May 2023 Summaries

Rill has announced the public beta launch of Rill Cloud, a platform that allows software engineers to create dashboards directly from data lakes without needing a data warehouse, using a fast, DuckDB-powered environment. This tool enables engineers to connect to data sources like S3 or GCS buckets, build SQL-defined dashboards, and deploy them with a single command, making them shareable and continuously updated through GitHub integration. Rill Cloud offers engineers the ability to quickly transform SQL-based data models into interactive dashboards, streamlining the analytics process and reducing complexity by eliminating the need for separate ETL, data warehouse, and BI tools. The service is free for data sets under 10 GB during the beta, encouraging users to provide feedback and engage with the Rill community via Discord. This initiative aims to make data lake analytics more accessible and efficient, enhancing performance and user satisfaction by serving dashboards from in-memory data models.

During a webinar hosted by Rill, CEO Michael Driscoll and Hammond Guerin from Liftoff explored the evolution from Metamarkets to Rill, highlighting its role in interactive ad tech dashboards. Rill, which emerged after acquiring Metamarkets' IP from Snap, focuses on transforming large-scale data into fast, interactive dashboards, a critical asset for Liftoff's extensive mobile advertising operations that handle billions of data rows daily. Rill's strength lies in its ability to facilitate real-time analysis and time series comparisons, offering quick insights into current trends, which is particularly valuable for customer support teams who require immediate data access for client interactions. Despite the plethora of BI tools available, Rill distinguishes itself with its user-friendly interface, allowing analysts to perform week-over-week trend analyses efficiently. The webinar also teased upcoming features in Rill, aiming to simplify data integration processes and enhance user accessibility, with a beta launch promising easy dashboard creation from data lakes without extensive technical support.