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Re:I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years on Saturday September 12, 2026 @07:19AM (#49671188)
it's kind of an internal joke, ClickHouse Inc lawyers are a pain in the ass with their letters and every time you forget a (r) somewhere, they write.
Re: on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:39AM (#45679993)
Flink might sound like the holy grail of streaming data processing, but for 95% of us, it's just a complex headache we don't need.
Not going to disclose that but you can make a guess on % if you analyze the S3 write/read ops a ClickHouse server does with regular or compact parts in a simple table (with a few columns) writing once per second
Re:How to ingest 1B rows/s in ClickHouse on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:28AM (#44948518)
Thanks.

I re-used all scripts and didn't even notice the linux version.

I don't think is going to happen often, but definitely happens. We see that more than anyone would do because we run a lot of different workload types, any possible combination of types/sql/engines...

Running postgres in my previous company we saw a few of them as well and I'd consider postgres a "production grade" system.

Re:Modularizing SQL? (2007) on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:31AM (#23561032)
We found a way to organize large SQL decomposing them in smaller chunks and organize those chunks like in a "jupiter notebook" so you also see results for intermediate results, an example:

https://ui.tinybird.co/snapshot/7437e5efa1f944a0b7cc01775169...

Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:18AM (#23496873)
Dark mode is very useful for people with "eye problems", for example, eye floaters are small black points you see all the time, they usually appear with the age, dark mode make them "disapear" making you brain happier.

Thanks whoever started dark mode trend

Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

Re:Google: Introducing The Endangered Languages Project on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:43AM (#4146338)
thanks man, actually the complete site was made by vizzuality