Sida Shen

Sida Shen is a contributor to the StarRocks project and a product manager at CelerData. As an engineer with a background in building machine learning and big data infrastructures, he oversees the company’s market research while working closely with engineers and developers across the analytics industry to tackle challenges related to big data and AI.
Blog Post by Sida Shen

2026 Is When Open Data, Real-Time Analytics and AI Agents Converge

For years, the industry has been promised a unified data future, lakehouses built on open table formats, AI agents that operate safely ...

Analytical Agents — New Challenges for the Underlying Data Infrastructure

Analytical Agents are no longer theoretical — they are here, automating decision-making and providing instant insights with minimal hum...

From Hours to Seconds: How Yuno Accelerated Customer-Facing Analytics By Switching Off Snowflake and Athena

<1s latency | 5-second data freshness | 100s of concurrency About Yuno Yuno is a fast-growing fintech company that provides payment ...

StarRocks 4.0: Bringing Native Columnar Performance to JSON

JSON was never designed for analytics. It’s extremely flexible, universal, and perfect for fast-changing data—but once those JSON logs ...

StarRocks 4.0: Delivering Query-Ready Data to Apache Iceberg

Data in your Apache Iceberg tables often doesn't land in a way that's optimized for queries. Continuous micro-batch writes create tens ...

Announcing StarRocks 4.0: Open, Fast, Governed

StarRocks 4.0 is here! Unveiled at the StarRocks Global Summit, version 4.0 marks the next major milestone in the StarRocks journey. In...

Data Skew in Customer-Facing Analytics: The Hidden Cost Behind Latency

In customer-facing analytics, delivering fast, interactive insights isn’t just a bonus—it’s a baseline expectation. Users expect sub-se...

Why Customer-Facing Analytics Needs More Than Just Fast

Delivering analytics to customers might seem like an extension of what internal BI platforms already do—running SQL queries, rendering ...

Customer-Facing Analytics Meets Agents: Eightfold‘s Move from Redshift to StarRocks

Eightfold.ai needed sub-second, multi-tenant analytics—today for humans, tomorrow for AI agents. By migrating from Redshift to StarRock...