Hey HN, Arch CEO here! Our team has been working at the intersection of data engineering and software engineering for a few years now with Meltano (<a href="https://meltano.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://meltano.com</a>), and this year, the rise in Generative AI has made it clear that the bottleneck in unlocking the potential value of data has shifted from data integration on data teams to data engineering on software teams, so we’ve decided to do something about it.<p>This post is about the high-level motivations and long-term vision for <a href="https://arch.dev;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arch.dev;</a> please let me know if any of it resonates or if you think I’m totally off the mark :) We’ve also got a post that goes into more detail on the Arch product itself: <a href="https://www.arch.dev/blog/announcing-arch-the-data-backend-for-ai-products/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.arch.dev/blog/announcing-arch-the-data-backend-f...</a>