Post on 14-Apr-2017
HOW WE TURNED EVERYTHINGME INTO A DATA DRIVEN COMPANY
Hello, I’m Arik.
We’re geeks. YMMV.
Requirements:1. scalable2. fast3. easy to query (accessible)
Amazon Redshift
“Petabyte scale; massively parallel
Fully managed; zero admin…”
8TB total size of data*9 Nodes ClusterLoading new data every ~5 minutes~1500 query executions per day
One main fact table: fact_events
Step #2Give Everyone Access
BI TOOLS?
psql, SQL Workbench
CSV Sharing
(hackathing!)
re:dash supports multiple data sources:PostgreSQLRedshiftMySQLBigQueryMongoDBInfluxDBGraphite
Everyone at the company is using re:dash at some capacity.
8K queries created to date, with >130 dashboards.
Over 25* companies using it & 24 contributors.
* Probably more. Not everyone reaches out to me.
Step #3Improve
Giving everyone raw access is only the first step, not the end of the road.
Working with SQL all the time -> repeating yourself.
Template Queries, Parameters
Alerts
Search & Discovery
Pandas, IPython integration
• Give everyone at the company access to the data
Make it easy (accessible)Avoid restrictions