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Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.
I’m Dominick Ryan. As a Senior Systems and Data Engineer, I build reliable data transformations and cloud-native infrastructure. NextValData is my curated repository of academic and technical documentation—a personal archive shared in the hope that it helps others, while being just self-serving enough.
Latest Posts
A look into the costs, convenience, and lock-in of Microsoft's named instances.
A look into Google's CQRS, Merkle Tree Certificates, and the future of web security in a post-quantum world.
In my previous post, I detailed the 'how' of unpivoting 21 million rows of genomic data using DuckDB. Since then, the project has matured significantly. I’ve implemented Dagster for orchestration and moved the compute to a Spark-on-Delta Lakehouse architecture.