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I'm 12. I ran a global Code Jam on a $150 phone. Here’s the Supabase architecture that held it together. 🐯

Two weeks ago, I had zero submissions for my coding festival. Yesterday, I crowned the first Champion of the KODA Code Jam, upgraded their database status, and launched a second Jam (Scribe Jam), all…

  • 12-year-old organized global Code Jam with 3,000+ developers
  • Utilized Supabase for user auth, RLS, and telemetry tracking
  • Added modelserved column to errorlogs for performance tracking

One Table, Many Engines: Running BigQuery, Spark, and Trino on a Single Iceberg Copy

If you work with data — or you're just getting started in the cloud — you've probably heard terms like Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Data Lakehouse.

  • Google Cloud Storage houses raw data and metadata files
  • Parquet format compresses data column-wise for efficient querying
  • Apache Iceberg adds ACID transactions, time travel, and schema evolution

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