Blog
Notes on building SAMSKARA — the decisions, the trade-offs, and why we think small data teams don't need a large cloud platform.
August 1, 2026
Samskara is now in early access
Why we're opening up SAMSKARA, and what we mean by 'data engineering without platform complexity.'
July 31, 2026
Why we built ArrowLake
How we ended up combining DuckDB and Apache Iceberg into a lakehouse layer that needs no cluster of its own — and what we gave up to get there.
July 30, 2026
Why we built Samskara
The gap between a notebook full of scripts and a full cloud data platform, and why we think most teams are stuck in the wrong place on that spectrum.
Coming soon
- Why DuckDB changes data engineeringDraft
- Building an analytics platform without SparkDraft
- Lessons building AI into notebooksDraft
- Why small companies don't need DatabricksDraft