Evidence

On Dec 5th, at Evidence Lab #001, we presented our roadmap for the first time. We're excited to publicly share what's next for Evidence! Open Source 1. Look and Feel: Custom Themes and Dark Mode (Now available!) 2. Self Service: Pivot Table & SQL Console 3. Interactivity: Cross Filters & Sharable Links 4. DX: VSCode Prop Autocomplete and Sources UI Cloud 5. CI tooling: Deploy Previews & Email Notifications 6. Multi-tenant apps & RBAC: Config & RLS 7. Platform Improvements: UI Revamp & Scheduled emails 8. Region Expansion: EU region for Evidence Cloud

🚀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: The Evolution of Business Intelligence: From Monolithic to Composable Architecture The BI landscape is undergoing a fascinating transformation. In my latest article, I explore how BI architecture has evolved through several key phases: 📊 Traditional BI: Monolithic systems with tightly coupled components and heavy infrastructure requirements. 🔗 Bottomless BI: Rise of Lightweight BI tools like Apache Superset (Preset ), Redash and Metabase in mid 2010s that eliminated dedicated backend servers, relying instead on connected source engines. 🧩 Headless BI: Introduction of universal semantic layers such as Cube and MetricFlow, enabling consistent metrics across different visualisation tools. 💻 BI-as-Code: A recent trend in the past few years, bringing software engineering practices to BI development with established tools like Streamlit, Evidence and Rill Data, and newcomers such as Quary (YC W24), Observable and Vizro. 🚀 Latest Trend - Embedded Analytics: Integration of high-performance query engines like DuckDB and Apache DataFusion with lightweight BI tools, enabling: 👉 Zero-copy integration with Apache Arrow 👉 Direct data lake and Lakehouse (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta) querying 👉 Native federated query support 👉 True architectural composability BI Vendors like Omni, GoodData, Rill Data, Observable and Cube are leading this transformation. Read the full article shared in the comments section to learn more.

⭐ My favourite DataTech finds of 2024 ⭐ I got back into the data game at the beginning of this year and started Outlier, and one of the fun things that's allowed me to do is dive back into the data vendor ecosystem. Here are some of the more impressive technologies I've come across. Evidence - "A lightweight framework for building data apps" I'm particularly excited for them to start rolling out improvements to their cloud product. Hashboard - "BI that will make you love data again" A BI tool that recognises the importance of the developer experience. Tinybird - "Data infrastructure for software teams" Building real-time data APIs has never been so easy. Estuary - "The fastest, most reliable ETL" A data movement tool that's affordable and built by people who really know what they're doing. Keel - "Build the systems that power your operations" A little tangential to our space, Keel is what I wanted Retool to be like. What am I missing? What're you excited about for 2025 and beyond? On Thursday I'm going to post about where I think we still have big gaps...

⭐ My favourite DataTech finds of 2024 ⭐ I got back into the data game at the beginning of this year and started Outlier, and one of the fun things that's allowed me to do is dive back into the data vendor ecosystem. Here are some of the more impressive technologies I've come across. Evidence - "A lightweight framework for building data apps" I'm particularly excited for them to start rolling out improvements to their cloud product. Hashboard - "BI that will make you love data again" A BI tool that recognises the importance of the developer experience. Tinybird - "Data infrastructure for software teams" Building real-time data APIs has never been so easy. Estuary - "The fastest, most reliable ETL" A data movement tool that's affordable and built by people who really know what they're doing. Keel - "Build the systems that power your operations" A little tangential to our space, Keel is what I wanted Retool to be like. What am I missing? What're you excited about for 2025 and beyond? On Thursday I'm going to post about where I think we still have big gaps...

Themes and dark mode have arrived in Evidence. Design incredible-looking data products with just a few lines of config. https://lnkd.in/gVZgJtkd

We're running our first ever in-person event in NYC next week, at 7pm on Thu 5th: Evidence Lab #001 - NYC We'll be doing: - A sneak preview of what's coming up on the roadmap - Q&A - Dinner and drinks We have a couple more spots available - to apply, sign up here: https://lnkd.in/grURJBJG

Friday project: Sean and I are working on bringing autocomplete to Evidence component props

DuckDB-GSheets v0.0.3 is out, big thanks to Alex Monahan for his help! The power is truly terrifying! https://duckdb-gsheets.com

Today, we're launching Commercial Support Plans Perfect for teams needing expert guidance on self-hosted Evidence apps, and a great way to support the ongoing development of Evidence. https://lnkd.in/gY7ZuyNu

Today is a special day! https://lnkd.in/e-9qrzZM