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Explore technical tips and topics from Firebolt experts and the community.

January 30, 2026

Technical Deep Dive: Efficient and ACID Compliant Vector Search Indexes in Firebolt

This deep dive explores how Firebolt implements native vector search indexing

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January 6, 2026

Unlocking Faster Iceberg Queries: The Writer Optimizations You're Missing

Your Apache Iceberg tables are slow because of how your data was written into them.

December 19, 2025

Eliminating the OLTP vs OLAP Trade-off

MerchJar transformed query times from "couple of minutes" to sub-second on their Amazon ads optimization platform.

December 11, 2025

"Where Do I Put My Logs?" A Conversation with TLDCRM's CEO on Solving the Impossible

A conversation with TLDCRM how they built a customer facing API observability solution at scale.

Sergio Ferragut

December 9, 2025

Late Materialization: How Firebolt Makes Top-K Queries 30x Faster

Continuing the focus on doing less to maximise performance.

October 29, 2025

Pruning even more data with late materialization

Learn how Late Materialization speeds up top-K queries by delaying column scans.

Maximilian Rieger

October 16, 2025

FuzzBerg: Hunting Bugs in Iceberg and file-format readers

Firebolt open-sources FuzzBerg to accelerate security testing of Iceberg and other file based readers.

October 14, 2025

Unlock Real-Time Analytics: Connecting Firebolt to Tableau Cloud

Real-Time Data analytics powering real time dashboards that deliver real insights

October 12, 2025

Firebolt Connector for Confluent : Real-Time Applications, Powered by Streaming Data

Firebolt Connector for Confluent now validated, enabling Real-Time applications, powered by streaming data.

October 10, 2025

Firebolt ARM Rollout

Performance out of the box, means always ensuring you are running on the most performant hardware

October 1, 2025

Implementing Explicit Multi-Statement Transactions in a Stateless, Cloud-Native Architecture

A deep dive into the architectural decisions that enable this feature, with focus on Firebolt's metadata layer.

September 15, 2025

Implementing Firebolt MERGE Statement

Technical deep dive on the powerful MERGE SQL command, enabling simultaneous operations on a single table.

August 14, 2025

Automatic Cache Warmup

Discover how Firebolt proactively fetches data to keep query latency low.