ClickHouse Melbourne Meetup - Aug 2026

Join us as ClickHouse returns to Melbourne for another exciting meetup—connect, share insights, and network with fellow tech and data enthusiasts over great conversations and delicious food!

🗓️ Agenda

• 5:30 PM: Registration, dinner & networking
• 6:00 PM: Welcome and Introductions
• 6:10 PM: Talk 1 - From Traces to Trust: Shipping Reliable LLM Apps with Langfuse by Muhammad Ali, Senior Solution Architect @ ClickHouse
• 6:40 PM: Talk 2 - Managing ClickHouse Cloud with SQL and AI Agents using StackQL and MCP by Jeffrey Aven, Founder @ StackQL Studios Pty Ltd
• 7:10 PM: Q&A & networking
• 8:00 PM: Wrap-up

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🎤 Session Details: From Traces to Trust: Shipping Reliable LLM Apps with Langfuse
Description: Building an LLM demo is easy; running one in production is not. This deep dive walks through how Langfuse helps teams move from "it works on my prompt" to measurable, debuggable, cost-aware AI systems. We'll explore tracing and spans for complex agent pipelines, prompt management and versioning, evaluation workflows to catch regressions before users do, and dashboards for cost and latency monitoring. Along the way, we'll look at real traces from a live application and discuss how observability data feeds back into improving prompts, models, and architecture. If you're building with LLMs or agents, you'll leave with a concrete playbook for instrumenting your own stack.
Speaker: Muhammad Ali, Senior Solution Architect @ ClickHouse
Muhammad Ali is a Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, helping teams design high-performance analytics systems and make deliberate choices about data formats, engines, and lock-in trade-offs in the agentic era.

🎤 Session Details: Managing ClickHouse Cloud with SQL and AI Agents using StackQL and MCP
Description: This session will also demonstrate exposing these capabilities to AI agents via the StackQL MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Connected to Claude or any MCP-capable client, an agent can discover the ClickHouse provider schema, generate and validate queries, and perform inspection, audit, and gated provisioning operations against ClickHouse Cloud environments from natural language prompts.
The talk is demo-driven: a walkthrough of the ClickHouse provider from the StackQL shell, followed by a live agent session performing an audit and a provisioning task via MCP. All tools and code shown are open source. Relevant to platform engineers, SREs, and anyone operating ClickHouse Cloud environments.
Speaker: Jeff Aven is the co-creator of StackQL, an open source project for querying and provisioning cloud and SaaS resources using SQL, and co-founder of StackQL Studios. He has over 35 years in the technology industry, is a published author on data and analytics, and an authorised trainer for Databricks, Google, and Confluent. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

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