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> YAML, pivoting being done in the frontend, no symmetric aggregates (one of the maintainers of Lightdash) You touched on some of our most interesting problems here! Would be espec…

We're building support for dbt cloud users right now. Using dbt locally has allowed us to piggy-back on dbt's query runner and we're having to build that ourselves to support dbt c…

Thanks! With Hubble, we realised that while some companies wanted a separate tool to monitor data quality (e.g. data governance teams in financial integrations) most modern data te…

Hey HN, We're really excited to release the first public version of Lightdash! Lightdash is an open source alternative to looker that lets analysts define data transformations and …

Hey all! Wrote a simple CLI tool that converts dbt models into looker view files. Once you've built your dbt project, run dbt2looker and copy the files over to looker. Features: - …

Hey HN! Just had a new hire join the team and we had a sprint to release a slack app we were using internally. We call it Beacon. It hooks up to your data warehouse or transactiona…

Same experience but reverted to Mac because the hardware is unbeatable. Had MacBooks since the white clamshells and eventually wanted to go full linux. So bought the X1 Carbon and …

I saw that but couldn't square it with the earlier sentence. In my previous role we interviewed tens of small business owners and nobody knew what was in their docs. I hope insuran…

> Most of the UK's biggest insurance companies produce policies that explain everything fully in plain English. Is this an argument in favour of plain English? Insurance policy doc…

Why is "doing software engineering" not "doing science"? Anybody who has conducted experimental research will say they spent 80% of the time using a hammer or a spanner. Repairing …

Yes we can run the whole stack on-prem. We realised very early that on-prem would be needed for many users. So we've made it easy to spin up Hubble in a k8s cluster in your cloud o…

Metadata is a valuable place for finding information like load times, rows inserted / updated. Currently we just rely on read-access and raw SQL. A common way users are doing this …

Yes, we store the historical value of each test so you can always scroll back through time and see the state of the data warehouse at any given point. For example, if you have a te…

Yeah we called this project hubble long before we were worried about SEO. Actually, the name does relate back to Edwin Hubble. We previously worked together on an internal data too…

Thanks! We love DBT and take a lot of inspiration from their work. We’re putting a lot of effort into suggesting the right tests based on the data types, sources, and field names. …

Full table scans can get expensive. We’re adding support for incremental tests so for append-only tables you’ll only test the recent rows. This is especially useful if you use part…

Hey everyone! We’re Oliver and Hamzah from Hubble ( https://gethubble.io/hn ). Hubble runs tests on your data warehouse so you can identify issues with data quality. You can test f…

> This is the crux of the AI business dilemma. If the economics are a function of the problem – not the technology per se – how can we improve them? The article focusses on the cos…