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Introduction
Answers ready before you ask: one small language keeps counts, percentiles, candles, invoices and log dashboards current in a SQLite file as the data arrives. …
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How It Works
The idea. Decide the questions first. Keep their answers current as each event arrives, in one SQLite file, and let raw detail fade on a schedule while unusual events …
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The Policy Language
A policy is a short text file. It names the streams of events you have and the answers to keep ready, and says how long each level of detail survives. The compiler turns …
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Precomputing Now Takes OpenTelemetry and Lets a Running File Change Its Policy
Precomputing 0.3 is out. It closes the four gaps that stood between it and a real deployment. Applications and OpenTelemetry Collectors can send logs and metrics straight …
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Precomputing 0.1.1 Alpha Is Now Open Source Under the Apache License 2.0
Everything behind this site’s eight live demos is now on GitHub, under the Apache License 2.0. Version 0.1.1-alpha is the first public release, and it comes with …
case studies
Agent Traces Case Study: A Day of Coding-Agent Calls Kept 14 Times Smaller and Rebuilt Byte for Byte
A coding agent works by calling a model again and again, and every call sends the whole conversation so far: the system prompt, the tool list, the task, everything the …
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Incident Déjà Vu Case Study: Every Returning Incident Named Within Ten Seconds
When a service starts failing at night, the person on call wants to know one thing first: has this happened before, and what fixed it? The answer usually exists …
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MCP Case Study: An AI Agent Gets Its Answers in a Few Hundred Tokens Each
An AI agent that needs a number from operational data usually gets it by reading the data: rows from a database through a SQL tool, lines from a log search, an export. …
live data
Wikipedia Live: Every Change to Every Wiki, Counted in the Browser
Wikipedia never stops changing. Every edit, new page, log entry and category change on every Wikipedia, and on Wikidata, Commons and the other Wikimedia wikis, goes out …
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API Latency Case Study: A Million Requests Kept as Ready Answers Inside SQLite
A small web service that already keeps its data in SQLite wants the usual answers about its API: how many requests each endpoint gets, how long they take on average, and …