Alex Ott Profile
Alex Ott

@alexott_en

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Lead Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks. (all opinions are my own)

Paderborn, Germany
Joined January 2010
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Alex Ott
7 months
Nice play @GoodReaderApp - I reported multiple times that app crashes during the sync, no answer or fix. I left 1 star review pointing to that, and it was taken down by @Apple as violating ToS…
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Alex Ott
10 months
Blogged: "Efficient use of the latest DLT features for cybersecurity use cases" (DLT == Delta Live Tables) https://t.co/jmdi8o9PLd
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Alex Ott
1 year
Blogged: "Working with huge Terraform states". Some notes about one of my "crazy projects" involving Terraform... https://t.co/eYjIFwfc3w
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Alex Ott
1 year
for me it's more than 600 clicks on the phone
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Alex Ott
1 year
Great design decisions by @ING_Deutschland - you can't just enter your birthday, you need to select it in calendar! I want that designer was 100 years old to use it... 🤦
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Alex Ott
1 year
Weekend fun with new PySpark Data Sources API... Blogged: "Spark custom data sources and sinks for cybersecurity use cases" https://t.co/Kuwo3e0YPo
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Alex Ott
1 year
achievement unlocked - SO account is suspended for a week after I concur removal of blog link from my posts…
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Alex Ott
1 year
Stackoverflow/Stackexchange will finally fail not because of ChatGPT, but because of their moderators…
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Alex Ott
1 year
And a follow up blog post on use of @databricks REST API vs. SDK vs. CLI https://t.co/7tD5cE3Cjc
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Alex Ott
1 year
wrote a blog post about Terraform vs. Databricks Asset Bundles last week but forgot to post it here: https://t.co/PZxdvv95hY #terraform #databricks #dabs
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Alex Ott
1 year
I’ve used TriTag on Mac for quite a long time, but it broke when I moved to M2-based Mac. Yesterday I finally found some time and built it from source using Xcode (first time in my life) + Google… Was able to get a working version in one hour…
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Alex Ott
2 years
got GitHub copilot for free today - as OSS maintainer
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Alex Ott
2 years
Working at big data company: Expectations: Spark, ML, Python, … Reality: debugging and fixing Terraform to work with huge (100ks resources)….
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Alex Ott
2 years
I’m wondering how Twitter engineers could be so stupid to not to block messages like L I N K I N B I O that are everywhere… or its just monetization?
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Alex Ott
2 years
Technical blog about DBRX is very interesting...
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Databricks
2 years
#DBRX sets a new standard for efficient open source LLMs. While it has 132B total parameters, with its fine-grained MoE architecture, DBRX only uses 36B at any given time. Learn more about how we built #DBRX & benchmarked its performance. https://t.co/oNiffY3bqF
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Databricks
2 years
Meet #DBRX: a general-purpose LLM that sets a new standard for efficient open source models. Use the DBRX model in your RAG apps or use the DBRX design to build your own custom LLMs and improve the quality of your GenAI applications. https://t.co/wXzxQOZym6
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Alex Ott
2 years
Upgraded from my old MacBook to Mac Studio. Migration assistant did a good work of migrating data, including all settings and even cron schedule… The only problem was that Podcasts removed played files (default setting), so i was need to redownload them :-(
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Alex Ott
2 years
Happy New Year! traditional blog post:
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Alex Ott
2 years
Now even my work @SlackHQ is converted to the new design. My eyes are bleeding. I think that it's a great way of stopping people from overusing Slack for communication...
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Alex Ott
2 years
Blogged: "Delta Live Tables recipes: Consuming from Azure Event Hubs using OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication" https://t.co/7vPdY75pLy
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