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Data Apps: When Standard Dashboards Can't Build What You Actually Need

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Data Apps: When Standard Dashboards Can't Build What You Actually Need

QuickBooks Custom Reporting: Where QB Breaks Down (And What Actually Fixes It)

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QuickBooks Custom Reporting: Where QB Breaks Down (And What Actually Fixes It)

Power BI Alternatives: Matched to Why You're Actually Leaving

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Power BI Alternatives: Matched to Why You're Actually Leaving

Data Stack vs Data Platform: Why AI Forces the Choice

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Data Stack vs Data Platform: Why AI Forces the Choice

How to Build a Data Foundation at Series A Without Hiring a Data Engineer

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How to Build a Data Foundation at Series A Without Hiring a Data Engineer

Redshift Alternatives: An Honest Guide for Teams Running on AWS

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Redshift Alternatives: An Honest Guide for Teams Running on AWS

Best Tableau Alternatives in 2026: Matched to Why You're Actually Leaving

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Best Tableau Alternatives in 2026: Matched to Why You're Actually Leaving

Fivetran Alternatives That Account for Engineering Time (and One That Doesn't Need Any)

March 19, 2026

Fivetran Alternatives That Account for Engineering Time (and One That Doesn't Need Any)

Databricks Alternatives: Most Companies Are Searching for the Wrong Thing

March 19, 2026

Databricks Alternatives: Most Companies Are Searching for the Wrong Thing

Data Analysis for Startups: What to Actually Prioritize When Your Founder Says 'Figure It Out'

March 18, 2026

Data Analysis for Startups: What to Actually Prioritize When Your Founder Says 'Figure It Out'

HubSpot Data Warehouse: Setup, Tools, and What to Build First

March 13, 2026

HubSpot Data Warehouse: Setup, Tools, and What to Build First

Best BI Tools for Startups in 2026 (and the Hidden Costs Nobody Mentions)

March 11, 2026

Best BI Tools for Startups in 2026 (and the Hidden Costs Nobody Mentions)

What Is a Data Platform? The 2026 Definition That Actually Matters

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What Is a Data Platform? The 2026 Definition That Actually Matters

The Best MySQL ETL Tools in 2026: A Decision Framework

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The Best MySQL ETL Tools in 2026: A Decision Framework

Metabase vs Definite: When "Free BI" Costs More Than You Think

March 7, 2026

Metabase vs Definite: When "Free BI" Costs More Than You Think

The Best ETL Tools for Salesforce in 2026: A Decision Framework

March 4, 2026

The Best ETL Tools for Salesforce in 2026: A Decision Framework

Can the Modern Data Stack Handle AI Analytics?

March 3, 2026

Can the Modern Data Stack Handle AI Analytics?

The Real Cost of SQL Server as a Data Warehouse

February 28, 2026

The Real Cost of SQL Server as a Data Warehouse

The Best ETL Tools for PostgreSQL in 2026: A Decision Framework

February 24, 2026

The Best ETL Tools for PostgreSQL in 2026: A Decision Framework

Analytics Tools for Startups: Build a Stack or Adopt a Platform?

February 22, 2026

Analytics Tools for Startups: Build a Stack or Adopt a Platform?

How to Build Cohort LTV Analysis for Your E-Commerce Store

February 19, 2026

How to Build Cohort LTV Analysis for Your E-Commerce Store

How to Build Unified Google Ads Reporting Across Multiple MCC Accounts

February 17, 2026

How to Build Unified Google Ads Reporting Across Multiple MCC Accounts

How to Build Unified Analytics Across Multiple Shopify Stores

February 17, 2026

How to Build Unified Analytics Across Multiple Shopify Stores

RevOps Analytics in HubSpot: The Complete Guide

February 16, 2026

RevOps Analytics in HubSpot: The Complete Guide

Snowflake Alternatives for Startups: Which Data Warehouse Should You Actually Use?

February 15, 2026

Snowflake Alternatives for Startups: Which Data Warehouse Should You Actually Use?

Snowflake's Time Travel Tax

February 14, 2026

Snowflake's Time Travel Tax

How Much Does a B2B SaaS Data Stack Cost: A Complete Guide

February 12, 2026

How Much Does a B2B SaaS Data Stack Cost: A Complete Guide

Snowflake For Startups? Think Again.

February 11, 2026

Snowflake For Startups? Think Again.

The Modern Data Stack is Dead. Here's What's Replacing It.

February 10, 2026

The Modern Data Stack is Dead. Here's What's Replacing It.

HubSpot + Salesforce Analytics: Why Your Reports Don't Match (And How to Fix It)

February 9, 2026

HubSpot + Salesforce Analytics: Why Your Reports Don't Match (And How to Fix It)

Snowflake vs Definite: Which Data Warehouse Is Right for Your Startup?

February 8, 2026

Snowflake vs Definite: Which Data Warehouse Is Right for Your Startup?

