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Dan Goodman
Personal blog · blog.danthegoodman.comdatasystemsprogramming
Dan Goodman writes Mind of Dan, a personal blog at blog.danthegoodman.com about data, systems and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Goodman's posts on data infrastructure, such as his IceDB project, a serverless layer on DuckDB for remote storage. One commenter cites his IceDB post while describing its limits.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Inside the mind of Dan Goodman
What Hacker News says?
I've been following DuckDB for a while now, and even tinkered with a layer on top called "IceDB" (totally needs a rewrite: https://blog.danthegoodman.com/introducing-icedb--a-serverle... ) The issue I see now is that there is no good way to know what files will match well when reading from remote (decoupled) storage. While it does support hive partitioning (thank god), and S3 list calls, if you are looking at doing…
Comment linking /introducing-icedb--a-serverless-json-analytics-database
on “The Simple Joys of Scaling Up”Submitted IceDB v3 – Third Time's the Charm (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IceDB v2 – An in-process Parquet merge engine to build dirt-cheap OLAP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FireScroll: An unkillable multi-region KV database that scales reads to infinity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Micro-Stream Processing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion