I’ve built data pipelines on AWS, Azure and Snowflake. Here’s what Palantir Foundry did that surprised me

Senior data engineers are trained to be skeptical of proprietary platforms. When I entered a Palantir Foundry training bootcamp, I expected to find a slow, expensive alternative to the mature tools I know on AWS and Azure. What I found instead was a platform built for a radically different user, one who cannot write SQL but needs answers now. I want to write about what I actually observed…