Olga Braginskaya articles - 40 total
AI Gave Us Lemons. We Picked Limoncello
Here's the thing. These days it's become genuinely hard to maintain professional motivation in...
Build in Public: Week 10. Making It Less Fragile
Build in public has a funny way of changing over time. In the beginning you write about ideas,...
Build in Public: Week 9. The Shape of Wykra
Build in public is an interesting experiment overall. You get new readers, some of them even stick...
Build in Public: Week 8. We Finally Deployed This Thing
Last week technically never happened. We didn’t skip a post, didn’t disappear into Christmas and New...
Build in Public: Week 7. Shipping While Tired (or: Still Alive, Surprisingly)
This week was quiet. Not because nothing is happening, but because after six weeks of pushing,...
Build in Public: Week 6. Trying to Add More Social Platforms
Last week was about observability. We added metrics and dashboards so we could see what the system...
Build in Public: Week 5. The Week We Finally Measured Things Instead of Just Hoping for the Best
Last week I ended with a dramatic cliffhanger: “We need metrics!” And then immediately regretted it,...
Build in Public: Week 4. The Messy Middle Of Building An AI Agent
This was supposed to be the week of a polished demo video and a clean “here’s how you use our API”...
Build in Public: Week 3. First Survive Discovery, Then Enjoy Analysis
Last week I noticed something annoying: the engagement on my Week 1 and Week 2 posts dropped, even...
Build in Public: Week 2. How Do People Even Find Influencers?
If you remember from the last update, we had our first real conflict: Node.js vs Python. Well,...
Build in Public: Week 1
The first week wasn’t particularly shiny. We mostly tried to move from our old n8n setup to a normal...
Build in Public: Day Zero
A few weeks ago we built an agent called WYKRA for the Real-Time AI Agents challenge powered by...
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...