Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-285 · dossier edition · 27 September 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

analytics platform migration · operational

Fresha moves its Postgres-backed home-page analytics path to StarRocks

Fresha states that it moved the bounded Postgres-backed home-page analytics path to StarRocks and had StarRocks production workloads operating from spring 2025.

Organisation
Fresha, United Kingdom
Predecessor
the bounded home-page analytics path backed by PostgreSQL as an accidental analytics cache
Destination
the home-page analytics workload operating on StarRocks in production
Workload
StarRocks
Stage
operational
Evidence boundary: The evidence is bounded to the home-page analytics path. Snowflake remains in Fresha's wider architecture, so no full Snowflake-retirement claim is made and no exact private cutover day is inferred.

Verified platform change

Fresha states that it moved the bounded Postgres-backed home-page analytics path to StarRocks and had StarRocks production workloads operating from spring 2025.

Transition

From: the bounded home-page analytics path backed by PostgreSQL as an accidental analytics cache

To: the home-page analytics workload operating on StarRocks in production

Known unknowns

The evidence is bounded to the home-page analytics path. Snowflake remains in Fresha's wider architecture, so no full Snowflake-retirement claim is made and no exact private cutover day is inferred.

Official sources

  1. How we accidentally became one of UK's first StarRocks production pioneers — 2025-08-18
  2. Rethinking data modelling when moving from Snowflake to StarRocks — 2026-01-14