clickhouse

I've just been in Sydney for a couple of days for CloudCon 2025. I think depending on how you count this is my third one of these events -- the event has changed names at least twice, so its actually a little hard to work out the lineage of the event. This year's conference was noticeably smaller than last years which is confusing to me for an event which is so competitively priced and branded so heavily with the hot topics dejour. That said the event was well run, in a good venue, and well worth the time. That is, this event really deserves more support than its getting. There were some clear themes from the event for me: ClickHouse is cool. Or at least I think so. ClickHouse observability certainly has potential, but I think the underlying SQL database is actually the most interesting bit. ClickHouse is also investing heavily in the Australian market right now, so I suspect they're seeing strong traction here. No one talks about "devops" any more, because its become a meaningless term where everything is devops if you squint at it right. Instead people are using the term "platform engineering", which doesn't appear to have…