Case Study: Reducing Data Ingestion Latency by 96.4% (24.5x Speedup)

<blockquote> <p>The pager went off at 2:14 AM.</p> </blockquote> <p>If you’ve spent any time operating distributed systems, you know that sound. It doesn’t just wake you up; it

<p>PostgreSQL → DuckDB → SQL Engine → Parquet →And beyond ....</p> <p><strong>A Local-First Analytics Pipeline</strong></p> <p>Data teams often spend more time operating

<p>I recently went down a rabbit hole connecting OS internals with real-world low-latency systems.</p> <p>While learning about process management in operating systems, I kept

<p>Ever wonder how tools like Kafka, Nginx, Netty manage to saturate a 10Gbps network link while barely breaking a sweat on CPU usage?</p> <p>It’s not just efficient indexing.