What is direct I/O, and why does ClickHouse Managed Postgres use it for backups?
ClickHouse Managed Postgres uses direct I/O and stripe-sized reads to keep backups fast while protecting the page cache and query latency.
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LinkedIn expanded its ClickHouse observability stack from distributed tracing to metric discovery and analytics, consolidating 13B+ metrics into one index serving 150k+ queries per minute.
Introducing SCIM Provisioning in ClickHouse Cloud
ClickHouse Cloud now supports SCIM 2.0, so your identity provider can create, update, and deprovision organization members and sync group membership to ClickHouse roles automatically.
pg_clickhouse & chdb updates: Encoding, nesting, and types
The latest pg_clickhouse and chdb extension releases improve character encoding, interval handling, nested data, JSON, and type mappings between ClickHouse and Postgres.
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Designing Neki for performance
How Neki only decodes the parts of a PostgreSQL result the router actually needs.