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2 posts on data platforms.

• // data platform

  Mongo → StarRocks

  ms-latency dashboards

  2026-04-28 · 7 min · DATA PLATFORMS

  Why we replaced analytics on Mongo with StarRocks

  What broke when analytical queries shared a tenant cluster with OLTP — and what moving to a real OLAP engine actually gave us.

  • StarRocks
  • Kafka
  • Analytics
• // data platform

  Iceberg lakehouse

  bronze / silver / gold · 10–15 TB

  2026-02-18 · 10 min · DATA PLATFORMS

  A lakehouse with Iceberg and Airflow — bronze, silver, gold

  Why the three-tier lakehouse pattern works for replacing OLAP-on-OLTP, and what each tier actually does in practice.

  • Iceberg
  • Spark
  • Airflow