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While building an IoT telemetry solution, we ran into hurdles with Clickhouse. For one, you can't insert quickly AND durably into Clickhouse without setting up something like Kafka, which gets complicated for quick projects wanting to make use of Clickhouse's powerful features. Then, trying to actually query Clickhouse and show data in a UI required a whole backend API to handle auth and permissions. We figured that all these parts together – fast, durable ingest, row-level and column-level secu

Since April, I have been working with Sam Flynn ( https://drook.dev ) to make this balloon payload, UpLink. We did a similar launch last year with Hack Club but this was our first independent launch. UpLink was a 491 gram payload testing the insulation properties of 3D printing filaments, while also transmitting 320x240 images over a radio link -- up from the 18x10 images last year! This is a writeup on our engineering process, mistakes made, and learning experiences. It covers: - Custom electro