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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 26

LLMs don’t fail because they’re not smart.
They fail because they don’t know your schema.

In this session, we'll show you how Firebolt’s MCP server connects your database #schema to Claude - so your #AI can generate context-aware queries that work.

Register: www.firebolt.io/events/demo-...

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚀 We’re excited to announce we’ve opened a new hub in Singapore - and welcomed Deepak Ajmani as Head of Asia & ANZ.

👉 Read the announcement: en.prnasia.com/releases/apa...

#dataengineering #AI #APAC

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 19

New in Firebolt: Automatic Cache Warmup 🌡️

Starting up or scaling out usually means cold caches and slower #queries until they fill.

With AUTO_WARMUP, Firebolt engines restore their #cache state on startup, so performance ramps up much faster.

✍️Learn how: www.firebolt.io/blog/automat...

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 18

Beers + bots = the best kind of meetup 🍻🤖

At AICamp London, Demian Hespe talked about how to build data systems for interactive agents - and how Firebolt powers them with low-latency queries.

▶️ Watch Demian’s session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtaO...

#dataengineering #AI #datainfra

AI Meetup (London): Data Systems for AI Agents

YouTube video by AICamp

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 14

▶️ Missed the live #webinar? Now on-demand: 10ms Queries on Iceberg

Benjamin Wagner breaks down how to run low-latency, high-concurrency #analytics directly on open table formats like #Iceberg.

🎥 Watch it here: www.firebolt.io/knowledge-ce...

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 13

This time on the Data Engineering Show: Paarth Chothani from Uber shares how they're innovating on-call support with AI 🤖

Tune in: www.firebolt.io/blog/buildin...
Spotify: bit.ly/4nZd6wE

#AI #dataengineering #podcast

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why pay just to run metadata queries?

Our system engine is always-on & always-free:

✅Run show tables, describe, and other metadata #queries
✅Access system views and #databases, tables, views, locations
✅Skip the delay and cost of starting a primary engine

More: docs.firebolt.io/guides/opera...

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 6

💻 We just shipped a version of our Web UI which works directly with Firebolt Core - our free forever, self-hosted, distributed query engine.

Just like Firebolt Core itself, the Web UI can be run as a #Docker container.

Details here: github.com/firebolt-db/...

#dataengineer #analytics #database

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're happy to announce the #opensource release of Firebolt Auror - our #Kubernetes Admission Controller.

Read more: bit.ly/4oki2fR
Get the source code: github.com/firebolt-db/...

#dataengineering #analytics

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 31

Firebolt automatically removes redundant JOINs from queries (even when other query engines struggle)

It's common for apps generating SQL to produce complex #SQL queries with lots of JOINs. Firebolt can see through them and eliminate redundant ones, even in complex cases.

Learn more: bit.ly/45sZJxr

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can you really get 10ms queries on Apache #Iceberg?
Yes - and we’ll show you how.

Join Benjamin Wagner as he explains how you can build low-latency, high-concurrency #analytics directly on open table formats like Iceberg.

📅 Aug 6, 11 AM PT
🔗 Save your seat: bit.ly/4mjSAFd

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tired of fake free? So are we.

Get our production-grade, distributed query engine - without the games.

Free forever here: bit.ly/4kqR1nJ

#dataengineering #datainfra #selfmanaged

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 24

Performance benchmarks don’t lie.

We ran 25 real-world queries across Firebolt, Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery.

Firebolt’s smallest engine outperformed every config tested - even Snowflake XL.

▶️Watch: bit.ly/4532RyN
📝Read: bit.ly/3IE5VtP

#dataengineering #benchmarks #cloudatawarehouse

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚀 From 2 million to 100 million users in just a few years

How did Notion scale their data stack to handle this explosive growth? Sumit Gupta, Lead BI Engineer at Notion, breaks it down.

