Olga Braginskaya articles - 28 total
Guess My Drawing: Can Gemini Read Your Mind in One Line?
This is a submission for the Google AI Studio Multimodal Challenge What I Built I built a...
WYKRA: Web You Know, Real-time Analysis
This is a submission for the AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data What We...
Three Formats Walk into a Lakehouse: Iceberg, Delta and Hudi in a Local Setup You Can Run on Your Laptop
I still remember building an entire bookkeeping system in FoxPro for my university coursework back in...
How do you stay sane with the non-stop tech hype (LLMs, anyone?)
Every day it feels like there’s a new tool, a new framework or a new AI model that’s going to “change...
🥔 Reputato: Not Every Company Is Golden. We Sniff Out the Ones That Are.
This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon What I Built Most of us...
When Small Parquet Files Become a Big Problem (and How I Ended Up Writing a Compactor in PyArrow)
It all began with a fairly normal data pipeline. Events were coming in through Kafka, landing in AWS...
You’re Not the First. You Won’t Be the Last. But We Survive
This is a submission for the WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience I didn’t grow up dreaming of...
Who Wins Dev.to Challenges? (And The Hidden Benefits No One Talks About)
At the beginning of this year I made a decision - I was going to participate in every Dev.to...
Scaling Data Analytics: Building a Starter Kit with Neon, Airflow, and Streamlit
Setting up a data analytics project from scratch can be a headache. You need a database, a way to...
BlogAI: Read or Skip? Powered by Agent.ai
This is a submission for the Agent.ai Challenge: Productivity-Pro Agent (See Details) What...
BlogAI: Read or Skip? Built with Agent.ai
This is a submission for the Agent.ai Challenge: Full-Stack Agent (See Details) What I...
Handling Dates in Argo Workflows
Working with dates in Argo Workflows can range from simple to unexpectedly challenging depending on...
NameWiz: Building a Creative Name Generator with GitHub Copilot
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot Challenge : New Beginnings What I Built Meet...
Logs Don’t Lie: Debugging My Data Engineering Crisis in 2025
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025. Every data pipeline...
Goodbye Netlify, Hello Ghost: My Blog's New Home
In October 2021, I published my first blog post on Medium: Pub/Sub to BigQuery: How to Build a Data...
How Do You Organize Your Blogging Workflow? 🤔
I’ve been blogging for a while on platforms like this one and Medium, but I’m starting to think about...
Who’s Really Following You on Dev.to? A Guide to Analyzing Your Audience
The reason I’m writing this post is to shed some light on an aspect of Dev.to that many of us don’t...
12 Steps to Organize and Maintain Your Python Codebase for Beginners
The reason why I’m writing this post is to share some insights on keeping a project clean, even with...
Data Analytics Dashboard Starter Kit with Neon, Streamlit, and Airflow
This is a submission for the Neon Open Source Starter Kit Challenge : Ultimate Starter Kit ...
Binary Tree
This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer. ...
My Journey Learning AI for Songwriting: LSTMs and Taylor Swift
I spent last 4 months learning with the Machine Learning Zoomcamp. When it was time for the final...
The Data Engineering Docker-Compose Starter Kit
We’ve all been there. Starting a new data engineering project and, instead of diving right into the...
The Golang Saga: A Coder’s Journey There and Back Again. Part 3: The Graphing Conundrum
Welcome back to the third part of “The Golang Saga: A Coder’s Journey There and Back Again.” In the...
The Golang Saga: A Coder’s Journey There and Back Again. Part 2: The Data Expedition
Welcome back to the second part of “The Golang Saga: A Coder’s Journey There and Back Again.” In the...
The Golang Saga: A Coder’s Journey There and Back Again. Part 1: Leaving the Shire
The idea of learning Golang has been circulating in my head for quite some time. However, like many...
Unleash Your Pipeline Creativity: Local Development with Argo Workflows and MinIO on Minikube
As a data engineer, you know the joy of wrangling massive datasets and navigating complex data...
From Kafka to Amazon S3: Partitioning Outputs
So you’ve got a ton of data that needs to be processed in real-time, huh? Don’t worry, in this...
How we mastered dbt: A true story
Staying sane in the modern world of data engineering is a non-trivial mission. As data engineers we...