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Blog Posts
IceDB v3 - Third Time’s the Charm
Sep 27, 2023
icedb
databases
![IceDB v2 🧊 - An in-process Parquet merge engine to build dirt-cheap OLAP](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F09914527-aae5-4ac7-93c2-2a7178f02df7%2Ficedbv2.png?table=block&id=121b2577-ca4e-43b9-8460-9bf6d12c74af&cache=v2)
IceDB v2 🧊 - An in-process Parquet merge engine to build dirt-cheap OLAP
Jun 10, 2023
databases
Infrastructure
![Backing up ClickHouse S3-backed Tables Without Duplicating Data](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fd23796ff-0993-410b-b6d1-1f16edeb314e%2Fch-backup-blog-cover.png?table=block&id=ed3dece9-7aed-4784-8f45-ab1ed74b77ce&cache=v2)
Backing up ClickHouse S3-backed Tables Without Duplicating Data
May 5, 2023
Infrastructure
ClickHouse
![FireScroll 🔥📜 - The config database to deploy everywhere](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fc9a88726-b942-4c4c-80af-09d3cfc9bde1%2FDanTheGoodman_Beautiful_flaming_scroll_icon_for_a_database_for__9ab3a817-a8bb-4d44-b03a-b20637371fce.png?table=block&id=18f3c2bd-7093-458b-8ca1-083f688529e0&cache=v2)
FireScroll 🔥📜 - The config database to deploy everywhere
Apr 30, 2023
Infrastructure
databases
![The Age of Micro-Stream Processing](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F4edcab3d-8cf0-47de-b730-c05321247e6e%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=46db52e8-f1d4-470c-9dfc-79ef9f1cedc8&cache=v2)
The Age of Micro-Stream Processing
Jan 12, 2023
development
stream processing
![Introducing IceDB 🧊 - A Serverless JSON Analytics Database](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fc26501e0-e97e-44a5-a12e-01dbc27eaa98%2FDanTheGoodman_minimal_logo_for_a_database_made_of_ice_3e0330dd-396c-4680-8fab-33e18f623397.png?table=block&id=304f7324-d90b-4984-8b48-75efd220db17&cache=v2)
Introducing IceDB 🧊 - A Serverless JSON Analytics Database
Dec 31, 2022
databases
analytics
![Introducing SQLGateway - SQL Databases via HTTP](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fdf40b7bd-e320-41e4-afce-d1319ea855c0%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=319fdaf8-4cb5-41c4-940d-67a40844bbe6&cache=v2)
Introducing SQLGateway - SQL Databases via HTTP
Dec 18, 2022
distributed systems
engineering
databases
![Getting the most popular moments from YouTube Videos](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F0d07d123-8ad7-4576-9753-67952ff25596%2Fyt.webp?table=block&id=fe8baf9e-8749-4945-b3f9-ff1486d6ab4a&cache=v2)
Getting the most popular moments from YouTube Videos
Oct 9, 2022
youtube
development
social media
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Some thoughts on how scalable SaaS and usage based billing can hurt (with lots of caveats)
Oct 2, 2022
![Design for a Simple, Scalable, Priority Task Queue](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Ff7584797-b40d-47a3-8254-dd94898303f3%2FScreen_Shot_2022-07-17_at_7.31.58_AM.png?table=block&id=d3ffff69-c991-4c10-a605-0ba86702b407&cache=v2)
Design for a Simple, Scalable, Priority Task Queue
No managed service, no client library, just good old SQL at massive scale
Aug 17, 2022
development
databases
queues
distributed systems
engineering
![Insider Trading - The Moves of the Informed](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fb57d4753-8b02-4185-b28c-90adaf2ca883%2Fhans-eiskonen-wn57cSQ7VzI-unsplash.jpg?table=block&id=83b28450-5d46-4693-9291-0b6577bfb364&cache=v2)
Insider Trading - The Moves of the Informed
A look into who is value-buying and who is panic-selling their own company shares
May 17, 2022
investing
data science
finance
stocks
research
![Following the Money - 15 Years of SEC Filings Analyzed](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fb36c8a08-06c1-4329-930b-1c7975430b8f%2Fmarkus-winkler-jF1CqFpE62k-unsplash.jpg?table=block&id=0a502a48-0bf3-4eae-9bbe-04e9891bfcf2&cache=v2)
Following the Money - 15 Years of SEC Filings Analyzed
What over a decade of private equity sales tells us about the past, present, and future of investing
May 12, 2022
data science
finance
investing
vcs
startups
research