Best Data Warehouse for Startups (2026): Why the Warehouse Is the Cheap Part

February 7, 2026

Best Data Warehouse for Startups (2026): Why the Warehouse Is the Cheap Part

DuckDB and DuckLake: Why We Bet the Company on the Duck Stack

February 6, 2026

DuckDB and DuckLake: Why We Bet the Company on the Duck Stack

Microsoft Fabric Alternative: Why Teams Are Looking Beyond the Hype

February 6, 2026

Microsoft Fabric Alternative: Why Teams Are Looking Beyond the Hype

What Startups Can Automate with AI in 2026

February 5, 2026

What Startups Can Automate with AI in 2026

PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse: When It Works, When It Doesn’t (2026)

February 4, 2026

PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse: When It Works, When It Doesn’t (2026)

How to Estimate Cloud Data Warehouse Costs in 2026 (And Why It's the Wrong Question)

February 3, 2026

How to Estimate Cloud Data Warehouse Costs in 2026 (And Why It's the Wrong Question)

Your Salesforce Data Warehouse Doesn't Need Five Vendors

February 3, 2026

Your Salesforce Data Warehouse Doesn't Need Five Vendors

Databricks vs Snowflake: Which Data Platform Should You Actually Use?

February 2, 2026

Databricks vs Snowflake: Which Data Platform Should You Actually Use?

The All-in-One Data Platform Buyer's Guide for Startups in 2026

February 1, 2026

The All-in-One Data Platform Buyer's Guide for Startups in 2026

Stripe Sigma: Good Enough, or Time for an Alternative?

January 30, 2026

Stripe Sigma: Good Enough, or Time for an Alternative?

How Startups Should Build Their Data Stack in 2026

January 27, 2026

How Startups Should Build Their Data Stack in 2026

AI Data Analysis: Why Most Tools Fail (And What Actually Works)

January 17, 2026

AI Data Analysis: Why Most Tools Fail (And What Actually Works)

I Built a Claude Code Skill to Search My Past Sessions

January 14, 2026

I Built a Claude Code Skill to Search My Past Sessions

Startup Data Strategy for Humans: Why Your Biggest Data Challenge Isn't Technical

January 7, 2026

Startup Data Strategy for Humans: Why Your Biggest Data Challenge Isn't Technical

How to Connect Google Sheets to Definite with AI

January 6, 2026

How to Connect Google Sheets to Definite with AI

How to Trace Data Lineage in Definite

December 10, 2025

How to Trace Data Lineage in Definite

Getting Started with Definite in Under 30 Minutes

December 8, 2025

Getting Started with Definite in Under 30 Minutes

"qq" is cooked: @Fi brings Conversational Analytics in Slack

November 19, 2025

"qq" is cooked: @Fi brings Conversational Analytics in Slack

The Founder's Guide to CRM Analytics in Attio

October 8, 2025

The Founder's Guide to CRM Analytics in Attio

An Intro to Agentic Analytics (and Why You'll Never Look Back)

September 8, 2025

An Intro to Agentic Analytics (and Why You'll Never Look Back)

