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Blog post from Lightdash

Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Oliver Laslett
Word Count
412
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Summary

Lightdash, an open-core company, emphasizes the importance of developer experience, as the lines between contributors, users, and customers are often blurred. Recently, they introduced two improvements: more frequent, automated releases of Lightdash and faster production setups using helm charts. Automation of releases allows for smaller, frequent updates, enhancing developer satisfaction and delivering fixes and features to users quickly, while also minimizing regression bugs. The introduction of helm charts facilitates the quick installation and updating of Lightdash in Kubernetes, enabling users to secure their data and report bugs efficiently, with fixes rolled out in just two hours. This approach is also applied to manage their fully-managed Lightdash Cloud, ensuring robustness and reliability. Community feedback is encouraged, and Lightdash is actively seeking new team members.