Stories by tosh

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

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

Amazon EC2 U7i instances (up to 32 TiB RAM)

Indirection

The Web's Grain (2015)

Beyond the Machine

DuckDB: Larger-Than-Memory Workloads

Darwin Core

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