5 countries, 12 days, one ClickHouse: inside Alexey's APJ AI Tour

Summary

ClickHouse CTO and creator Alexey Milovidov completed a 12-day APJ tour spanning India, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan, with customer meetings, industry events, executive sessions, press interviews, and community meetups. The itinerary covered six cities and included three Confluent Data Streaming World Tour events, four ClickHouse meetups, and more than 10 enterprise customer meetings across varied industries and workloads. Discussions centered on real-time analytics, connected products, and analytics at industrial scale, while in-person conversations supplied feedback that the post says helps improve ClickHouse. The trip concluded with the ClickHouse Japan Launch Event on April 27, marking the company’s official entry into that market. The account presents physical presence as a way to extend ClickHouse’s open-building culture beyond GitHub and strengthen its feedback loop with APJ customers and communities.

Takeaways

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   The itinerary covered five countries, six cities, six flights, three Confluent Data Streaming World Tour events, four ClickHouse meetups, and more than 10 enterprise customer meetings.

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   Customer discussions included real-time analytics, connected products, and analytics at industrial scale across different industries, workloads, and scale problems.

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   The Japan Launch Event on April 27 marked ClickHouse’s official launch in the Japan market, while the tour’s in-person feedback loop was presented as supporting further database improvements.