Full Review of Cube

We put Cube.dev through its paces against AWS Athena — modeling 27 tables, breaking the semantic layer on hard measures, building dashboards, and…

Jul 22 • ajo

Semantic Layer Middleware is Not Enough

Even Cube (formerly CubeJS) has pivoted to adding Workbooks, Dashboards,and Chat interfaces

Jul 16 • ajo

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Full Review of Power BI

A review of Power BI for the objective of enabling Self service analytics. This is the second in a series on BI tools and semantic layers we are doing.

Jul 13

Fable 5's Take on Universal Semantic Layer

Claude had access to Strata's counter position on this topic. So your prompt response might differ.

Jul 5 • ajo

Full Review of Metabase

This is a first in a series of articles evaluating BI tools and standalone semantic layers.

Jul 3 • ajo

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June 2026

Is It All About The Tools Now?

LLMs turn out to be remarkably smart about using tools at the right time.

Jun 3 • ajo

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March 2026

Okay, I'm Vibing

From net neutral to net positive ROI with LLMs

Mar 9 • ajo

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December 2025

The Illusion of Productivity with LLMs

LLMs are great for narrow tasks, but struggle with systems

Dec 30, 2025 • ajo

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Understanding Business Intelligence Users

On personas and diverging skill sets that lead to poor UX over time

Dec 8, 2025 • ajo

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November 2025

Super Bundling of Business Intelligence Tools

Every new feature seem to degrade the overall product

Nov 6, 2025 • ajo

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October 2025

What is up with Looker?

The strange story of how Looker became synonymous with Semantic Layers.

Oct 13, 2025 • ajo

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August 2025

dwh - Ruby Gem for Analytics

Open source gem for connecting to popular data warehouses

Aug 22, 2025 • ajo