Hacker News: dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangoldinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:41:33 +0000<![CDATA[Snowflake vs. Databricks Showdown]]>Article URL: https://select.dev/posts/snowflake-vs-databricks-showdown

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]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:39 +0000https://select.dev/posts/snowflake-vs-databricks-showdowndangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809536<![CDATA[New comment by dangoldin in "IBM to acquire Confluent"]]>I led the engineering team of a large adtech company (TripleLift - order of hundreds of billions of events/day) and we evolved from self hosting Kafka, to paying a vendor (Instacluster), to migrating to RedPanda.

RedPanda was a huge win for us. Confluent never made sense to us since we were always so cost conscious but the complexity/risk of managing a critical part of our infra was always something I worried about. RedPanda was able to handle both for us - cheaper than Kafka hosting vendors with significantly better performance. We were pretty early customers but was a huge win for us.

]]>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:40:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194417dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194417<![CDATA[New comment by dangoldin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]>Twing.AI | AI/Full-Stack Engineer & Forward Deployed Engineer | Remote (US-friendly timezones) or NYC | Full-time or Part-time

We’re a lean (4 people, 3 of which are engineers), bootstrapped team building a private-equity automation platform (deal analysis, document processing, chat, investment theme research). Shipping fast, learning daily, and looking for hands-on engineers who want outsized impact.

- Stack: React Router 7/React 19, shadcn/Tailwind v4, Node/TypeScript (strict), PostgreSQL + Prisma + pgvector, S3; AI workflows with embeddings & LLMs.

- Why join: small team with direct ownership of core product, zero bureaucracy, Greenfield decisions and ability to learn extremely quickly, you’ll ship to paying users weekly.

AI / Full-Stack Engineer

- Own features end-to-end: data ingestion → AI pipelines → UI. - Design and tune LLM/embedding flows; keep latency/cost in check. - Requirements: strong TypeScript/Node, modern React, SQL + data modeling; comfort evaluating/using AI models; bias to ship.

Forward Deployed Engineer

- Work directly with customers (PE analysts/partners) to turn messy workflows into productized features. - Rapidly prototype, measure impact, harden for production. - Requirements: full-stack chops, great product sense, calm under ambiguity, willing to jump between code, data, and customer calls.

Happy to also talk to the self-taught. We care more about ability than credentials and value slope over intercept.

How to apply: Email jobs@twing.ai with “HN – [Role]” in the subject, a short note on something you’ve shipped, and any links (GitHub/portfolio). No recruiters.

]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:20:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117858dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117858<![CDATA[New comment by dangoldin in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"]]>I worked at an adtech company where we invested a bit in HA across AZ + regions. Lo and behold there was an AWS outage and we stayed up. Too bad our customers didn't and we still took the revenue hit.

Lesson here is that your approach will depend on your industry and peers. Every market will have their won philosophy and requirements here.

]]>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:28:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644289dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644289https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644289<![CDATA[The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval]]>Article URL: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2508.21038v1

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]]>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:10:51 +0000https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2508.21038v1dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080035<![CDATA[New comment by dangoldin in "Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?"]]>I'd reach out to your former manager that you got along with and ask for their advice. Seems you had a good rapport and they know the company dynamics.

]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:02:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295120dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295120https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295120<![CDATA[Apache Iceberg in Modern Data Architectures: A Comprehensive Report]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/apache-iceberg-in-modern-data-architectures

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]]>Wed, 28 May 2025 19:17:48 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/apache-iceberg-in-modern-data-architecturesdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119667<![CDATA[Sizing Big Data Workloads: Key Numbers to Know]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/sizing-big-data-workloads-key-numbers

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]]>Wed, 21 May 2025 16:31:56 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/sizing-big-data-workloads-key-numbersdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053222<![CDATA[Handling Personal Data Deletion in AdTech Data Systems]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/handling-personal-data-deletion-in

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]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:49:33 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/handling-personal-data-deletion-indangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985962<![CDATA[Building for AWS Marketplace]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/building-for-aws-marketplace

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]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:53:58 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/building-for-aws-marketplacedangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849291<![CDATA[Building a Snowflake Native App]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/building-a-snowflake-native-app

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]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:28:15 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/building-a-snowflake-native-appdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645523https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645523<![CDATA[Make API Data Engineering Fun with DuckDB]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/make-api-data-engineering-fun-with

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]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:23:39 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/make-api-data-engineering-fun-withdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585373<![CDATA[Extracts, PDTs, and Embedded DBs: How BI Tools Shape Data Warehouse Economics]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/extracts-pdts-and-embedded-dbs-how

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]]>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:29:29 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/extracts-pdts-and-embedded-dbs-howdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486924https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486924<![CDATA[Data Warehouse Is a Hammer – But Not Everything Is a Nail]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/your-data-warehouse-is-a-hammer-but

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]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:14:46 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/your-data-warehouse-is-a-hammer-butdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417820https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417820<![CDATA[Warehouse Pricing: Snowflake]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/warehouse-pricing-snowflake-now-with

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]]>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:17:27 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/warehouse-pricing-snowflake-now-withdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362868https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362868<![CDATA[The three Snowflake queries big data doesn't want you to know about]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/the-three-snowflake-queries-big-data

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]]>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:18:29 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/the-three-snowflake-queries-big-datadangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283295<![CDATA[The Cost of BigQuery]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/the-real-cost-of-bigquery

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]]>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:17:21 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/the-real-cost-of-bigquerydangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187731https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187731<![CDATA[Redshift Serverless Pricing: A Comprehensive Overview]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/redshift-serverless-pricing

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]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:31:40 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/redshift-serverless-pricingdangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025756<![CDATA[Exploring Redshift's Approach to Query Hashing]]>Article URL: https://blog.twingdata.com/p/exploring-redshifts-approach-to-query

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]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:32:52 +0000https://blog.twingdata.com/p/exploring-redshifts-approach-to-querydangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934604<![CDATA[New comment by dangoldin in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"]]>I'm sure you've heard of SQLMesh but that seems like a potential fit. Or is it still too heavy handed?

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:02:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703809dangoldinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703809https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703809