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by smithclay 22d ago
Feel like AWS got a lot of the concepts right with S3 Tables* ("serverless" Iceberg catalog on top of S3) ... would love, love to see a version of S3 Tables that lets you choose between Ducklake or Iceberg as the catalog. * Cloudf
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by smithclay 3mo ago
As someone who lives in central San Francisco: Costco is amazing with a cargo bike (or Waymo off-peak). Haven't had Amazon Prime for 2+ years and don't miss it, but would definitely miss my Costco membership.
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by smithclay 3mo ago
If you're reading this and curious: consider writing a duckdb community extension* or contributing to an existing one* duckdb is becoming a kind of data superglue between a lot of data ecosystems (GIS, observability, analytics, lakehou
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by smithclay 4mo ago
Not yet. That said… think duckdb/ducklake/quack could potentially be a future replacement for Mimir or Clickstack with way less operational complexity.
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by smithclay 4mo ago
Been working on open-source projects involving storing and querying observability data (metrics, logs, traces) in parquet[0] and have been frustrated with the usability of Apache Iceberg … despite strongly agreeing and wanting to use an ope
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by smithclay 6mo ago
sprites.dev / fly.io has publicly said they are using a variant of JuiceFS for the object-storage-to-VM-filesystem stuff, it's cool tech. * https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/ * https:/&
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by smithclay 7mo ago
The Claude Code analytics space is really interesting to me right now as well, this is cool. I'm coming at it from more of the data infrastructure side (e.g. send all of your logs and metrics to a cheap Iceberg catalog in the cloud so
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by smithclay 7mo ago
High-quality digital twins of complex software does not bode well at all for a lot of SaaS companies. For customers, it makes migrations much easier and less-risky between vendors. For the vendors themselves, it means you can cheaply and
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by smithclay 8mo ago
Personally: love the decorator pattern after I got used to it :) Posted this yesterday as well, but seems like a really nice emerging pythonic way to call out to remote infrastructure (see: Modal[1]). [1]: https://modal.com/
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by smithclay 8mo ago
This looks cool, love the approach of a more "pythonic" infra as code -- have also noticed this pattern in Modal [1] and Ray [2] and all for it. [1] https://modal.com/docs/examples/hackernews_alerts [2]
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by smithclay 8mo ago
We need more rigorous benchmarks for SRE tasks, which is much easier said that done. The only other benchmark I've come across is https://sreben.ch/ ... certainly there must be others by now?
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by smithclay 8mo ago
Anthropic ships an official plugin to create linters for you based on your Claude Code history or instructions, it’s great. You can vibe code your lint rules per repo. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree
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by smithclay 8mo ago
This is part of a bigger consolidation trend, AI hype or not: which general-purpose data vendor gets to store and query all of your observability and business data? Snowflake acquired Observe last week, AWS made it easy in December to put l
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by smithclay 8mo ago
This is an emerging pattern that’s surprisingly powerful: thick clients that embed wasm query engines (pglite, duckdb) and do powerful analytics (with or without AI agents writing the queries). Below are two examples using duckdb under the
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by smithclay 8mo ago
Agree with the author, will add: duckdb is an extremely compelling choice if you’re a developer and want to embed analytics in your app (which can also run in a web browser with wasm!) Think this opens up a lot of interesting possibilities
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by smithclay 8mo ago
https://clay.fyi
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by smithclay 8mo ago
Kudos to Ben for speaking to one of the elephants in the room in observability: data waste and the impact it has on your bill. All major vendors have a nice dashboard and sometimes alerts to understand usage (broken down by signal type or t
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by smithclay 9mo ago
This is great. If you’re skeptical, vibe coding in the go is great because of how async the agentic coding workflows can be. Nothing like fixing a bug in the dentist office. Lots of different technical solutions for how to do this, includin
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DuckDB-terminal: A browser-based SQL Terminal for DuckDB powered by Ghostty(github.com)
3 points by smithclay 9mo ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 10mo ago
Thanks for the PR, blame myself for the issue more than Claude :) Forgot OTLP log bodies could be arrays/non-strings and was not a test case.
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by smithclay 10mo ago
The blog post is not, the rust glue code is.
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Show HN: Cheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with Parquet, DuckDB, and Iceberg(clay.fyi)
4 points by smithclay 10mo ago|4 comments
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by smithclay 11mo ago
Been experimenting with OpenTelemetry->Parquet conversion lately for logs, metrics, and traces. Lots of related projects popping up in this area. It's powerful and cheap. - https://github.com/smithclay/otlp2parq
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by smithclay 1y ago
My favorite "malleable" example this past week that I recommend: using Gen AI to rewrite, customize, or create dotfiles* for your laptop/desktop. Defining a bespoke system config was always something that never had the time,
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by smithclay 1y ago
Hey, it's not well known but Anthropic actually publishes their own devcontainer feature layer for this (1). Many different CLI wrappers and tools are starting to imbed it (2) but is a nice DIY/open-source way to sandbox. 1. http
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by smithclay 1y ago
similar: blink + tailscale + zellij + devcontainers
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by smithclay 1y ago
For the skeptics: using Claude Code from your phone is kind of great. Think this sort of solution is excellent once you've figured out a good workflow. Open-sourced my own duct-taped way* of doing this with free/open-source stuff
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The unexpected joy of Claude Code on your iPhone(clay.fyi)
1 points by smithclay 1y ago|1 comments
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by smithclay 1y ago
This is also true of (technical) product managers from an engineering background. It's been amazing to spin up quick React prototypes during a lunch break of concepts and ideas for quick feedback and reactions.
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by smithclay 1y ago
If you're interested in learning more about solo sailing voyages, the new non-fiction book "Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea" by Richard King is fascinating. https://www.goodread

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