ClickHouse

I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 yearsWhat I learned operating ClickHouse at scale: the wins, the failures, and the lessons that only come from production experience.

Tinybird co-founder Javi Santana shares five years of operational experience running petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters, covering architecture decisions, the challenges of storage-compute separation, zero-copy replication trade-offs, and how the upgrade process evolved from a three-hour ordeal into a CI/CD-integrated routine.

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