Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it)

Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it) For a large part of my career I've been building or buying analytics tools. At the DailyMail I built a real-time dashboard that helped grow traffic from 55M to 200M monthly uniques. At TES we built a data lake on Redshift with Looker powering self-service reporting across the entire business. At Infinitas we use Snowflake and PowerBI (which I will be glad to one day never use again). Through all of that — and a lot of time with Metabase, Superset, Redash, Mixpanel, Amplitude — one question has kept coming back: "How can I share self-service analytics with my customers in a scalable, secure and maintainable way?" This is what led me to build drizzle-cube, an open source embeddable semantic layer for TypeScript apps built on top of Drizzle ORM. I wrote about that journey here. Drizzle-cube lets you define analytics cubes on top of your existing Drizzle schemas — measures, dimensions, time dimensions, securi