ClickHouse has been both exciting and incredibly challenging based on my experience migrating and scaling from Iceberg to ClickHouse, zero to a large cluster of trillions of rows. I have had to deal with many of use cases and resolve issues. I have been trying to take notes every day for myself, although it takes time to publish them as a series of blog posts. I hope I can do so on this ClickHouse on Kubernetes series.

Recently, I was working on building a new Logs dashboard at Fossil to serve our internal team for log retrieval, and I found ClickHouse to be a very interesting and fast engine for this purpose. In this post, I'll share my experience with using ClickHouse as the foundation of a light-weight data platform and how it compares to another popular choice, Athena. We'll also explore how ClickHouse can be integrated with other tools such as Kafka to create a robust and efficient data pipeline.

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