Dice Dev launches hosted cloud model of open supply analytics API Dice.js

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Cube Dev, the core developer and business firm behind the open supply analytics API platform Cube.js, has launched the hosted cloud model of its service into normal availability.

Dice.js sits between the information warehouse and the appliance, giving builders the backend infrastructure to attach aggregated knowledge to visualizations. It suits into the broader huge knowledge expertise stack alongside knowledge ingestion and integration instruments, serving to builders at main firms comparable to IBM, Walmart, PayPal, Intuit, and F5 create enterprise intelligence dashboards or add visible analytics to their functions.

Whereas Dice.js dates again to 2016 and was launched beneath an open supply license three years later, the creators launched the business Dice Dev entity final 12 months to monetize the undertaking, recently raising $15.5 million to deliver its hosted cloud product to market.

Above: Dice.js: constructing a question and plotting the leads to developer playground

Beforehand, builders needed to provision their very own computing assets and use Docker or npm to put in Dice.js, that means that the corporate can be chargeable for monitoring its personal server efficiency and provisioning extra cluster servers as they scaled. With Cube Cloud, nonetheless, all builders have to do is join all their SQL knowledge sources and the Dice platform takes care of the remaining, constructing an API backend to funnel the information into an software.

“To construct an software that makes use of knowledge from a knowledge warehouse, a developer will usually design and preserve the logic and infrastructure they should request knowledge from a number of sources — a posh, and time-consuming course of,” Dice Dev cofounder and CEO Artyom Keydunov famous in a press launch. “Dice Cloud’s hosted infrastructure supplies companies with decreased engineering complexity, elevated reliability and efficiency, and radically shortened time to construct their knowledge functions.”

For now, Dice Cloud helps AWS and Google Cloud, with Azure help arriving later in 2021.