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   Evidence (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build a web framework for data teams(workatastartup.com)

   1 points by amcaskill 5y ago
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Yes 100% -- you could also imagine just syncing from the UI to a repo, rather than trying to make the config human-editable. Toggle into a branch in the UI, make edits, and have those committed to the repo by the tool. Looks awesome, I am r
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   That is not what I meant, but also pretty interesting. I actually mean the 'definition' of the syncs themselves. I am picturing JSON or YAML that describes the source fields, their mapping to the destination fields, and any other
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Fantastic! Congratulations on the launch. Is there a way to version control the sync configurations? Any thoughts on putting that in the roadmap? I'd love to be able to put my 'Castled config' in the same repo as my dbt proje
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   I am chipping away on a project called Evidence that might be of interest to you. Here’s the HN discussion from a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   This is a fair point! YMMV, but in our experience the vast majority of the hours logged in the 'self-serve' pivot table interface of a BI system come from folks who actually do know SQL and have the word analyst in their title. Wh
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   You are correct that Evidence executes queries at build time, not at load time. In a production environment for business reporting we would expect users to be building their project a few times a day, if not more often. For example, we comp
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   The amount owed to the creditors doesn’t change in that scenario. The screw up (assuming the market recognizes it) would destroy value for the equity holders. Another way to think about total enterprise value is that there are two groups of
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Parent is referring to total enterprise value, which is the right way to compare the value of businesses with different amounts of leverage. Imagine if you bought a restaurant for $100 cash, and I bought an identical restaurant with $50 cas
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Both great tools! Evidence is aimed at teams who would prefer to build their analytics infrastructure primarily with SQL, rather than python. Evidence also includes nice features for building multi-page information architectures (paramateri
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Just checked it out briefly, that looks like it's aiming to solve the same problem -- do you know if it's open source?
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Redbean seems pretty ingenious, albeit totally over my head. I will take a more detailed look when I have some time. Thanks for sharing!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Awesome, thank you! It's on the list!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Issue opened! https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/94
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    A lot of people have told us that they have done some flavour of this. We think that’s a good thing!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    For real. The jump to svelte kit happened when this was just a hobby project, but I’m glad we did it.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    swyx! Absolutely, we are using mdsvex, and we owe you a beer! You rock.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thanks for taking a look and for the kind words. Absolutely, a great PDF export is on the roadmap, and raises a whole raft of tricky issues. Just an aside, but one of the other features Sean and I really liked in R markdown was the ability
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thanks for checking it out! I agree that the developer experience of a notebook is great. We think we’re going to be able to replicate the parts of that dev experience that we really like. We’re particularly interested in building some tool
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Haha thank you! Unfortunately I think a lot of people are suffering under the status quo.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    I would buy one. These are gorgeous.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    We haven't set that up, but it's a good idea. It really would help w/ modularity to have re-usable scripts parked somewhere in your project. I've opened an issue to track this.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thank you! We have actually heard this from quite a few people. We now know of at least four companies that have at one point or another built their reporting systems in a similar way.
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Haha In production, queries only run at 'build time', and we bake out static outputs to serve to your users. We mainly do this for performance reasons, but there isn't a connection to your db in the production outputs. Today,
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    We'll get you someday ;)
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thanks Louis!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Look at that! Yeah, I love it. That's exactly what I was thinking of. Trino is on the to-do list!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    You have cut straight to the heart of a pretty interesting problem that we are still thinking through. You are exactly right, right now this is pure front-end. That's intentional, and there's a lot that we like about that approach
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    There's a discussion earlier in the thread about static vs. live data. I think there are some interesting things we could do here. There are also some other great products doing data diffing, like datafold that might fit the bill here.