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Georg Heiler
Personal blog · georgheiler.comdataprogramming
Georg Heiler's personal blog at georgheiler.com covers data and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Comparing SQL-based streaming approaches”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its data engineering posts, including a 2022 guide to interactive debugging in Dagster. One commenter says it helped them with Dagster debugging.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Georg - solving problems with data
Most-linked posts?
- Comparing SQL-based streaming approaches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-17
What Hacker News says?
As some others already posted: There is more to copying data than just moving it. It is about observability. A lot of companies have created their own frameworks. One example I find useful for a lot of usecases is dagster. You can define resources to encapsulate complexity https://docs.dagster.io/guides/build/external-resources in fact with components build on top of custom DSLs https://docs.dagster.io/guides/labs/c…
Comment linking /event/magenta-data-architecture-25/
on “Ask HN: Why don't we have a functional DSL for data+embedding+API pipelines?”Submitted Mix data SaaS workloads (Databricks vs. EMR) to save money by using dagster as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFunny thing, I'm trying to get going with Dagster today like I said, and figuring out how to debug is a bit .. annoying. The most helpful post I've come across so far just happens to be https://georgheiler.com/2022/02/02/interactive-dagster-debug... So thanks!
Comment linking /2022/02/02/interactive-dagster-debugging/
on a deleted threadSubmitted Getting Better at Data Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing SQL-based streaming approaches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing SQL based streaming analytics approaches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlocking Advanced Metadata Extraction with the New DBT API in Dagster as a story · 1 points
HN discussion