Janet Hwu
jhwu.bsky.social
Janet Hwu
@jhwu.bsky.social
UX Designer @rilldata.com
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We have our Data Talks on the Rocks series interviewing founders and creators of open source technologies, but now it’s time to dive deep with our users 🙌

In our first episode of our Data Driven Leaders series, we interview Kat Tomlin, Director of Business Operations at Disco.
June 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So excited to announce the debut of Canvas dashboards! The Rill community will have more flexibility than ever before with how to visualize their metrics.
📢Introducing Canvas dashboards📢

Rill’s signature Explore dashboards have always had powerful slice & dice capabilities, but its layout was highly opinionated.

With Canvas, you control how metrics are presented - creating layouts that are purpose-built for your use cases.
April 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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A new blog post is out today about «Shifting left».
Rill | What
By shifting left, data teams can create more maintainable, performant, and reliable data systems while reducing duplication and inconsistency throughout the data stack.
www.rilldata.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Just published: Ever had to «Scale beyond Postgres»?

You may have started with a simple ETL pipeline and crunched critical business logic into useful dashboards, but speed and scale didn't grow with data at some point, and it's the concurrent user.

✨ Below are some highlights from the article.
Rill | Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database
This blog explores how real-time databases address critical analytical requirements. We highlight the differences between cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery, legacy OLAP databases like ...
www.rilldata.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Rill informing insights in the wild!
Blogged: Exploring UK Environment Agency data with @duckdb.org and @rilldata.com

rmoff.net/2025/02/28/e...

#dataBS
March 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Low-latency user experiences make all the difference in data applications, especially BI dashboards. Gmail's creator made the 100ms rule, arguing that 600ms is too slow.

But why? Today's article in collaboration with @medriscoll.com is about «Why Pivot Tables Never Die», answering these questions.
Rill | Why Pivot Tables Never Die
This blog is about how the simplest tools often solve the hardest problems. Simon Spati explores why pivot tables have endured for over decades, how they evolved in the AI era, and why they might be t...
www.rilldata.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Will be waking up early Friday to watch this live streamed from Amsterdam!
Rill is proud to sponsor DuckCon6 on Friday!

@medriscoll.com will also present on Rill's SQL-based metrics layer powered by @duckdb.org. Recognizing the wide popularity of SQL & DuckDB’s SQL dialect in particular, we developed a metrics layer that declares its metrics entirely with SQL expressions.
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It took 5 minutes to create this dashboard with @rilldata.com's AI auto-generate features. Impressive @medriscoll.com!
December 15, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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2024 was a exciting year for Rill. We welcomed new team members, launched more features than we can count, and together with our customers solved interesting and challenging data problems.

@mindspank.bsky.social shares his top 5 features we shipped this year

www.rilldata.com/blog/2024-pr...
Rill | 2024 Product Recap - 5 Top Features
In 2024, we launched more features than we can count and together with our customers solved interesting and challenging data problems. Alex Thor, Product Manager, shares his top 5 features we shipped ...
www.rilldata.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Check out this @rilldata.bsky.social dashboard with insights drawn from recent usage data from
@bsky.app ! Pretty cool how quickly @medriscoll.com was able to build this! ui.rilldata.com/demo/rill-bl...
ui.rilldata.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM