# How Padlet uses ClickHouse Cloud to power real-time classroom analytics

DevFeed: [How Padlet uses ClickHouse Cloud to power real-time classroom analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-padlet-uses-clickhouse-cloud-to-power-real-time-classroom-analytics-5478.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/padlet>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2026-03-30T12:51:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

Padlet uses ClickHouse Cloud to provide teachers with real-time classroom analytics. The article describes the need for immediate engagement metrics and the technical challenge of serving billions of events generated by around 40 million monthly users.

## Source excerpt

Padlet uses ClickHouse Cloud to deliver real-time classroom analytics at scale, supporting billions of events per month with sub-second queries and no dedicated data team.