Prithwish Nath

How Failing at Fantasy Baseball Made Me Fix My Cron Jobs with Temporal

Why cron jobs break under real-world conditions and how to actually fix retries, failures, and data reliability.

I Built a $0 Search Engine on Real Web Data (No Algolia or Elasticsearch)

I got tired of grepping through JSON. So I built a local search index over live Google data using Python, Typesense, and Bright Data.

Why You Should Add Observability to Your Data Extraction with OpenTelemetry

Adding OpenTelemetry and Jaeger to expose hidden retries, latency, and silent failures in production.

How To Validate Any API Response with Great Expectations (GX)

Learn how to validate API responses in Python with Great Expectations (GX Core), quarantine bad batches, and store only clean results in DuckDB

5 Modern React Libraries That Solve Real Problems (2026)

Drop-in LLM agents, build complex forms with JSON, self-host your auth, render charts server-side, and more. 5 modern React tools with quick implementation guides.

Building a Local Data Analytics Pipeline with dbt Core and DuckDB

Guide for a fully local, infrastructure-free pipeline that takes messy SERP data and turns it into tables you can actually trust in analytics.

The Practical Limits of DuckDB on Commodity Hardware

Finding the UX ceiling of local analytics on low-end hardware with a 50M row benchmark.

How to Build a Bun CLI That Turns API Docs Pages Into TypeScript Clients

No OpenAPI schema? No problem. Here’s how to generate a type-safe API client from just the docs page using Bun and a local LLM.

I Built a Self-Hosted Google Trends Alternative with DuckDB

Track SERP rankings, title changes, and competitor data Google Trends won’t show. Built with Python, DuckDB, and a CLI-first approach.

Turning Google Search into a Kafka Event Stream for Many Consumers

An event-driven approach to monitoring SERP changes — tracking features, entries, and exits instead of noisy rank movements.