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Joined November 2008
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Managed to spot the ClickHouse billboard at Shibuya Crossing last night! #SpottedClickHouse @clickhouse-jp #clickhouse-japan
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At Netflix, scale drives everything. Their logging system ingests 5 PB/day, averaging 10M events/sec across 40K microservices to serve 300M subscribers. See how they did it with some key optimizations in fingerprinting, serialization, and queries.
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15 Aug 2025
Real-time analytics just got easier. The fully managed @ClickHouseDB sink connector is now generally available on Confluent Cloud. It’s now simpler than ever to stream data from Apache Kafka® directly into ClickHouse. Read how it works -> cnfl.io/4oS6FvY
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20 Jul 2025
In the end, every byte goes ocean 🌊 ⁦@ClickHouseDB
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13 Mar 2025
CTO of @ClickHouseDB Alexey Milovidov, shows a mind blowing demo of air traffic telemetry indexed in ClickHouse. 150B records and immersive UI to explore it. This is only possible in ClickHouse. adsb.exposed ✈️
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New distributed systems protocol write-up! Virtual Consensus (Delos) heavily inspired the new architecture in Confluent’s Kora engine, powering Freight Clusters. This write-up dives into Virtual Consensus in Delos paper and why it makes sense as the default log replication protocol in the era of object storage and hybrid environments. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/202…
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Linear algebra operators implemented in #ClickHouse #SQL blog.hellmar-becker.de/2025/…
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See you on Oct 22!
10 Oct 2024
Attention @Druidio & @ApacheKafka enthusiasts in the Munich area! Our event, "Streamline Your Data w/ #Kafka & #Druid: Achieve Real-Time Insights" is Oct 22 w/ @Implydata's @Hellmar_Becker & @Reply_DE's Majid Azimi, hosted by Reply. Register for free: bit.ly/3XOTMWM
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1 Oct 2024
October 17, Zurich, Switzerland: Streaming Analytics Stack: @apachekafka & @Implydata / @druidio for Time-series data at @Swisscom, with Imply's @Hellmar_Becker: bit.ly/4gGC00n
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10 Jul 2024
TIL how to access secrets stored in 1Password from CLI scripts, e.g. to populate an environment variable using an API key stashed in my password manager til.simonwillison.net/macos/…
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13 Jun 2024
"Unlocking the Power of #IoT: A comprehensive approach to real-time insights featuring @Nestle," with @confluentinc, @awscloud, @Reply_UK / @Reply_DE, and @implydata @Hellmar_Becker bit.ly/4b3WpK5

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30 Apr 2024
"Let's Do Data Lineage in @apachekafka, @ApacheFlink and @Druidio!" June 10 at #bbuzz with @Hellmar_Becker: bit.ly/3xVJbA3
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29 Feb 2024
Meetup Alert! Join Hellmar Becker & Thomas Iffland in Frankfurt on Thursday, Mar 7th for an Apache Kafka® meetup hosted by @ThinkportGmbH! If you are in Frankfurt, this will be a meetup you won’t want to miss! meetup.com/frankfurt-apache-…
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