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Francesco Tisiot

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Francesco Tisiot writes Data and Open Source, a personal blog at ftisiot.net about data, programming and career. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “1B rows challenge in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

PostgreSQL, Kafka, data, and open source

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ftisiot · 4 karma · member since 2021

Developer Advocate at Aiven.io Personal website: ftisiot.net

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Most-linked posts?

  1. 1B rows challenge in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Just modified the original post to add the file_fdw. Again, none of the instances (PG or ClickHouse) were optimised for the workload https://ftisiot.net/posts/1brows/

    Comment linking /posts/1brows/

    on “The One Billion Row Challenge”
  2. Submitted How to Use PostgreSQL Substring as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted 1B rows challenge in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted So what does a Staff Developer Advocate do? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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