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Miles Cole

Personal blog · milescole.devdataprogramming

Miles Cole's personal blog at milescole.dev covers data and programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
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2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2025

Miles Cole’s personal data engineering blog covering data systems, performance, and the details that matter.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. RobinL · 2024-12-14

    Submitted Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? as a story · 169 points

    HN discussion
  2. jamesblonde · 2025-07-09

    Submitted The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. RobinL · 2025-07-08

    Submitted The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. DoubleFree · 2025-09-07

    Submitted The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. tosh · 2025-02-04

    Submitted Unlock Faster Writes in Delta Lake with Deletion Vectors (2024) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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