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Tinybird Blog
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Tinybird Blog is the company blog at tinybird.co, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 99 times, most often “Tinybird · the Way to Build Real-Time Data Products”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly cite Tinybird's blog while discussing ClickHouse or the company's analytics product. Linked posts cover operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters, benchmarking LLMs on SQL, and the Mockingbird synthetic data tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The data infrastructure and tooling to ship enterprise grade analytical features faster and at a fraction of the cost
Most-linked posts?
- Tinybird · the Way to Build Real-Time Data Products8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-10-27
- Fixing ClickHouse Lock Contention3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-30
- Text Search at Scale with ClickHouse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-27
- Event-driven architecture best practices for databases and files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
- A free and open source mock data generator for your next data project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-20
- Using Bloom filter indexes for real-time text search in ClickHouse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
- Killing the ProcessPoolExecutor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-09
- Which LLM writes the best analytical SQL?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-08
- Lessons learned operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters: Part II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-16
- Open source Google Analytics alternative “starter kit”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
What Hacker News says?
Yeah I mean SQL is pretty nuanced - one of the things we want to improve in the benchmark is how we measure "success", in the sense that multiple correct SQL results can look structurally dissimilar while semantically answering the prompt. There's some interesting takeaways we learned here after the first round: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/we-graded-19-llms-on-sql-...
Comment linking /blog-posts/we-graded-19-llms-on-sql-you-graded-us
on “Claude 4”Submitted I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years as a story · 246 points
HN discussionFor those interested, there's also a second part [2025]: https://www.tinybird.co/blog/what-i-learned-operating-clickh... (note: the first part was originally published April 2025 according to the date tooltip)
Comment linking /blog/what-i-learned-operating-clickhouse-part-ii
on “I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years”Submitted The data rules worth $40k a day as a story · 62 points
HN discussionBI/funnel analytics is a use case that you might have more luck with https://www.tinybird.co/ instead.
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on “OpenTelemetry”Submitted Lessons learned operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters: Part II as a story · 61 points
HN discussionInteresting, are there any open source alternatives to tinybird? https://www.tinybird.co/
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on “Gazette: Cloud-native millisecond-latency streaming”Submitted How to ingest 1B rows/s in ClickHouse as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI'm reading your blog posts about building your own index now. I started writing my own very simple index and search engine, but quickly decided to just use ClickHouse via https://tinybird.co as my backend (Serverless SQL with automatic APIs is pretty sweet) because I wanted to build out the product side of things and my data is really small, so I felt like it was going to be a lot of effort for little reward. Maybe…
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on “The technology behind GitHub’s new code search”Submitted Building affordable user session recording with Kafka and Tinybird as a story · 21 points
HN discussionAs a reply to myself I think https://www.tinybird.co/ is pretty close to this. Except I'm not sure if they are read only or not.
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on “Replacing Complicated Hashmaps with SQLite”Submitted How an eCommerce giant replaced Google Analytics for privacy and speed as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWhat query engine are you using? It's worth checking out Tinybird ( https://www.tinybird.co/ ) if you haven't seen them. Might give you some ideas.
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on “Show HN: Turn any data into a fast analytical API”Submitted Webinar: Ex-Heroku engineer will share how they built usage-based billing as a story · 11 points
HN discussionTinybird | Remote | Frontend Engineer | Backend Engineer | Open-source ClickHouse Engineer | SREs | Developer Advocates | Events Management | Account Executives | Full time | tinybird.co Tinybird is a realtime analytics platform built on top of open source ClickHouse. We go beyond just a managed database, to create a service that makes it easy to build fast, scalable applications over data. We are a FULLY REMOTE com…
Comment linking /job-offers/events-marketing-manager
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)”Submitted ClickHouse JOINs 100x Faster as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHey! We're hiring at Tinybird, this might be interesting for you https://www.tinybird.co/job-offers/backend-engineer ?
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)”Submitted How we made our ingestion pipeline 30% faster with C++ as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHey! You might be interested in one of the roles we have open at Tinybird (we're fully remote). We're building a high-performance data platform ontop of an open source database (ClickHouse in C++). https://www.tinybird.co/job-offers/clickhouse-developer https://www.tinybird.co/job-offers/backend-engineer
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)”Submitted Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSomething similar I found: https://www.tinybird.co/blog/mockingbird-announcement-mock-d...
Comment linking /blog/mockingbird-announcement-mock-data-generator
on “Show HN: Generate coherent, synthetic data at scale”Submitted Why we ditched Prometheus for autoscaling (and don't miss it) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHey people! We ( https://tinybird.co ) are a small startup that makes very easy to build the data infrastructure to do real time analytics on big amounts of data. It provides a layer of abstraction on top of ClickHouse to make ingesting, transforming and creating API endpoints on the data super fast, and after our first year in business we have a bunch of small customers, and several big enterprise ones During Black…
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on “A contest to win free dev accounts of our ClickHouse-based SaaS product”Submitted Lessons learned from operating large ClickHouse clusters in the last 6 years as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> how you see your project differs from GraphJSON ( https://www.graphjson.com/ ) and Tinybird ( https://www.tinybird.co/ )? Not OP, but neither of these appear to be open source?
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on “Show HN: ScratchDB – Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse”Submitted Hey Claude, help me analyze Bluesky data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I work at ClickHouse. Thank you! Looks really interesting! I personally agree that real-time OLAP databases have potential to better serve workloads currently in Postgres or cloud data warehouses that need real-time ingest and analytical queries. And simplifying developer experience on top of that, so you don't have to learn about all the details of a powerful database, really speeds up developer velocit…
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on “Show HN: ScratchDB – Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse”Submitted Open source Google Analytics alternative “starter kit” as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVery exciting, how is feature parity with tinybird? https://www.tinybird.co/
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on “Show HN: Arroyo – Write SQL on streaming data”Submitted Why we maintain a ClickHouse fork at Tinybird (and how it's different) as a story · 6 points
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