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Analytics that arrive before the user does.

ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot and the streaming infrastructure underneath them. Sub-second analytics on fresh data — for product surfaces, operational dashboards and the customer-facing experiences they power.

§ 01The problem

The problem we solve

Once a product needs analytics surfaced inside the product itself — usage dashboards for customers, real-time operational views, alerting on user behaviour — warehouse-grade tools (10-second queries) stop being acceptable. Building a real-time analytics layer is a specialist discipline: streaming ingestion, columnar engines, materialized views and concurrency tuning.

§ 02Capabilities

What we ship

  • 01Streaming ingestion: Kafka, Redpanda, Kinesis to columnar stores
  • 02Real-time columnar databases: ClickHouse, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot
  • 03Materialized views and incremental aggregation
  • 04Stream processing: Materialize, Bytewax, Flink
  • 05Customer-facing embedded analytics
  • 06Operational dashboards with sub-second refresh
  • 07Concurrency tuning for many simultaneous users
  • 08Cost-aware partitioning and TTL strategies
§ 03Deliverables

What you receive

  • Production real-time analytics stack with documented invariants
  • Embedded dashboard or operational view shipped in your product
  • Performance and concurrency baseline
  • Runbook for the failure modes specific to streaming
§ 04Stack

Stack we reach for

ClickHouse
Apache Druid
Apache Pinot
Kafka · Redpanda · Kinesis
Materialize · Bytewax · Flink
Tinybird
Cube · GoodData
§ 05Ideal for

Ideal for

  • Products shipping customer-facing analytics inside the app
  • Operations teams running on live dashboards (logistics, support, marketplaces)
  • Trading and finance interfaces requiring fresh data
  • Companies whose warehouse can't keep up with operational queries
§ 06Process

How an engagement runs

  1. 01

    Workload mapping

    Query patterns, freshness requirements, concurrency profile — written down before architecture.

  2. 02

    Architecture

    Streaming → columnar → API → UI stack chosen for your specific shape.

  3. 03

    Implementation

    End-to-end pipeline built and tuned to meet the targets.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Observability, runbooks, on-call handoff.

§ 07Engagement

How to engage

01

Feasibility Sprint

2 weeks

Prototype on your real data demonstrating sub-second latency at concurrency.

02

Real-time Analytics Build

8 — 14 weeks

Production stack with embedded dashboards and documentation.

§ 08Common questions

Frequently asked.

01ClickHouse vs Druid vs Pinot?

ClickHouse for most modern teams — best ergonomics, broadest community, excellent performance. Druid where deep operational maturity is required. Pinot for specific Linkedin-scale use cases. We'll match the engine to your problem.

02Can we just use our warehouse?

For internal analytics, usually yes. For sub-second user-facing queries at concurrency, no — warehouses aren't designed for that workload. We'll tell you when each is appropriate.

Have a problem worth solving well?

Tell us the outcome you want. We'll tell you what it takes — honestly, within a week, in writing.

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