Saurabh Kumar

#data

Data formats, pipelines, ETL, sync

TIL notes

  • Feb 19, 2026

    slingdata-io/sling-cli is a promising tool move/sync data between databases and files, esp. helpful for local testing, ci/cd while able to do stage/sql based transformations.

  • Feb 5, 2026

    Vortex a newer format is supported by duckdb promises to be faster for random access and has zero-copy metadata, with better compression. While the support across the board is limited but worth considering for LLM/RAG based uses over parquet.