January 2022 Summaries

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a business dashboard using Budibase, the Cube REST API, and a data store like PostgreSQL. The end result is a dashboard that answers typical questions for an e-commerce business, such as sales trends over time and customer segment behavior. Budibase is used as a low-code app-building platform to create a responsive web application with minimal effort. Cube is used as an analytics API layer to provide analytical capabilities and query acceleration, allowing developers to build more complex applications without requiring extensive man-hours. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement the dashboard using Budibase and Cube, including creating a data schema, defining measures and dimensions, and connecting the dashboard to a database. The resulting application can be used to display sales trends, customer behavior, and other business insights in an easy-to-understand format.

The Cube community continued to grow and thrive in 2021, with over 4,500 community members on Slack, a launched community forum, and numerous contributions to the open-source project's GitHub repo. The community played a significant role in the product's development and was instrumental in the launch of Cube Cloud. In 2022, the team plans to build on the community's growth by expanding support for new databases and data analytics tools, improving ease-of-use, and enhancing features like query tracing and metrics catalog. The company is looking forward to a brighter year ahead and values the contributions of its community members.

Creating a metrics dashboard with Appsmith and Cube is an efficient way for teams to display internal metrics, saving time and money on development. Appsmith provides drag-and-drop widgets to create web applications without requiring developer knowledge, while Cube serves as a centralized back-end metrics layer connecting to various data sources and allowing users to access the data through APIs. By using Appsmith and Cube, developers can save time by not needing to be experts in both tools, increasing productivity, and providing a low-code platform for creating custom dashboards without requiring extensive development knowledge.