Living Document Notice
Staged 2026-09-28. Living revisions and interconnected notes live in the Bosun PKM Garden.

Dual-Track Clinical Telemetry and Parquet Storage Sinks

High-frequency biometric telemetry from wearable sensors generates massive time-series datasets that quickly bloat plain-text vault files. Pratique implements a dual-track architecture, pairing human-readable Markdown clinical notes with partitioned columnar Parquet sinks.

Telemetry Invariants

  1. Clean Frontmatter Summaries: Markdown notes store qualitative clinical observations, diagnostic summaries, and statistical rollups (resting heart rate, HRV RMSSD).
  2. Columnar Partitioning: High-frequency raw sensor streams serialize into partitioned Parquet files (telemetry/pratique/) for lightning-fast analytical queries.
  3. Local In-Process Analysis: Analytical queries run locally via DuckDB without external cloud health API dependencies.

Dual-track telemetry preserves long-term note readability while maintaining full access to raw high-resolution sensor data.


  • Directus Target: pratique-blog
  • Garden Source Reference: MOC - Pratique Health Engine, MOC - Fleet Operations, LOG-1001 - Append-Only Temporal Logs