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zefaker is a command-line tool for generating CSV, Excel, JSON and SQL files from a Groovy DSL

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2020-02-29 · latest 2025-06-26

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  1. This is well put. I once built a tool called [zefaker] (github.com/creditdatamw/zefaker) to test some data pipelines but never managed to get a good pattern or method for generating data that simulates actions or scenarios that didn't…
    comment by zikani_03 · 2025-06-26 · in Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator
  2. …losing fights against the Rust compiler/borrow-checker; eventually drove me to learn Go... [0]: https://github.com/creditdatamw/zefaker [1]: https://github.com/zikani03/groupby
    comment by zikani_03 · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
  3. …you can export as SQL (or CSV/Excel files). You may find a tool we built and use at work useful: https://github.com/creditdatamw/zefaker Needs a little Groovy but very convenient for generating random (or non-random) data.
    comment by zikani_03 · 2021-03-24 · in How to create a 1M record table with a single query
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    story by zikani_03 · 2020-02-29 · 0 comments