Tinybird blog

Product updates

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 updates

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 updates

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 updates

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 updates

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.

Engineering Excellence

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.

Product updates

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.

Engineering Excellence

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.

I Built This!

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.

Tinybird news

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.

I Built This!

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.

The Data Base

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.

Scalable Analytics Architecture

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 updates

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.

The Data Base

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.

Tinybird news

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.

Scalable Analytics Architecture

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 updates

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.

I Built This!

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.

I Built This!

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

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

I Built This!

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 updates

We've improved notifications for ingestion issues

A little boost to ingestion observability in Tinybird.

I Built This!

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.

I Built This!

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.

Scalable Analytics Architecture

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.