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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.

Tinybird Examples

How an eCommerce giant replaced Google Analytics for privacy and speed

Here's the architecture they built to satisfy data privacy laws without limiting speed or scale.

How I replaced Google Analytics with Retool and Tinybird, Part 1

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

Tech

A privacy-first approach to building a Google Analytics alternative

Respecting your web visitors' privacy and getting the data you need don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Data 101

What is a data product?

Like a song recorded in a studio, a data product is more than the sum of its parts.

Our Beliefs

The definition of real-time data

What is real-time data? A precise definition is elusive. In this case, a metaphor helps.

ClickHouse

Text search at scale with ClickHouse

Searching for thousands of regex patterns on millions of documents in seconds like it’s no big deal.

Data 101

The data rules worth $40,000 a day

A "real-world" example of how data best practices can seriously shrink your usage bill.

Product

To the limits of SQL... and beyond

The Tinybird templating language lets you do more than define query parameters for your endpoints.

Company

Big security updates from Tinybird

Tinybird is now SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, plus we've added support for enterprise authentication.

Tech

Use AWS SNS to send data to Tinybird

SNS is a popular pub/sub messaging system for AWS users. Here's how to use SNS to send data to Tinybird.

Our Beliefs

Usage-based pricing: Should you build or buy?

With the advent of realtime analytics platforms, the value of buying SaaS usage-based pricing may be diminishing.

Building In Public

How we recreated r/place with 10 lines of SQL

Two developers built a data-intensive real-time app in half an hour.

Tinybird Examples

DataMarket replaced 4 data stack tools with Tinybird

We originally built the WhiteBox spinoff with on-premise infrastructure, but consolidated everything on Tinybird to scale.