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The ClickHouse Memory Win That Didn't Show Up On the Dashboard

A ClickHouse materialized view cutover dropped per-fire memory from 140 MiB to 7.4 MiB. The cluster's resident memory didn't move a byte. Here's the SQL pattern that made it work, and the more important lesson about which memory metric actually predicted our OOM exposure.

May 27, 2026 · 11 min read
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Migrating 1.3 Billion IoT Rows to ClickHouse Cloud

Dashboard timeouts during winter storms. 45-second queries when road crews need real-time data. We moved 1.3 billion IoT rows from SQL Server to ClickHouse Cloud—and cut query times from seconds to milliseconds while saving $2,200/month. Here's exactly how.

December 8, 2025 · 25 min read
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