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

September 15, 2025

Implementing Firebolt MERGE Statement

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

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February 15, 2022

Future of Performance is Not About Performance

The data warehousing market has gone absolutely mad over performance. Why is this the case?

February 10, 2022

SQL: Thinking in Lambdas

Many programming languages are imperative – tell the compiler how to operate by providing the instructions in order.

January 26, 2022

Firebolt Announces Series C Round at $1.4 Billion Valuation to Build the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Cloud Data Warehouse

Demand from engineering teams has skyrocketed since Firebolt emerged from stealth last year

December 9, 2021

Firebolt Indexes in Action (clustered and non-clustered)

Indexes are the primary way for users to accelerate query performance in Firebolt. Learn about them here.

November 23, 2021

Cloud Data Warehouse: The Hitchhikers Guide

Everything you needed to know about cloud data warehouses but were afraid to ask...

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November 17, 2021

Postgres and MySQL for Analytics - Meeting the 1 second SLA

Learn when to use Postgres, MySQL, in-memory databases, HTAP, or data warehouses to meet the 1 sec SLA in analytics.

October 19, 2021

Top 10 Ways to Improve Cloud Data Warehouse Performance (And how it’s done in Firebolt)

Lear the top 10 tips of how to improve your cloud data warehouse performance.

Firebolt Ignites Growth with a $127M Series B Funding Round

Upstart cloud data warehouse sees rapid growth in 2021, plans to double its workforce

Amazon Athena 2.0 (Presto 0.217) - What’s New

Amazon Athena engine version 2 - what’s new and big enough to call this a 2.0 release?

The real meaning of a data lake

Making sense of a data lakes, delta lake, lakehouse, data warehouse and more.

JSON the SQL: Choosing the best data warehouse for semi-structured data

Working with semi-structured data can be more like a Jason (horror movie) Sequel than JSON SQL.

ETL Vs. ELT - Know The Differences

Explore the significant differences between ELT and ETL data integration processes and find the best option for you.