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I believe Andrew Kane is also a the author of pgvector[0], pgvector-ruby[1], and neighbor[2], all of which are pretty sweet! Plus a bunch of other stuff[3]. M

I believe Andrew Kane is also a the author of pgvector[0], pgvector-ruby[1], and neighbor[2], all of which are pretty sweet! Plus a bunch of other stuff[3]. Maybe he solved AI/ML by himself long ago and is using that to be this productive. [0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector [1] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby [2] https://github.com/ankane/neighbor https://github.com/ankane/neighbor [3] https://github.com/ankane/ https://github.com/ankane/

Lukas_Skywalker 2y ago
Also: - Chartkick, a charting library for Ruby - Ahoy, a Rails analytics library - Searchkick, a Rails search library There are over 370 repos in his Github profile...
- corytheboyd 2y ago
  FWIW it’s 199 source repos (excluding forks). Still insanely, wildly productive if even 25% of those are substantive projects!
- felipemesquita 2y ago
  And blazer[0], the closest thing to a perfect BI tool. It has a SQL editor/runner, saved queries, audit history, dashboards, alerts and user access control; all in a rails engine you can mount with minimal configuration. [0]https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer
  - petepete 2y ago
    Blazer is my favourite BI tool by a country mile. It does all I want with no fuss, is a breeze to set up and it's so much faster and more efficient than any of the other BI tools I've tried.
- andruby 2y ago
  PgHero is also from him I believe. Very helpful to identify slow queries in production, remove duplicate indexes, see missing indexes, keep an eye on table size, etc. https://github.com/ankane/pghero https://github.com/ankane/pghero
- swyx 2y ago
  what the heck? has anyone interviewed him? i'd love to learn more about how he works
rgrieselhuber 2y ago
One of the most prolific people that I am aware of.
mtkd 2y ago
For anyone using Ruby who doesn't know ankane already, there are some very useful tools in his github ... like /disco which is a super simple collaborative filtering implemention if you want to quickly drop some recommendation in somewhere If you are looking for anything ML related with Ruby ankane has usually had a look already ...
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philip1209 2y ago
We use so many tools from Andrew Kane in our production repo. His packages make it possible to build an AI application using Rails.
mooreds 2y ago
He's also done a ton outside the AI space: https://github.com/ankane/pretender https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app https://github.com/ankane/ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails https://github.com/ankane/field_test https://github.com/ankane/field_test is A/B testing This kind of stuff is why rails is so productive for a normal web app. Sure, there are better vendor and point solutions for each of these, but the ability to drop in a gem, do some configuration and have a 80% solution lets you ship so. damn. fast.
- mosselman 2y ago
  Ahoy, blazer and field_test form the basis of our very strong no-BS data infra. It is so simple. I still want to try and combine ahoy with a column store in postgres so that we can run the analytical queries straight onto postgres instead of syncing the events to BigQuery. I've tried using pg_analytics by Paradedb but they don't support json columns, which is necessary with ahoy. Performance wise that would be ideal though.
  - philippemnoel 2y ago
    ParadeDB founder here -- We migrated the pg_analytics project to its own repo and will be adding JSON support!

Lukas_Skywalker 2y ago

Also: - Chartkick, a charting library for Ruby - Ahoy, a Rails analytics library - Searchkick, a Rails search library There are over 370 repos in his Github profile...

corytheboyd 2y ago
FWIW it’s 199 source repos (excluding forks). Still insanely, wildly productive if even 25% of those are substantive projects!
felipemesquita 2y ago
And blazer[0], the closest thing to a perfect BI tool. It has a SQL editor/runner, saved queries, audit history, dashboards, alerts and user access control; all in a rails engine you can mount with minimal configuration. [0]https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer
- petepete 2y ago
  Blazer is my favourite BI tool by a country mile. It does all I want with no fuss, is a breeze to set up and it's so much faster and more efficient than any of the other BI tools I've tried.
andruby 2y ago
PgHero is also from him I believe. Very helpful to identify slow queries in production, remove duplicate indexes, see missing indexes, keep an eye on table size, etc. https://github.com/ankane/pghero https://github.com/ankane/pghero
swyx 2y ago
what the heck? has anyone interviewed him? i'd love to learn more about how he works

rgrieselhuber 2y ago

One of the most prolific people that I am aware of.

mtkd 2y ago

For anyone using Ruby who doesn't know ankane already, there are some very useful tools in his github ... like /disco which is a super simple collaborative filtering implemention if you want to quickly drop some recommendation in somewhere If you are looking for anything ML related with Ruby ankane has usually had a look already ...

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philip1209 2y ago

We use so many tools from Andrew Kane in our production repo. His packages make it possible to build an AI application using Rails.

mooreds 2y ago

He's also done a ton outside the AI space: https://github.com/ankane/pretender https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app https://github.com/ankane/ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails https://github.com/ankane/field_test https://github.com/ankane/field_test is A/B testing This kind of stuff is why rails is so productive for a normal web app. Sure, there are better vendor and point solutions for each of these, but the ability to drop in a gem, do some configuration and have a 80% solution lets you ship so. damn. fast.

mosselman 2y ago
Ahoy, blazer and field_test form the basis of our very strong no-BS data infra. It is so simple. I still want to try and combine ahoy with a column store in postgres so that we can run the analytical queries straight onto postgres instead of syncing the events to BigQuery. I've tried using pg_analytics by Paradedb but they don't support json columns, which is necessary with ahoy. Performance wise that would be ideal though.
- philippemnoel 2y ago
  ParadeDB founder here -- We migrated the pg_analytics project to its own repo and will be adding JSON support!