The publication
A newsletter on data engineering, storage, databases, observability, and research.
What this is
Byte2MB is a data newsletter by Priyansh Nigam. It covers data engineering, storage, databases, observability, and the research underneath production systems. The name is the job: turning a byte count into a number you can put in a review, a bill, or a retention setting.
What it covers
- Data engineering and the pipelines that move it
- Storage formats, retention, and what a gigabyte actually costs
- Databases, from the index to the bill
- Observability: logs, traces, and what is worth keeping
- Research notes with the measurements attached
The tools
The reference section is a set of calculators for the questions that interrupt real work: byte to MB, KB to MB, MB to GB, transfer time, log storage cost, and a file size formatter. They run in the browser. Nothing you type is uploaded. Browse them on the tools page.
Who writes it
Priyansh Nigam writes Byte2MB from Berlin. New essays are published from the WordPress editor. A short note also goes out on LinkedIn.