February 2025 newsletter
February’s tech roundup: ElasticON takeaways, Databricks’ $10 billion funding, and IBM’s DataStax buyout. We also dive into ClickHouse’s price hike and AIOps failures.
Insights on agentic coding tools, LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and simulation environments.
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Subscribe via RSSFebruary’s tech roundup: ElasticON takeaways, Databricks’ $10 billion funding, and IBM’s DataStax buyout. We also dive into ClickHouse’s price hike and AIOps failures.
See how a decade of artificial intelligence hype missed the mark in tooling and learn statistical tricks insiders use to spot trouble faster than alert storms.

We estimate a 30% price increase for a typical production workload. This article explains the complex pricing change announced on January 27, 2025, and provides a practical guide to what’s changing.
Get the latest on Quesma’s developments, including key product updates, our 2025 roadmap insights, and how AI is shaping the future of data analytics.
Quesma announces a leadership change as co-founder transitions to an advisory role, reaffirming the company’s mission and ongoing partnerships.
Explore Quesma’s 2024 highlights, including team insights, event recaps, and industry updates on databases and analytics.
Learn how Quesma is applying microservice principles to databases, creating a gateway that simplifies migrations, enhances security, and improves observability.
Discover the latest from Quesma, including new product features, insights on current data management trends, and information on upcoming community events.
Quesma unveils its first public release at KubeCon! Learn about its key features and how it will transform your data journey.
Explore the history of Grafana, a successful Kibana fork. Learn how two multibillion-dollar companies emerged from one project to compete in observability.
Our first newsletter! Learn about Quesma’s mission to revolutionize database architecture, our new partnership with Hydrolix, and our latest SQL invention.
Learn how Quesma and Hydrolix are partnering to cut log data costs. Use your existing Kibana dashboards with Hydrolix’s cost-effective streaming data lake.
Explore SQL as a declarative language. This article breaks down SQL operations into programming primitives and discusses syntax challenges and execution order.
Explore SQL as a programming language with its syntax, semantics, and type system. Part 1 of a series on SQL fundamentals.
Navigate Elasticsearch’s complex pricing with our guide. We cover subscription models, cloud vs. self-hosted options, and hidden costs to help you budget.