Notebooks weren't built for the modern data stack
Jul 14, 2022

Summary
This post critiques traditional computational notebooks, highlighting their limitations in handling the scale of modern cloud data warehouses, their broken state/execution model leading to interpretability and reproducibility issues, and their inadequacy for team collaboration and sharing with stakeholders. It argues that notebooks, while having potential, are not built for the modern data stack and sets the stage for Hex's approach to address these shortcomings.