Joe Karlsson

Agent-based CMDB discovery fails in cloud environments with containers, serverless, and managed services.

I live in the terminal.

Traditional CMDBs fail 70-80% (Gartner 2024) due to agent-based architecture and rigid ITIL data models.

Discover why and when you need a cloud asset inventory for your AWS environment.

Discover how CloudQuery solves cloud visibility fragmentation by providing AI-powered insights across all AWS resources.

Learn the five essential design principles for building cloud asset inventories that deliver results - freshness, completeness, normalization, queryability, and extensibility.

Discover five essential principles for building cloud asset inventories that deliver real business value.

Learn how AI-powered cloud security reduces investigation time by 55% across AWS, GCP, Azure with our open-source demo.

Comprehensive performance analysis of CloudQuery across multiple platforms and data sources, achieving 581 GB/hour throughput on consumer grade hardware when processing local data, with detailed analysis of cloud provider API rate limiting impacts.

AI applications need fresh, unified data to succeed.

CloudQuery Insights monitors your complete asset inventory and surfaces interconnected signals across security, cost, policy, and audit data automatically.

We benchmarked our ETL tool and synced 1 million rows in 2 seconds on laptop hardware, which is 68% faster than enterprise platforms.

What is AWS Cloud Asset Inventory?

Lessons we learned from building an MCP server to bridge LLMs with cloud infrastructure databases.

How we built a Go-based MCP server to make AI Assistants data-aware, bridging code and database, which ended up transforming the way we code.

CloudQuery's new MCP server lets AI agents directly query your cloud inventory using natural language.

After five years of building automations in Home Assistant, I finally pulled the trigger on something I’d been contemplating for months: completely replacing my Amazon Alexa ecosystem with Home...

A fresh asset inventory is the foundation of successful developer portals.

CCOEs aren't going away, they're evolving.

Part 4 of the Cloud CoE series: a battle-tested roadmap covering what to build first, what to skip, how to avoid the ivory tower trap, and keeping your CoE alive past year one.

Cloud costs aren't just a budgeting issue, they're a systems problem.

Who actually owns cloud policy?

Discover how to build a successful Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to drive cloud governance, security, and innovation across your enterprise.

How we built a full-text search for CloudQuery using ClickHouse, achieving 10x faster queries without dedicated search engines.

How we turned our search bar into a domain-specific language using Peggy instead of regex, solving complex parsing challenges for cloud resource queries.

Enrich your CloudQuery cloud asset inventory with ipinfo.io geolocation, ASN, and privacy detection data using SQL joins.

Learn how to tackle the challenges of managing Kubernetes assets across multiple clouds with the central configuration store pattern.

Check your cloud public IPs against AbuseIPDB abuse scores using CloudQuery inventory data and SQL joins.

How we solved memory explosion issues in ClickHouse when processing billions of rows of cloud configuration data using an Insert-Splitter with UUID-range bucketing technique.

CloudQuery Reports delivers actionable insights for multi-cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization with ready-to-use dashboards and SQL queries.

After six months using ClickHouse as CloudQuery's default backend, here's what we learned about performance, JOIN limits, sorting keys, materialized views, and benchmarking.

Learn how to easily track and fix end-of-life cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP with CloudQuery new End-of-Life (EOL) integration.

Keeping cloud asset data up to date across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes has been a challenge until now.

CloudQuery SQL Console lets you search your cloud like a database.

Learn how to build a cloud asset inventory in AWS using CloudQuery, PostgreSQL, and Grafana.

Stop guessing what in your multi-cloud environment.

Learn how to build AI-powered applications while keeping your sensitive data secure and private on your own infrastructure.

Learn how to build an Azure cloud asset inventory with CloudQuery and PostgreSQL.

Cloud asset inventory is vital for managing multi-cloud environments, enhancing security, and ensuring compliance.

Learn SOC2 compliance essentials: protect data, build trust, and meet regulatory standards with security, availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

How Tempus uses CloudQuery on GCP with Terraform, GKE, Cloud SQL, and Grafana to run nightly syncs across 80+ AWS accounts and 1000+ GCP projects for compliance and security.

Learn how to build a unified multi-cloud asset inventory with CloudQuery.

Learn how to build a multi-cloud asset inventory (AWS, GCP, Azure) with this step-by-step guide.

Learn how to build a GCP cloud asset inventory with CloudQuery, PostgreSQL, and dbt.

“Today, we’re jumping into databases.

Data - it’s the new oil, the new gold, the new … you get the idea.

In modern data ecosystems, streaming data flows like traffic on a busy highway.

‘The ever-increasing tide of data has become a paradox of plenty for today’’s developers.

Real-time, personalized recommendations have become a foundational part of our online experiences.

Efficient text search is one of the hardest problems in data engineering.