Stories by tosh

Fast Static Symbol Table (FSST): efficient random-access string compression

Lightweight Compression in DuckDB (2022)

Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store (2021)

Choropleth Map

qsv: Fast Data-Wrangling Toolkit

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Kdb+ (Time Series Database Lectures #4 Fintan Quill 2017) [video]

Frawk: An efficient Awk-like language in Rust

Nushell: Dataframes

Speed up the loop operation in R (2010)

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (Over Time)

Why Use Make (2013)

Data Science at the Command Line

Taco Bell Programming (2010)

The Lost Art of Structure Packing

Making Time for Cron Triggers (2020)

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio

Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data (2024)

Scalability But at what COST? (2015) [pdf]

ClickHouse vs. StarRocks vs. Presto vs. Trino vs. Apache Spark

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