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Technical writing on aviation data infrastructure, real-time systems, and the engineering decisions behind production-grade platforms.

Reconstructing Flights from Raw ADS-B

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Ondrej Grünwald
Founder / CEO

How SkyTrace turns raw ADS-B updates into a clean flights table using per-aircraft state, fallback takeoff and landing rules, gap handling, and idempotent reprocessing.

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Building an Aviation Data Platform: From Raw Telemetry to Lakehouse

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Ondrej Grünwald
Founder / CEO

How we built a dual-mode data platform for aviation: ADS-B, FlightAware, and weather ingest via Kafka and JetStream, MinIO-backed lakehouse with Iceberg and Trino, TimescaleDB hot path, and Airflow orchestration — running the same data layout on full cloud and lightweight edge deployments.

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SkyTrace: A Real-Time Aviation Telemetry Platform

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Author
Ondrej Grünwald
Founder / CEO

A technical account of how SkyTrace is built: ADS-B ingest, Kafka and JetStream streaming, hot-path querying, lakehouse storage, and the WebGL map that turns it into an operational surface.

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