[janee]

Ah I was looking for exactly this the other day. I'm try to build a git based interface to our BI tool so that we can get config for our reports in source control instead of configuration in a db.

Was looking for something to read json files which will house the config via SQL, i.e. a human readable db as an alternative to what the BI tool is using for it's config persistence.

Will give DuckDB a go, thanks for posting!

[amcaskill]

I’m working on an open source BI alternative called Evidence which works nicely with version control and CI/CD.

If that’s of interest, you can read our launch HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781

One of our community members has built a pretty cool Duck DB + dbt + evidence data stack that you can run entirely in GitHub codespaces. He’s calling it modern data stack in a box.

You can see that repo here: https://github.com/matsonj/nba-monte-carlo

[Jgrubb]

Are you talking about metabase by any chance?

[janee]

Haha indeed! I've started with a very basic Ruby api client that can read and create dashboards.

My plan is to poc a tool that allows you to edit metabase config as files and secondly something that can replicate cloud instances to other environments like local docker image or staging instance