neeleshs

Syncari | Remote (US only) | Full-time | Director, Solutions Engineering

We are an all-in-one modern data integration, management, workflow and analytics platform.

VC funded, small team. Hiring for Director, Solutions Engineering team, to run our onboarding, implementation including PS and support functions.

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Comp: $175k base + bonus + equity + 95% healthcare contribution (medical+dental+vision and some life insurance)

We don't sponsor visas at the moment

I use LLM to generate complete solutions to small technical problems. "Write an input stream implementation that skips lines based on a regex".

Hard for an IDE auto complete to do this.

Or a tapestry! (I have one in our dining room)

I see. HTMX and others target the browser, which is primarily an HTML renderer. So there is nothing inherently bad about page transfers. That's what hypermedia is about.

React et al try to create a different paradigm on top of this. And that makes it like building a desktop UI AND a server app

To me, this is not in anyway better than building something for the browser - pages and html.

Can you say more about what didn't work with HTMX? What parts make terrible DX?

I also think HTMX is meant mostly for backend developers to be more productive in frontend.

Even with react, we have found that having a separate API layer was more ergonomic.

Maybe with graphql it is different

B25 for Bloom would've been nicer

Yep. BQ,GKE, and at a metalevel the simpler project structure -all have been great. I cannot still fully understand the org hierarchy that AWS has yet.

I'm probably an outlier here. My experience with GCP support has been nothing but stellar, like I described in another comment down below

I've had similar experiences with Google as well. Reaching out with new services, hours with some of their technical people, invites to meetups, free credits, an extremely pleasing and responsive account manager. We spend a few hundred thousand dollars a year with them. The actual software is top notch. Most haven't been just turn it on and forget it.

Do you do this in raw react, or use some third party carousel library? If so, maybe something like that can be used with HTMX as well?

But your larger point stands, HTMX is probably not a great fit for highly interactive webapps, even though you can push it pretty far

More often than not, forms are the database model. They very frequently evolve together. The entire data transfer object to model copy back and forth is unnecessary most of the time

Spring boot has form validations pretty much out of the box, via validation annotations.

I have had a similar experience with their API. Very verbose json structure, lack of stable row IDs, inconsistent data types. And being a spreadsheet, it also has to have styling/formatting details, complicating it even more.

The newer version of Java has much better syntax.

Interestingly I did something similar with Claude, asking it to generate tailwind/HTML components instead. And copy/pasting them as Thymeleaf fragments for a java/springboot + htmx project.

Then something like DaisyUI/HyperUI + HTMX? And depending on the backend you can do components (eg: For Django there is django-cotton and others that help).

95%! Isn't that too bitter? One square of 72% works best for me, 85% is pushing it.

You might want to look at django-cotton for components

I am now inspired to build a toy project to learn how it all works!

Pretty cool. I'm excited about databases using this. Feels like Neon's PostgreSQL storage, but generalized to an FS.

Is this like FUSE with a cache? How does cache invalidation work?

All the best!

There will also be a cult that says this is all borrowing time from the future and we will run out of time eventually.

Codegen, contentgen, and driving existing products in human language (which you can largely bucket into interactive codegen)

Fantastic!

Congratulations! I was looking and pg_analytics from ParadeDB hoping this use case would be solved (the dump from pg to parquet part), but it doesnt yet do it.

How does it handle updates?

That's the ethos of commerce for thousands of years. Try to pay the least to get the best

This story is more an exception than norm.

I know startups that hired data engineers, deployed warehouses,DBT, a BI tool and churned hundreds of reports, and in one case their DBT project has hundreds of files. No one in that company knew why any of it was used.

All said and done the business users wanted three reports.

More often than not data teams are self-serving than anything else.

Yes. Eliminating problems by adding "features" to the product/business.