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Bauplan
Company blog · bauplanlabs.com/blogdataprogramming
Bauplan is the company blog at bauplanlabs.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly discuss the Bauplan data lakehouse product and link its blog for use cases, such as an ephemeral in-memory graph run per request with Kuzu. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bauplan is a serverless data platform where AI agents and data engineers build safely on production data. Run versioned Python pipelines on Apache Iceberg with isolated branches and atomic publishing — no infrastructure required.
What Hacker News says?
Hey Ben, thanks for your message. We have people building stuff featured here ( https://www.bauplanlabs.com/build-with-bauplan ) as well as online (e.g. https://blog.det.life/bauplan-the-serverless-data-lakehouse-... ), plus of of course our examples repo in Github that you can check as part of the tutorial. Our largest client is a 5BN / USD year company running thousands of jobs on bauplan. If you have something in…
Comment linking /build-with-bauplan
on “A Python-first data lakehouse”Submitted A Python-first data lakehouse as a story · 140 points
HN discussionYep, staying service. RE: workflow orchestrators. You can use the Bauplan SDK to query, launch jobs and get results from within your existing platform, we don’t want to replace entirely if it’s doesn’t fit for you, just to augment. RE: DuckDB and Polars. It literally uses DuckDB under the hood but with two huge upgrades: one, we plug into your data catalog for really efficient scanning even on massive data lake hous…
Comment linking /blog/blending-duckdb-and-iceberg-for-optimal-olap
on “Bauplan – Git-for-data pipelines on object storage”Submitted Duck Hunt: Moving Bauplan from DuckDB to DataFusion as a story · 17 points
HN discussion> or is this a platform that maybe runs on k8s and provides its own serverless compute resources? This one, although it’s a custom orchestration system, not Kubernetes. (there are some similarities but our system is really optimized for data workloads) We manage Iceberg for easy data versioning, take care of data caching and Python modules, etc., and you just write some Python and SQL and exec it over your data cata…
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on “Bauplan – Git-for-data pipelines on object storage”Submitted Blending DuckDB and Apache Iceberg for Optimal Cloud OLAP as a story · 6 points
HN discussion+1 to kuzu: kuzu runs as ephemeral memory graph at every request in Bauplan as of today - which means 10k times a day at least ;-) We shared our use case publicly, with a bit of details on performance gains and simplicity: https://www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/ephemeral-graphs-for-data-d...
Comment linking /blog/ephemeral-graphs-for-data-dags
on “Ask HN: What is your preferred open source graph database?”Submitted We solved trust for AI Agents in 1973 (we just forgot) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAuthor here but some ideas I was thinking about: - An open source data pipeline built on top of R2. A way of keeping data on R2/S3 but then having execution handled in Workers/Lambda. Inspired by what https://www.boilingdata.com/ and https://www.bauplanlabs.com/ are doing. - Related to above but taking data that's stored in the various big data formats (Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi, etc) and generating many more combinati…
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on “From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity”Submitted Serverless is still not designed for data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevEx for developers who don't write code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Duck Hunt: Moving Bauplan from DuckDB to DataFusion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build, ship and run containers is too slow for Python as a story · 1 points
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