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Engineering

We benchmarked our ETL tool and synced 1 million rows in 2 seconds on a MacBook

We benchmarked our ETL tool and synced 1 million rows in 2 seconds on laptop hardware, which is 68% faster than enterprise platforms.

Joe Karlsson

August 27, 2026

Developers

Engineering

Third Normal Form (3NF) vs Star Schema: When to Use Each

Learn the differences between Third Normal Form (3NF) and star schema with SQL examples, table diagrams, and guidance on when to use each in a data warehouse.

Tim Armstrong

February 25, 2026

Developers

Cloud Asset Inventory

Engineering

Platform Engineering

6 Cloud CMDB Best Practices for Platform Engineers (2026 Guide)

Cloud CMDB best practices for multi-account environments: automated discovery, tiered sync strategies, SQL-based querying, and historical data retention.

Joe Karlsson

October 29, 2025

Developers

Cloud Asset Inventory

Engineering

The Real-Time Cloud CMDB - Why Ephemeral Infrastructure Killed Traditional Discovery

Traditional CMDBs miss ephemeral resources because containers live minutes. Modern cloud CMDBs use tiered sync strategies for real-time accuracy and coverage.

Joe Karlsson

October 24, 2025

Developers

Engineering

Tutorials

Scale GitHub Issues semantic search with CloudQuery, BigQuery, and Vertex AI

Sync GitHub issues to BigQuery with CloudQuery, generate Vertex AI embeddings via BigQuery remote models, and power fast, fully managed semantic search.

Mariano Gappa

October 9, 2025

Developers

AWS

Cloud Infrastructure

Engineering

How to Design a Cloud Asset Inventory for AWS

Learn five essential design principles for cloud asset inventories: freshness, completeness, normalization, queryability, and automation for real AWS results.

Joe Karlsson

October 3, 2025

Developers

Engineering

Tutorials

Improve GitHub Issues search effortlessly with CloudQuery, pgvector and OpenAI

Turn GitHub issues into instant insights by syncing with CloudQuery, generating pgvector embeddings in PostgreSQL, and querying with natural language.

Mariano Gappa

October 1, 2025

Developers

Engineering

CloudQuery Performance Benchmark Analysis: 581 GB/Hour Throughput and the Reality of Cloud API Constraints

Performance analysis of CloudQuery across AWS, GCP, and Azure achieving 581 GB/hour throughput on consumer hardware, with real-world API constraint data.

Joe Karlsson

September 15, 2025

Developers

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