Metrics layer tools
Reading about multiple projects on Twitter that provide a metrics layer against the database. For example - dbt metrics, Transform, Supergrain. Thoughts from what I make of it below.
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Node and Wire editors
This was prompted by looking at multiple tools for data exploration and analytics, for ex - Datablocks, Basis Data and more. A common substrate across many of these is an infinite canvas, where you write small bits of functionalities in nodes and then wire them together to model data flow. A visual workspace allows richer interactions and visual tooling that are hard to replicate with a text based IDE.