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Why we built Sery

OS-level file search knows filenames. Your files contain columns. Sery Link is the file manager that indexes both — plus the content of your documents — so you stop opening five CSVs to find the right one.

panghe··6 min read
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/preview-parquet-on-s3-without-downloading
Engineering

How to preview a Parquet file on S3 without downloading it

You don't have to pull the whole 1.4GB Parquet from S3 to see its schema. The Parquet footer is at the end of the file; HTTP range requests fetch it in milliseconds. Here's the technique, two ways to use it (Python, Sery Link), and the failure modes nobody tells you about.

panghe··7 min
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/why-incumbents-cant-ship-our-wedge
Strategy

Why incumbents structurally can't ship Sery's wedge

Reviewers keep asking why we don't worry about cloud-AI incumbents. Here's the honest answer: single-vendor cross-document search and cloud-bound AI tools are different categories from a cross-vendor universal data gateway. The biggest platforms can't ship our shape without abandoning their lock-in business model.

panghe··5 min