Getting Reliable LLM-to-SQL Results with CubeJS and Constrained Decoding

August 27, 2025

Getting Reliable LLM-to-SQL Results with CubeJS and Constrained Decoding

Definite Raises $10M to Deliver an AI-Native Data Platform in Minutes

August 21, 2025

Definite Raises $10M to Deliver an AI-Native Data Platform in Minutes

Tracking AI Agent Performance with Logfire and Ducklake

August 11, 2025

Tracking AI Agent Performance with Logfire and Ducklake

Introducing Python support in Definite

August 5, 2025

Introducing Python support in Definite

Introducing target-ducklake: A Meltano Target For Ducklake

July 18, 2025

Introducing target-ducklake: A Meltano Target For Ducklake

Analyzing data in ChatGPT like your job depends on it

June 4, 2025

Analyzing data in ChatGPT like your job depends on it

DuckLake: This is your Data Lake on ACID

June 2, 2025

DuckLake: This is your Data Lake on ACID

Calculating MRR From Raw Stripe Data Is Tricky: Here’s How We Did It

May 1, 2025

Calculating MRR From Raw Stripe Data Is Tricky: Here’s How We Did It

Top 10 DuckDB Extensions to Tell Your Spouse About

March 14, 2025

Top 10 DuckDB Extensions to Tell Your Spouse About

Understanding smallpond and 3FS: A Clear Guide

March 2, 2025

Understanding smallpond and 3FS: A Clear Guide

Your First Data Hire: A Practical Guide

February 14, 2025

Your First Data Hire: A Practical Guide

A Duck Takes Flight

January 25, 2025

A Duck Takes Flight

5 Proven Strategies to Reduce Snowflake Costs Without Compromising Performance

November 12, 2024

5 Proven Strategies to Reduce Snowflake Costs Without Compromising Performance

How Snowflake's Pricing Works: A Guide to Estimating and Optimizing Costs

November 8, 2024

How Snowflake's Pricing Works: A Guide to Estimating and Optimizing Costs

Top 5 Snowflake Alternatives for Cost-Effective Data Warehousing in 2024

August 29, 2024

Top 5 Snowflake Alternatives for Cost-Effective Data Warehousing in 2024

Running Iceberg and Serverless DuckDB in AWS

August 13, 2024

Running Iceberg and Serverless DuckDB in AWS

Running Iceberg and Serverless DuckDB in Google Cloud

July 25, 2024

Running Iceberg and Serverless DuckDB in Google Cloud

Comparing Iceberg Query Engines

July 3, 2024

Comparing Iceberg Query Engines

Why Databricks paid $1B for a 40 person startup (Tabular)

June 27, 2024

Why Databricks paid $1B for a 40 person startup (Tabular)

How We Migrated Our Data Warehouse from Snowflake to DuckDB

May 30, 2024

How We Migrated Our Data Warehouse from Snowflake to DuckDB

Definite: The Missing Card Catalog for Your S3 Data Library

April 14, 2024

Definite: The Missing Card Catalog for Your S3 Data Library

OverkiLLM: Thousands of LLM calls using Ollama to write an H1

April 9, 2024

OverkiLLM: Thousands of LLM calls using Ollama to write an H1

Query any ducking thing: postgres, parquet, json, csv, and Google Sheets

April 5, 2024

Query any ducking thing: postgres, parquet, json, csv, and Google Sheets

Is it possible to use Snowflake as a vector store?

October 17, 2023

Is it possible to use Snowflake as a vector store?

Simple (and free) attribution tracking in 200 lines of JavaScript

September 26, 2023

Simple (and free) attribution tracking in 200 lines of JavaScript

Announcing Definite: 10x faster analytics

February 21, 2023

Announcing Definite: 10x faster analytics

The Best Data Analytics Tools to Work With in 2024: Top Solutions Reviewed

August 26, 2024

The Best Data Analytics Tools to Work With in 2024: Top Solutions Reviewed

The Best Fractional Data Teams for Startups, E-commerce, and More

February 21, 2025

The Best Fractional Data Teams for Startups, E-commerce, and More

December 31, 2025

The Best Looker Alternatives for Modern Analytics | Definite

How to Build a Data Visualization Tool

January 10, 2025

How to Build a Data Visualization Tool

How to Choose the Right Data Analysis Tool for Your Company

September 24, 2024

How to Choose the Right Data Analysis Tool for Your Company

Databricks vs Snowflake: Choosing Your Data Powerhouse in 2024

September 6, 2024

Databricks vs Snowflake: Choosing Your Data Powerhouse in 2024

Definite vs Databricks: A Comprehensive Comparison

September 16, 2024

Definite vs Databricks: A Comprehensive Comparison

Definite vs Snowflake: A Comprehensive Comparison of Two Data Platforms

September 19, 2024

Definite vs Snowflake: A Comprehensive Comparison of Two Data Platforms

Domo Alternatives

December 30, 2025

Domo Alternatives

Is DuckDB Open Source?

January 10, 2025

Is DuckDB Open Source?

DuckDB vs Trino: The Full Comparison

February 20, 2026

DuckDB vs Trino: The Full Comparison

What are ETL Tools in Data Warehousing?

January 10, 2025

What are ETL Tools in Data Warehousing?

Why Your Fivetran Bill Just Doubled (And What to Do About It)

April 15, 2025

Why Your Fivetran Bill Just Doubled (And What to Do About It)

Fivetran + dbt: The Myth of 'Open Data Infrastructure'

October 15, 2025

Fivetran + dbt: The Myth of 'Open Data Infrastructure'

OKR vs KPI vs Balanced Scorecard

April 9, 2025

OKR vs KPI vs Balanced Scorecard

Open-Source Alternatives to Snowflake

March 11, 2025

Open-Source Alternatives to Snowflake

Power BI vs Tableau

March 1, 2026

Power BI vs Tableau

Redshift vs Snowflake vs Definite

February 18, 2026

Redshift vs Snowflake vs Definite

Your AI Analyst Is Only as Good as Your Metric Definitions

February 6, 2026

Your AI Analyst Is Only as Good as Your Metric Definitions

What is a Semantic Layer in Data Warehousing?

January 10, 2025

What is a Semantic Layer in Data Warehousing?

Top AI Text-to-SQL Tools

January 31, 2025

Top AI Text-to-SQL Tools

Types of Dimensions in Data Warehouse

January 31, 2025

Types of Dimensions in Data Warehouse

What Is a Data Lakehouse?

April 1, 2025

What Is a Data Lakehouse?

What is Data Querying?

January 31, 2025

What is Data Querying?

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