[HN Gopher] Snowflake to acquire Streamlit
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       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
        
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