[HN Gopher] Snowflake to acquire Streamlit ___________________________________________________________________ Snowflake to acquire Streamlit Author : talltofu Score : 53 points Date : 2022-03-02 21:59 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.streamlit.io) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.streamlit.io) | talltofu wrote: | https://youtu.be/vDD7oKVkcCk | notacanofsoda wrote: | Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy | fairly different niches. | skadamat wrote: | I'm knee deep in the data tooling space myself and it's quirky | at first but not too surprising. | | This resembles the Google Cloud acquisition of Kaggle, or | Microsoft's acquisition of Github. For better or for worse, | these larger players / platforms are buying a large community | around the hip tool. Snowflake wants to be a giant data | platform company, not just "another data warehouse". | tomrod wrote: | No stranger than Confluence acquiring Chartio. Snowflake has | been making some interesting ventures and investments (eg | Sigma Computing). | | As a user of data tooling, bundling data pipelining, cloud | warehousing, visualization, and MLOPs into a consistent | environment is helpful and lowers tooling cost. Streamlit is | frankly fantastic and one of my personal favorite tools. | | Source: Myself, and I have family that run Datateer, an up | and coming pipelining/analytics ops player in the space. | talltofu wrote: | Does this compete with or complement their Snowpark feature? | ricklamers wrote: | Complement. Snowpark pushes compute to the SQL engine. That's | a better model for Streamlit's dashboard code anyway :) | duncan-donuts wrote: | Not really? Wouldn't the streamlit app/notebook/editor | experience compliment the snowflake data warehousing solutions | well? | skadamat wrote: | Yeah it definitely would. Historically, to OP's hesitation, | databases & data warehouses haven't purchased BI tools, | application layers, etc. But this is starting to change (e.g. | Databricks bought Redash, an open source BI platform) | tomrod wrote: | Databricks immediately comes to mind as well. When it's | assembled right, it's a fantastic tooling. | IanCal wrote: | I think it's a key area snowflake have been lacking. Built in | nice dashboards that are as easy to throw together as a | streamlit app would be a killer feature. Their lack in this | area was a key issue for me. | gotmedium wrote: | dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30533250 | xiaodai wrote: | streamlit is a nifty ableit limited package. Well done. | nyellin wrote: | Very cool. | | A few months ago I tried building a configuration manager for | robusta.dev using streamlit. | | Basically I wanted to autogenerate a frontend for arbitrary | Pydantic models (in my case configurations of Kubernetes | automations). The tooling was still lacking so I abandoned the | project, but it was really cool just how far I could get with | writing almost no code. A way better experience than all the no | code tools IMO ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-02 23:00 UTC)