Two weeks ago, we published v1 of our LLM SQL Generation Benchmark. Your feedback was generous, thoughtful, and sometimes brutally honest. Here's what we got wrong, what we got right (but didn’t explain), and how we’re improving the benchmark for round two. tbrd.co/llm-sql-rd2

We graded 19 LLMs on SQL. You graded us.

We benchmarked 19 LLMs on analytical SQL and the internet had thoughts. Here's a breakdown of your feedback, what we got wrong, what we got right (but didn’t explain), and how we’re improving the…

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One of the most popular crypto wallets in the world, Phantom, builds features with Tinybird to increase revenue and swaps by displaying trending tokens to end-users in milliseconds. Top quote from their Sr. Data Engineer ↓

Get to know your data's data. Exploratory Data Analysis in Tinybird -> tbrd.co/eda

Get to know your data's data - EDA in Tinybird

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) helps you understand the shape of your data. Here's how to get metadata on your data using Tinybird's new Explorations feature.

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How could I have missed it @tinybird.co just solved the biggest pain point to self host @openstatus.dev with their local container 🥰 www.tinybird.co/docs/forward...

Having fun with @shadcn.com sidebar. Inspired by @tinybird.co.

Introducing Explorations, a chat UI for real-time analytics. youtu.be/pLI1xLxpUTw

Introducing Explorations, a conversational AI for real-time analytics

Explorations is an AI chat UI for Tinybird users to query and analyze up to billions of rows of real-time data using natural language. Here's a quick demo of...

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dbt shook up the data world in 2016. We like dbt. But it's not suited for real-time workloads (because data warehouses aren't suited for real-time workloads). Tinybird is a lot like dbt. But it's also different... 👀 tbrd.co/dbt-real-time

dbt in real-time

Tinybird is kind of like dbt, but for real-time use cases. Here's how and why you might migrate real-time API use cases from dbt to Tinybird.

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We just wrapped a blog series on counting 100 billion rows efficiently. The takeaway? Tinybird is fast and cost-effective when it comes to real-time aggregation at scale. Duh. Links to all 3 below ↓

Quick update on this ↓ Spots are filling up. We're ~75% full with a week to go. If you want to meet other #NewYorkCity devs building real-time data applications and learn from someone who has actually built and scaled the thing in prod, register now. Register: lu.ma/9wazu8zx

Where my Copenhagen devs at? Next Wednesday we're running a Tinybird Hackathon at the @BlastTV offices in Copenhagen 🇩🇰. Learn how Blast built their stats leaderboard for the game Deadlock, and get hands-on experience building real-time analytics APIs. Register here: lu.ma/wafkvnza

There are 6 functions to get a unique count in Tinybird: 1. uniq 2. uniqExact 3. uniqCombined 4. uniqCombined64 5. uniqHLL2 6. uniqTheta Each one has tradeoffs. Read how to combine them to efficiently count billions of unique IDs. ↓

The simplest way to count 100B unique IDs: Part 2

How to make a simple counter scale to trillions by using the right count functions paired with pre-aggregations

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💡 Quick win to improve the UX of your real-time analytics dashboards: Add an "Ask AI" feature. ↓ More info on how to do it in the 🧵

Just announced: Real-time Data Meetup with Tinybird, Estuary, and PlayOn! Sports. 3 talks. A room full of devs and data people. Free food and imbibements. April 29th at 6 PM ET FirstMark Capital - NYC Register here: lu.ma/9wazu8zx

Things that should be simple, but aren't: Canceling a database query from a web app client. Here's how we do it ⤑ tbrd.co/cancel-query

Own your data. Build your dashboard. A few months ago, we released a @vercel.com edge pinger to monitor your endpoints and store the responses in @tinybird.co: a lightweight OpenStatus version for you to self-host. Today, the UI is here. → logs.run/light

Building a real-time inventory system that actually works is harder than it looks. A thread on why 👇

You should instrument your application's LLM calls so you can analyze cost, usage, and adoption over time. Here are some example implementations in Python and TypeScript: tbrd.co/inst-llm

Instrument your LLM calls to analyze AI costs and usage

If you're building AI features, make sure to instrument your LLM calls so you can analyze costs, usage, and adoption. Here are a few examples in Python and TypeScript.

