It looks like you win the "coincidentally correct" prize, as Wired is reporting that a hacked Snowflake service partner was storing customer credentials in Jira tickets.
"on the first day of their biggest rival’s annual conference"
it's even better than that! I was in the audience at Summit while Christian Kleinerman was on stage announcing Polaris when I looked at my phone and saw a notification from X about the Tabular purchase, 5 minutes earlier. It was brilliantly petty and very much like the big reveal in a reality tv show.
Oh man, I hope that they really just sitting there with their finger on the publish button, waiting for Snowflake to start talking about Iceberg stuff on stage. It really is this skit (which is the same people as the header image, as it happens) for the nerdiest thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTbNms5yHgI
Oh man, that's incredible. It had to be someone in the audience saying publish now. Also, I'm assuming that Snowflake had insider information on the purchase and because they went so hands on deck getting Polaris out the door in time for Summit. Which was an impressive pull and is even more that skit!
Yeah, and Snowflake was allegedly trying to buy them too (which, given the price, makes sense, because it seems like you'd only get to a number that big if there was a bidding war). So I'm sure they were either told directly that they were going with Databricks, or put that very easy 2 and 2 together.
It looks like you win the "coincidentally correct" prize, as Wired is reporting that a hacked Snowflake service partner was storing customer credentials in Jira tickets.
Gah, always is.
"on the first day of their biggest rival’s annual conference"
it's even better than that! I was in the audience at Summit while Christian Kleinerman was on stage announcing Polaris when I looked at my phone and saw a notification from X about the Tabular purchase, 5 minutes earlier. It was brilliantly petty and very much like the big reveal in a reality tv show.
Oh man, I hope that they really just sitting there with their finger on the publish button, waiting for Snowflake to start talking about Iceberg stuff on stage. It really is this skit (which is the same people as the header image, as it happens) for the nerdiest thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTbNms5yHgI
Oh man, that's incredible. It had to be someone in the audience saying publish now. Also, I'm assuming that Snowflake had insider information on the purchase and because they went so hands on deck getting Polaris out the door in time for Summit. Which was an impressive pull and is even more that skit!
Yeah, and Snowflake was allegedly trying to buy them too (which, given the price, makes sense, because it seems like you'd only get to a number that big if there was a bidding war). So I'm sure they were either told directly that they were going with Databricks, or put that very easy 2 and 2 together.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2024/06/10/why-databricks-tabular-play-has-put-snowflake-on-the-defensive/