New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best way to approach user-facing analytics

Ask HN: Best way to approach user-facing analytics
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I’m looking for advice on technical strategies for user-facing analytics features (think real-time customizable dashboard). I’ve ended up in a situation where I want to design some analytics dashboards for end users that display aggregates/historical data for a number of years. The queries I want to run take way too long to run on-the-fly so I’ve resorted to pre-computing the data I care about on a schedule. This approach works fine but it’s not real time and it adds some friction to introducing new features/views (every new feature requires backfilling years worth of data). I’m curious if others have better strategies for developing analytics software like this that’s real-time, responsive, and quick to iterate on? OLAP DBs like clickhouse? Reverse ETL? Better OLTP indexing?

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