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What We're Reading

Writing good docs, the importance of speed, SQLite and no-code tools for coders - What our team is reading

How to write good documentation, why speed wins and how SQLite succeeded and on choosing to build no-code tools for highly technical people

Tech

Publish SQL-based endpoints on NGINX log analysis

Building a highly scalable log analytics tool with Tinybird and exporting your queries as an API.

Tech

Low-latency APIs over your BigQuery datasets

BigQuery is not designed (or priced) to withstand hundreds of requests per second. Here is how you can add Tinybird to the mix to productise that data.

ClickHouse

Clickhouse Tips #1: Calculating Aggregations After a Given Date

Tips and recipes to learn how to make the most of ClickHouse, curated weekly by the Tinybird team.

Product

Product design: how our SaaS integrates with git

Analytics data projects are code and code should be in a repo.

Tech

Querying large CSVs online with SQL

Use Tinybird to query large CSVs using SQL, right from your browser.

Product

Gain Visibility Over Your Asynchronous Operations

Now, you will be also able to see the status of your job queue from the UI.

Building In Public

How we processed 12 trillion rows during Black Friday

In this post we explain the data architecture, infrastructure and how we scale our real-time analytics service with ClickHouse.

Product

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Tinybird Examples

Investigating Performance Bottlenecks With SQL & Statistics

How to correlate API endpoint parameters and response times with Tinybird to find performance bottlenecks. And how to visualize and prioritize them with Google Sheets.

What We're Reading

Monitoring startup performance, how Cloudflare uses ClickHouse, and how surprisingly SQLite is everywhere – What our team is reading

I was able to have a relatively discrete view of current system status and performance in realtime. You need this sort of realtime data if you’re going to be...

Product

Changelog: Revamping the API endpoints workflow and boosting your productivity

A cleaner and more contextualized API endpoint publication workflow, a bunch of quick guides that'll boost your productivity dealing with large data projects and... some spooky extras!!

Product

Changelog: 7x faster and increased reliability

A new authentication provider, a dramatical improvement in the Pipes API performance, more reliable APIs thanks to dozens of bug fixes and an easter egg! This is what we've been working on at Tinybird over the last few weeks

Product

Changelog: New API endpoints pages for easier integration, upgraded version of ClickHouse and more

Building real-time data apps/products gets faster everyday with Tinybird: a new way to publish and consume API endpoints, Tinybird running on the latest version of ClickHouse and a wealth of other small but critical enhancements. That, plus a beta release of our most powerful tool yet

What We're Reading

Krulak's law, basketball dunks and the things you still need to learn - What our team is reading

The experience people have with your brand is in the hands of the person you pay the least. Act accordingly.

What We're Reading

About CLI best practices, the advantages of being a generalist nowadays, and the trust behind an Open Source culture - What our team is reading

If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scientists in all of history uncover this.

What We're Reading

Write-ahead logs, recommender systems and a clean start for the web - What our team is reading

At base, the idea was to keep each record in the database in a linked list of versions stamped with transaction IDs — in some sense, this is 'the log as data' or 'the data as a log', depending on your point of view.

Product

Selective data deletion: a new feature for data quality management

Selective data deletion lets you delete rows of a Tinybird datasource that match a specified delete condition. This is important for an API-first platform.

Tinybird Examples

Operational Analytics. Data Insights Are Great

Traditional data warehouses are well suited for putting data together and enabling BI teams to do data exploration and analysis, but they are not a great sol...

Product

Improving the data ingestion experience: better error feedback

Identifying errors when ingesting Terabytes of data can be like finding a needle in a haystack. We have improved our ingestion process to make it easier to troubleshoot ingestion problems, even if you are ingesting billions of rows.

What We're Reading

Summer Edition – What our team is reading

From renaming genes due to a computer error to a metaphor of legacy code in a fantasy novel

Product

Analytics API endpoints for your developers

At Tinybird, we have put a lot of effort in ensuring that building API endpoints against large quantities of Data is as simple as possible.

Product

A new dashboard for Tinybird Analytics

A key part of running an effective Analytics Platform within an organization is being able to keep a tight control over usage and performance, ingestion jobs...

What We're Reading

The Fremen – What our team is reading

If you want to know how to work with new or limited resources, find a population that’s used to not having many alternatives.

Product

Introducing the Data Operations Log

Problems with data ingestion are common: some data may be missing, or maybe it is in the wrong format or has the wrong encoding… it happens.