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brady_bastian

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About brady_bastian

I am the founder of Foxtrot Communications Corporation, a focused research institution

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    Show HN: Open-Source FHIR –> OMOP Pipeline

    Parsing FHIR data and converting that to OMOP standard is a notoriously difficult problem. I think we've cracked it. I've open sourced two GitHub repos: 1. Forge-Core. This is the …

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    how does this compare to something like google secrets manager?

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    the price of shitty software is

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    Show HN: Forge-Core released on GitHub, Parse JSON in your data warehouse

    Automatically decompose nested JSON in your data warehouse into normalized dbt models. Forge Core is a deterministic BFS engine that reads a single JSON column (or multi-column tab…

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    Show HN: Avalon - Synthetic FHIR R4 patient data as OMOP CDM 5.4 views

    Avalon Synthetic clinical data pipeline — generate realistic FHIR R4 patient data, normalize it through Forge, and query it as OMOP CDM 5.4 views. What is Avalon? Avalon is an end-…

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    Show HN: Synthea Fhir Data in BigQuery

    We generated ~1,100 synthetic patients with Synthea, processed the FHIR R4 output through our normalization engine (Forge), and published it as a free public dataset on BigQuery An…

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    Show HN: Forge, the NoSQL to SQL Compiler

    https://forge.foxtrotcommunications.net/ I've been a data engineer for years and one thing drove me crazy: every time we integrated a new API, someone had to manually write SQL to …

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    Completely automating the difficult problem of json parsing and normalization in cloud data warehouses. https://forge.foxtrotcommunications.net/ Today engineers spend dozens of hou…

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    Forge – Automate 3NF Schema Generation from Nested JSON in BigQuery/Snowflake

    I've built a product that completely parses highly nested JSON data in cloud data warehouses. Forge works by methodically dissecting each subcollection and each field of Json data,…

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    Hi HN, I’m Brady. I’ve spent years watching data engineers burn out writing brittle parsers for nested JSON, only to have dashboards crash because an upstream API changed a field n…

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