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Posted to commits@drill.apache.org by dz...@apache.org on 2021/11/01 04:50:58 UTC

[drill-site] branch master updated: Blog post update.

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     new ae4a7f0  Blog post update.
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commit ae4a7f010703ef291c77b815d6fdb0a44d50d229
Author: James Turton <ja...@somecomputer.xyz>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 1 06:50:46 2021 +0200

    Blog post update.
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 There's a somewhat breathless post entitled "The Death of Apache Drill" in a blog that has as a theme the imminent demise of technologies previously or currently associated with Hadoop, with the exception of Trino (formerly known as PrestoSQL).  It's ultimately a promotional piece for the website's owner, which is entirely normal and usually it wouldn't warrant further mention.  But it's done whatever it is that it takes to climb up to the first page of the search results for "Apache Dri [...]
 
-Firstly, the title proclaims a little too much.  Drill did suffer the loss of its primary corporate backer, and of course its pulse has been faint as a result, but we invite the author to visit the project and reconsider his declaration of death.   We don't have hundreds of active contributors making thousands of commits a year but there are enough of us to get bugs fixed, new data sources supported, performance and reliability improved.  In the near future I'll blog about our work on El [...]
+Firstly, the title proclaims a little too much.  Drill did suffer the loss of its primary corporate backer, and of course its pulse has been faint as a result, but we invite the author to visit the project and reconsider his declaration of death.   We don't have hundreds of active contributors making thousands of commits a year but there are enough of us to get bugs fixed, new data sources supported, and performance and reliability improved.  In the near future I'll blog about our recent [...]
 
 We've started talking about speeding up our release cadence to better reflect our recent activity.  We're rekindling the project's communication channels, and improving and translating our documentation.  Metrics like [downloads of Drill-related software](https://pepy.tech/project/sqlalchemy-drill) suggest to us that interest has stopped trending down and started trending up.  If this is death, in short, then the phenomenon is a lot less about resting in peace than we've allowed ourselve [...]