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June 13, 2025

Live Engine Upgrades, Zero Downtime: The Firebolt Method

Discover how Firebolt delivers seamless, no-downtime upgrades using shadow clusters and real-time performance.

Ilya Shakhat

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January 17, 2023

Analyzing the GitHub Events Dataset using Firebolt - Using Jupyter for data exploration

In this blog we will discover the data using Streamlit and Jupyter and the Firebolt Python SDK.

Alexander Reelsen

January 9, 2023

Event streams in Firebolt

Event streams have always been problematic to analyze in SQL. This is how we do it.

Robert Harmon

December 18, 2022

What is a Data App?

Data apps are applications that rely heavily on data and have an easy to use.

Firebolt Academy

December 5, 2022

AWS re:Invent Keynote Recap for Data Professionals

AWS re:invent 2022 was all about building the anticipation and delivering on expectations of us technologists.

Firebolt Team

October 11, 2022

Semi-structured data modeling

How to ingest, store and query JSON data, for example, is a consistent question on the minds of customers.

Firebolt Team

October 3, 2022

PostgreSQL Swiss army knife and The analytics workload

Is Postgres truly the right engine for analytics?

Firebolt Team

September 25, 2022

Firebolt and Data Mesh

Data Mesh is hot stuff. But from a technology perspective it’s still not very well defined.

Matthew Darwin

September 13, 2022

Big Data Analytics for Gaming

In our recent ‘Big Data Analytics for Gaming Workshop’ we let the audience do the talking, here’s a summary of the talk.

Firebolt Team

August 30, 2022

Hey David and Tristan, this is where Firebolt is at

"When I see David Jayatillake and Tristan Handy comment on Firebolt's approach it is clear that Firebolt is on track."

Robert Harmon

August 4, 2022

Druid Architecture Compared to Firebolt - A Practitioner’s View

Firebolt provides an alternative to Druid, delivering fast response times, high concurrency and the convenience of a Saa

Ben Hopp

July 26, 2022

Cloud data warehouse costs: Look before you leap

In this post, we look at factors to consider when building a data warehouse.

Firebolt Team

July 10, 2022

Faster Data Replication from Kafka Using Hevo and Firebolt

How to Set Up Your Data Analytics Stack with Kafka, Hevo, and Firebolt.

Brian Bickell

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Blog

Live Engine Upgrades, Zero Downtime: The Firebolt Method

Analyzing the GitHub Events Dataset using Firebolt - Using Jupyter for data exploration

Event streams in Firebolt

What is a Data App?

AWS re:Invent Keynote Recap for Data Professionals

Semi-structured data modeling

PostgreSQL Swiss army knife and The analytics workload

Firebolt and Data Mesh

Big Data Analytics for Gaming

Hey David and Tristan, this is where Firebolt is at

Druid Architecture Compared to Firebolt - A Practitioner’s View

Cloud data warehouse costs: Look before you leap

Faster Data Replication from Kafka Using Hevo and Firebolt