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Our Beliefs

Data-Driven Talk: Build fast APIs, faster, over data at scale

Tinybird helps developers and data engineers build fast APIs, faster, over streaming data at scale. This is a partial transcript from a talk given by Jorge Gomez Sancha, Co-Founder and CEO of Tinybird, at Data Driven NYC ‘23.

Real-time Data

Real-Time Analytics: Examples, Use Cases, Tools & FAQs

Real-time data analytics can be a powerful differentiator for businesses. But how should you approach it to maximize output and keep costs in check? Get answers to these questions - and many more - in this definitive guide.

Product

Build fast charts faster with the Tinybird Grafana plugin

Grafana is the observability tool of choice for Platform teams, so why settle for slow dashboards? Today, we announce the release of the Tinybird plugin for Grafana, so you can build fast charts, faster.

Product

Build serverless real-time analytics on Vercel with Tinybird

What do Tinybird and Vercel have in common? A lot, as it turns out. Today, we announce the new Tinybird Integration available in the Vercel Integration Marketplace. Use it to sync your Tinybird Workspaces with your Vercel projects to build the real-time, serverless analytics you've always wanted.

Product

Simplifying event sourcing with scheduled data snapshots in Tinybird

Tinybird has always made it possible to ingest relentless streams of data, query and shape them using SQL, and publish them as high-concurrency, low-latency APIs for use in your applications.

Product

Building an enterprise-grade real-time analytics platform

Tinybird is an enterprise-grade real-time analytics platform trusted by businesses of all sizes. Today, we are excited to announce Tinybird Organizations, a new feature for enterprise customers to monitor usage on multiple Workspaces and manage their projects across Tinybird in a single dashboard.

Product

Transforming real-time applications with Tinybird and Google BigQuery

Today, Tinybird is excited to announce the launch of our new Google BigQuery Connector, offering Google BigQuery users an easy and reliable method to bring their data to Tinybird where they can query and shape it using SQL and publish it as low-latency APIs to be consumed by their applications.

Product

More Data, More Apps: Improving data ingestion in Tinybird

Building with Tinybird all starts with data ingestion, so we're focused on making it even better. Read on for updates to our ingestion experience, plus examples of how Tinybird customers ingest, query, and publish with Tinybird.

Building In Public

How we cut our CI pipeline execution time in half

Our GitLab CI pipeline was slow and flaky. Here’s how we used telemetry data, real-time analytics, and smart k8s configuration to fix it.

Tinybird Examples

Log Analytics: how to identify trends and correlations that Log Analysis tools cannot

Introducing the Tinybird Log Analytics Starter Kit. It’s an open-source template to help you take your Log Analysis to the next level using analytics that help you examine your software logs to identify trends, patterns, and more. It’s free and available today.

Building In Public

Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing

How we used rendezvous hashing to horizontally scale Kafka consumers to support hundreds of concurrent topics with fewer connections, thus lowering our infrastructure costs.

Tinybird Examples

The top emojis on Twitter for every hour of 2022

I've been streaming 100 tweets/sec since the beginning of the year and using Tinybird to analyze and publish the top emoji for every hour of 2022. See what events you can find in these 8,760 emojis.

Company

Tinybird is SOC 2 Type II compliant

Trust is earned, not given, and we're proud to have achieved this important certification to celebrate the trust we’ve earned from our customers.

Tinybird Examples

Measuring World Cup sentiment with Twitter and Tinybird

How do people feel during a World Cup match? I combined Twitter, Python, Tinybird, and Retool to find out.

Data 101

Understanding the Data Warehouse

What gave rise to the Data Warehouse? What do they enable? I answer these questions in this first of a two-blog series.

Product

Comparing Tinybird to AWS Kinesis, S3, Glue, and Athena

Amazon S3, Kinesis, Glue, and Athena are often used for strategic data analysis. Learn how Tinybird fits in the AWS stack for real-time, operational analytics.

Product

Introducing a redesigned Tinybird UI for better developer productivity

At its core, Tinybird is a platform for developer productivity. Today, we’re releasing an updated UI experience so you can explore Data Sources and create Pipes with fewer clicks.

Our Beliefs

When you should use columnar databases and not Postgres, MySQL, or MongoDB

Row-oriented, OLTP databases aren't ideal application DBs when you know you'll need to run analytics on lots of data. Choose a column-oriented OLAP instead.

ClickHouse

We launched an open source ClickHouse Knowledge Base

ClickHouse is an incredible database. We want to help our community learn how to better use it for realtime analytics.

Our Beliefs

The Data Journey: Unlocking data for the right now

We're all in the middle of a multi-step process to consolidate, model, and operationalize our data. Here's where we're getting stuck, and what to do about it.

Product

You can now explore and analyze time series data in Tinybird

Visualize and analyze in real time any data source with a timestamp using SQL WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING filters.

Tinybird Examples

Looking for an open source Google Analytics alternative? Set one up in 3 minutes.

Use the Tinybird Web Analytics Starter Kit to quickly start streaming web events data to a readymade dashboard.

Tinybird Examples

How Session Rewind rapidly built an affordable session replay tool with Tinybird

Session Rewind delivers a seamless UX at an unmatched price using Tinybird.

Tinybird Examples

How I replaced Google Analytics with Retool and Tinybird, Part 2

Tinybird serves as a powerful and flexible backend for building analytics dashboards in any UI - in this case Retool.

Product

We've improved notifications for ingestion issues

A little boost to ingestion observability in Tinybird.