Tune in: bit.ly/4527Xv0
Spotify: bit.ly/45is6z0

#datascaling #moderndatastack #analytics

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 22

New to Firebolt? Start here 🚩

Introducing Firebolt Workshops - a new hands-on video series to help you learn Firebolt fast.

Get started with “What is Firebolt," a quick intro to Firebolt’s #architecture and how it supports low-latency #analytics at scale.

🎥 bit.ly/4o1nHHj

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 16

#Postgres, #S3, #Iceberg... and stream processing?

In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, Yingjun Wu, founder and CEO of RisingWave unpacks the architecture behind their SQL-native streaming system.

Tune in: bit.ly/46MRe1k
Spotify: bit.ly/44rnshC

The Future of Data Processing: PostgreSQL Evolution with YingJun Wu of Rising Wave

Explore cutting-edge PostgreSQL innovations, distributed database architecture, and cloud-native data processing solutions with YingJun Wu of Rising Wave.

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 15

This one’s for the “just let me build” crowd.

We’ve been expanding our client #ecosystem to make life easier for #developers who want to get things done—without glue code.

The focus is on clear #SDKs, solid #connectors, and #integrations that behave the way you’d expect.

✍️Read: bit.ly/3UcgF4V

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 14

*This isn’t a product demo*
It’s your cheat code for what’s coming next, and what to do about it now.

Tomorrow, join our talk with #AWS about how #AI is reshaping data infrastructure, and what engineering leaders are doing to stay fast, scalable, and cost-aware.

🗓️ Save your seat → bit.ly/3UaaSwJ

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fast just got free. Here are 5 things you can do with Firebolt Core.

1. Run millisecond queries at scale
2. Power dashboards/data apps at high concurrency
3. Query Iceberg tables from object storage
4. Build and test analytics workflows locally
5. Scale out across multiple nodes

bit.ly/4kqR1nJ

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 3

Upgrades shouldn’t mean downtime.

We handle upgrades by spinning up a shadow cluster with the new version, mirroring real read traffic, and warming caches in parallel.

Full breakdown: bit.ly/4lbubBH

#dataengineering #reliability

Live Engine Upgrades, Zero Downtime: The Firebolt Method

Discover how Firebolt delivers seamless, no-downtime upgrades using shadow clusters and real-time performance verification to ensure peak reliability.

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Jul 1

*This time on The Data Engineering Show*

DuckDB Labs CEO Hannes Mühleisen explores what happens when you don’t optimize for distributed compute—and instead focus on elegance, simplicity, and local analytical power.

Tune in: bit.ly/4l9EDKb
Spotify: spoti.fi/41C0wJx

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Apr 10

🔥 Curious how Firebolt stacks up in real-world workloads? We’re breaking down the results from our new FireScale benchmark, where we proved 8x better price-performance over Snowflake, 18x over Redshift, 90x over BigQuery

Watch the upcoming Ravit Show 👉 www.linkedin.com/events/73139...

Introducing Firescale -- New Benchmark from Firebolt | LinkedIn

New episode of The Ravit Show drops soon — featuring a deep dive into Firebolt’s newly launched benchmark: FireScale. I sat down with Igor Stanko (Chief Product Officer) and Cole Bowden (Developer Ad...

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Apr 2

Firebolt just launched FireScale - our real benchmark that demonstrates performance on real queries and eavhily concurrent workloads. We showed that Firebolt runs better than the competition... but how'd we do it?

Cole Bowden wrote a blog exploring exactly that: www.firebolt.io/blog/firesca...

Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Mar 19

Watch Dev Advocate Cole Bowden explain how compute families work in Firebolt, and which compute family may be right for you: youtu.be/uu1cE83mhTA

Compute families in Firebolt

YouTube video by Firebolt

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Firebolt @firebolthq.bsky.social · Mar 13

AI applications demand more than traditional data platforms. Learn how Firebolt is powering next-gen workloads at #FireboltForward

🔗 Register Now: www.brighttalk.com/webcast/2075...

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