Zeroth Commandment: Thou Shall Not Copy
Or at least not copy unnecessarily
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The Change Data Capture performance problem
Why "simple" change-streaming has a low performance ceiling
Jul 10, 20252 min read18Firebolt: Experience with the Fastest Data Warehouse
Working with Firebolt over the past few months has been nothing short of an adventure — one filled with optimism, head-scratching, performance highs, and some deep engineering sighs. It’s a platform with a lot of promise, backed by impressive speed b...
Jul 1, 20254 min read21Why Data Movement Speed Matters
At Wirekite, we optimized our implementations around an ethos of speed over some other software engineering goals. We don’t use off-the-shelf data formatting libraries or other tools that are commonly used by others in the data movement space, and we...
Jun 23, 20254 min read38Fast Targets, Slow Sources
Modern cloud data warehouses have revolutionized the analytics landscape with their impressive ingestion capabilities. Platforms like Snowflake, Firebolt, and Databricks proudly showcase their lightning-fast data loading tools—Snowpipe for continuous...
Jun 19, 20253 min read16Why Companies Don't Publish Benchmarks ?
I think we know :). Although, some do. Wirekite Benchmarks - https://benchmarks.wirekite.io/series/benchmarks-extract-and-load Firebolt Benchmark - https://www.firebolt.io/blog/introducing-firescale
Jun 14, 20251 min read15