dozer VS excalidraw

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Hi HN,

I'm Matteo and co-founder of Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), a backend tool for building data products. Over the past few months we have done good progress with the product development but our documentation needs a lot of work. Myself, my co-founder and the entire team are juggling among many activities, and one of them is producing good documentation, and that is the part where we are bit struggling.

We have tried to hire a couple of tech writers but it's really not working out as we wanted. Our product is a dev product, and it is very hard to find tech writers who have that depth to think what a developer need. At the same time, asking the dev team to write documentation produces low quality docs (obviously devs prefer to write code and they just to go back to that as fast they can).

The result is that I end up writing most of documentation or refactoring the entire content produced by tech writer. But this approach will not scale.

How do you guys solved it? I'm curios to know about the approach of other startups.

Thanks

This blog post explores how to enhance these aspects by implementing a low-latency cache using Dozer and PostgreSQL. We delve into the importance of caching in data management, the limitations of not having a cache, and the unique advantages of using Dozer as a cache layer. We also provide a guide on how to use Dozer for real-time data ingestion from PostgreSQL. This post is a must-read for developers seeking to improve their application's performance and responsiveness, and for those looking to simplify their data infrastructure.

I recently penned a blog post on an interesting topic - leveraging Dozer with PostgreSQL to create a high-speed, low-latency cache. In case you're not familiar with Dozer, it's an open-source data API backend built entirely in Rust, known for its fast processing and lower resource usage.

some time ago I shared about our OSS project Dozer with the group. We just did a presentation and demo at the Python Meetup group here in Singapore and just wanted to share the full video here.

Hey HN,

As one of the co-founders of Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), I stumbled upon this awesome article from the Temporal folks (https://temporal.io/blog/saga-pattern-made-easy) and got super excited about the potential synergy between Dozer and Temporal.

While Temporal nails the orchestration of microservices, I couldn't help but notice the challenge of consolidating data across services. In the article, they talk about three services: flight booking, hotel booking, and experience booking. But imagine trying to create a complete trip view by stitching together data from all three services - it can be quite a headache!

And that's where Dozer swoops in to save the day. With Dozer, I can tap into all the change data capture (CDC) events from each microservice, merge the data in real-time, stash it in a cache, and make it available through APIs. The best part? Since Dozer operates in real-time, my cached data is always fresh. Boom! Now I can simply leverage Dozer's APIs to access a comprehensive trip view.

Raise your hand if you've faced this challenge before! Let's hear your thoughts.

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You can consider using Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), an open-source data API backend. Dozer has a PostgreSQL connector that you can use to monitor any changes in your database schema and data. Although Dozer is not specifically designed for ETL tasks, you can still use it for this purpose by using Lambda functions. Dozer provides a Lambda runtime to execute user-defined functions. So you can use PostgreSQL connector ( to capture CDC) with Lambda runtime to load data to snowflake.

Enter Dozer, it simplifies the process of creating low-latency data APIs (gRPC and REST) from any data source easily with OpenAPI specification. Dozer is a real-time data engineering tool built with Rust, which enables seamless integration of data streams(sources), efficient data processing, and lightning-fast response times. This allows developers to focus on building applications without worrying about the complexity of managing real-time data.

ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/

ExcaliDraw

However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.

Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...

I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!"

I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.

Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:

https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.

https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.

Sketch easy and go back to work...

https://excalidraw.com/