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121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

The Data Stack Show

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How to Build a Library and a Product

Frank: There's a big difference was my conclusion between building a library and building a product. The library got built certainly with help of colleagues that I had throughout the years, but he would say, you know, timely data flow and differential data flow together about 15,000 lines of code or something like that. They're not they're not large. You build libraries or my experience has been that when you build libraries, one of the things that's valuable is your opinion. And if I think what you're trying to do is dumb, I'll find someone to rule it out because I think like it's not going to work out well for you. But yeah, very different experiences.

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