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Vibe code tools, not toys.

Vibe code tools, not toys.

How I vibe coded an internal anomaly detection system that had previously taken me months to build and deploy.

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The Vibeathon is on!!! Check out the prompt -> tbrd.co/vibeathon Commit your code by 12:48 PM ET. Win $3k! Va va va!!!!

You have 48 minutes to build something incredible.

Build something with Tinybird Forward in 48 minutes and win over $3000 in credits from your favorite dev tools.

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The Tinybird Forward Vibeathon begins in 1 hr. Build something in 48 minutes, win $3k. A few tips to prepare: 💡 Install the latest Tinybird CLI 💡 Start tb local 10 min. before 💡 Clone the repo (link below) 💡 Start prepping your prompts! Here's the repo -> tbrd.co/vibeathon Good luck!

You have 48 minutes to build something incredible.

Build something with Tinybird Forward in 48 minutes and win over $3000 in credits from your favorite dev tools.

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How to count 100,000,000,000 unique IDs in <100ms 👇 tbrd.co/100b-pt1

The simplest way to count 100 billion unique IDs: Part 1

How to build a simpler, real-time version of Reddit's complex system for counting unique IDs, involving Kafka, Redis, and Cassandra.

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Introducing Tinybird Self-Managed. Run Tinybird on your own infra (for free). youtu.be/kBsSoaElRCo

Run Tinybird anywhere with tb infra

You can now deploy Tinybird on your own self-managed cloud infrastructure. Learn how to configure your deployments to run Tinybird anywhere.More info: https:...

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Ask us anything about Tinybird Forward, starting in 15 minutes. gcal invite -> tbrd.co/fwd-ama youtube -> youtube.com/live/NIdIarNwm7U

You had me at "automatic schema migrations." Data deployments are no longer a mess of manual steps, risky schema changes & crossed fingers. With tb deploy, you get true CI/CD for your data - validation, migrations, backfills, and zero-downtime promotion in a SINGLE command. youtu.be/P3ZAgSlFJuQ

Automatic schema migrations with tb deploy

Migrating schemas in production used to be painful. Now, it's basically automatic. Learn how to use tb deploy and Tinybird's datafiles to automatic your live...

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Block off your calendar for the Tinybird Forward Vibeathon. Up for grabs: Over $3,000 in credits from Tinybird, Vercel, Resend, Dub, Plain, and more. Wednesday, March 26th from 12:00 - 12:48 PM ET. Add it to your google cal👇

Google Calendar - Tinybird Forward Vibeathon

Block your calendar for the Tinybird Forward Vibeathon. March 26th, 2025 from 12:00 PM ET to 12:48 PM ET.

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Writing tests sucks. Use LLMs to make it suck less.

Writing tests sucks. Use LLMs so it sucks less.

Testing is a fundamental software practice. But people don't do it in data because it's hard. We're making it less hard (and more fun).

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Use tb mock && tb test to generate production-like mock data and a suite of unit tests for your APIs.

Generate mock data and tests using LLMs

Nobody likes writing unit tests. Nobody likes building scripts to generate production-like mock data.With Tinybird Forward, let the LLMs handle the mundane. ...

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`tb dev` is the instant feedback loop for building your analytics backend. It's like `next dev`, but for data. Change your queries or change your data, and TInybird hot reloads your build in milliseconds. youtu.be/DCzYj9VKdHE

Hot reloads on your data project with tb dev

The software development workflow shouldn't change whether you're shipping a web app or a real-time data pipeline. Use tb dev to build your Tinybird data pro...

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Tinybird just launched Forward. Curious how it works? Ready to migrate? Want a feature rundown? Join our office hours and ask us anything about the new Tinybird. 🗓️ Add it to your Google Calendar: tbrd.co/fwd-ama

Tinybird Forward just launched. DX is 🔥. How about a hackathon? The winner gets over $3,000 in credits from Vercel, Tinybird, Resend, Dub, Plain, Blacksmith, Estuary, Knock, Trigger, LocalStack, and Bucket. But the rules are a bit... interesting... 👀👇

The Tinybird Forward Vibeathon - Win $3000 from your favorite devtools

Tinybird recently launched Forward, a revamped developer experience that makes shipping software with big data requirements faster and more intuitive than ev...

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