Data Veteran: Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka Wars Are All the Same Tech Underneath
Zachly · x · 2026-09-11
A data practitioner's take after years in the field: tooling matters less than advertised. Snowflake/BigQuery/Spark are all distributed compute; Airflow/Prefect/Mage/Dagster are all CRON; Delta Lake/Iceberg/Hudi are files on S3; SQL/DataFrames/Datasets are ASTs and optimizers; Kafka/RabbitMQ is just data waiting in a queue.
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