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I do things with databases and play with dogs. https://alasdairb.com

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Self-Service Analytics Failed. Can Agentic AI Finally Succeed? By solving core issues of access, usability and context, AI is changing the way we interact with data. The future isn't dashboards; it's conversations.

By solving core issues of access, usability and context, AI is changing the way we interact with data. The future isn't dashboards; it's conversations.

25.11.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 14th birthday to my best lil boy β™₯️

11.11.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lmk what direction you go! I think I'm gonna plonk it on Cloudflare for now

01.10.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Guess I'm moving my projects off vercel; is @netlify.com the best bet? Haven't used it in a while. Maybe just Cloudflare?

30.09.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Build ClickHouse-powered APIs with React and MooseStack This is a practical guide of how to build a ClickHouse-powered API in your web app that will be familiar to anyone who’s worked with Postgres.

Built analytics on Postgres? You know what happens next: works great initially, then queries slow down as you scale.

clickhou.se/3IpjLQQ

Add ClickHouse speed without a rewrite:
- Keep Postgres as source of truth
- CDC to ClickHouse
- TypeScript APIs with MooseStack
- Auto-generated React clients

16.09.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled πŸ“’

#ClickHouse is doubling down on #observability with the release of #ClickStack

Check out my fireside chat with @mikeshi42.bsky.social, Head of observability
@clickhouse.com, co-founder @hyperdx.bsky.social :
πŸ‘‰ horovits.medium.com/clickstack-c...

01.09.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

An ORM for ClickHouse? Let's look at the open-source, MIT-licensed project Moose OLAP from fiveonefour. Inspired by the likes of SQLAlchemy, Drizzle and Prisma, it adapts the ORM experience to work on analytical databases like ClickHouse.

clickhou.se/3JkY30l

15.08.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The UK's new age verification law for "adult content" is an identity fraud timb bomb. The most idiotic, tech-illiterate law passed in some time.

Do not verify using your ID.
Use a VPN.

26.07.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scaling our Observability platform beyond 100 Petabytes by embracing wide events and replacing OTel Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting…

Last year, we shared how we saved millions by moving off Datadog and onto ClickHouse.

dub.sh/N5xB22L

Since then, things have scaled… a lot.
πŸš€ From 19PB β†’ 100PB of uncompressed logs
πŸ“ˆ 40 trillion β†’ 500 trillion rows
πŸ’₯ 20Γ— more throughput, using 90% less CPU

20.06.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

well I've been through Schiphol before if that counts πŸ˜‚ Is it even more mad that I've never been to Ireland either? 🫣 I'm back in Amsterdam in October for a proper visit!

07.06.2025 11:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well that's a month in Tokyo at an end. Currently on the way to the Hook of Holland to catch the ferry home - first time in NL and I'm in awe of these greenhouses! Bonkers

07.06.2025 10:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

but what if the grass is wet

02.06.2025 00:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And that's not necessarily a bad thing, I sympathise with a lot of the thinking here, but it's funny to see things how things go back and forward to make progress

27.05.2025 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format DuckLake simplifies lakehouses by using a standard SQL database for all metadata, instead of complex file-based systems, while still storing data in open formats like Parquet. This makes it more relia...

we're literally just back at Hive now

duckdb.org/2025/05/27/d...

27.05.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Angie has been discharged from the hospital πŸ₯°πŸ₯° He didn't enjoy his time in recovery, too scared to eat so we'd visit and hand feed him each day, but now he's home devouring food and snoring like a train β™₯️

26.05.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We got to visit Angie in recovery today; he's still in his oxygen crate, but he's awake and alert. Wagged his tail and scratched his beans to demand we release him. He's off all heart meds β™₯️πŸ₯°

20.05.2025 03:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He made it through surgery πŸ₯°β™₯️ They just finished sewing him up, everything was routine. First hurdle down πŸ₯ΊπŸ₯Ί

19.05.2025 02:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pre-op bloods done, he's getting in some last minute window time

18.05.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We made it all the way to Tokyo, and it's now 2 hours until this boy has heart surgery β™₯️

18.05.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ClickHouse Cloud Live Update - April 2025
ClickHouse Cloud Live Update - April 2025 YouTube video by ClickHouse

We are live with the:

"LogHouse, Observability for ClickHouse Cloud"

call. Feel free to join us live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piP...

17.04.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We did a little spring photoshoot at the weekend

15.04.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Arroyo is joining Cloudflare Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-sour...

Arroyo is joining @cloudflare.social! We're bringing Arroyo to the Developer Platform as a serverless stream processing system, and will also remain open-source and self-hostable. www.arroyo.dev/blog/arroyo-...

10.04.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.

this is gonna be pretty interesting
blog.cloudflare.com/r2-data-cata...

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We celebrate 40k+ stars on GitHub with some of the features that have driven those stars.

We enjoy it when big numbers get bigger and query times get smaller. Thanks to our community and contributors!

09.04.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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new gig, new gear βœ…

09.04.2025 18:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re hiring a Head of Product! This is the perfect role for a creative, strategic, and experienced product leader who wants to help shape the future of social.

Apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

01.04.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 3297 πŸ” 795 πŸ’¬ 135 πŸ“Œ 70

im mad

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nice

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a man with a lanyard around his neck says take it back . ALT: a man with a lanyard around his neck says take it back .

Outrageous!!

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