<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>data on Saurabh Kumar</title><link>https://saurabh-kumar.com/tags/data/</link><description>Recent content in data on Saurabh Kumar</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>Copyright © 2025, Saurabh Kumar.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://saurabh-kumar.com/tags/data/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>slingdata-io/sling-cli</title><link>https://saurabh-kumar.com/til/1771502400/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://saurabh-kumar.com/til/1771502400/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/slingdata-io/sling-cli" rel="noopener external"&gt;slingdata-io/sling-cli&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;</description></item><item><title>Vortex</title><link>https://saurabh-kumar.com/til/1770292801/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://saurabh-kumar.com/til/1770292801/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://vortex.dev/" rel="noopener external"&gt;Vortex&lt;/a&gt; a newer format is supported by &lt;a href="https://duckdb.org/2026/01/23/duckdb-vortex-extension" rel="noopener external"&gt;duckdb&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;</description></item></channel></rss>