatch in PythonThis post is all about the generic functions capability in Python 3. This was initially a bit mystifying to me — “Generics and function…5 min read·Oct 19, 2017----
Tom SwannDesign for lifeI want to talk about a project I recently worked on — the Help With Prison Visits service — and specifically about how the development team…5 min read·Jun 1, 2017--1--1
Tom SwanninKainosThe Data Storage RevolutionLife used to be relatively simple for the architect who wanted to store data somewhere. The relational database management system (RDBMS)…7 min read·Feb 8, 2017--2--2
Tom SwannBirdTrack and the power of Citizen ScienceI recently retired my old blog and thought I might take a scorched earth approach to the migration as there wasn’t much I wanted to keep…4 min read·Oct 13, 2016----