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News & essays.
Announcements and essays from the Emolysis team: what Emolysis is, how it works, and where it stands. Releases are announced here first.
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Where did this number come from?
Every Emolysis chart says whether its rows are illustrative, a sample or live, and which metric definition it shows. Why, and what that does not prove.
By Emolysis team
8 min read
One shape, three dialects: SCD Type 2
The same SCD Type 2 history on Databricks, Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric. Two null-safe comparisons, one transaction rule and one set of golden cases.
By Emolysis team
6 min read
Averages don't add: re-combining grouped reads
A chart over a pre-aggregated table can average the averages and draw a wrong number. How Emolysis re-combines grouped reads exactly, and where that stops.
By Emolysis team
4 min read
Bring your own key
Why the Emolysis Free plan is bring your own key, what the model provider sees, and what the paid plans and their model usage will add.
By Emolysis team
4 min read
Dashboards from a question
Ask a business question; Emolysis is designed to build the tested gold table behind the answer, chart it and share it as a link you control.
By Emolysis team
4 min read
Tests before production
Why nothing in Emolysis is designed to reach your platform until its golden tests pass on DuckDB, and what golden tests do not prove.
By Emolysis team
4 min read
The ten pipeline shapes
Most production data engineering follows about ten shapes. Why Emolysis is designed to start every pipeline from a tested template for one of them.
By Emolysis team
4 min read
Why local-first data engineering
Iterate on your machine with DuckDB, prove the logic with golden tests, deploy only what passes. What local-first means, and what it does not.
By Emolysis team
5 min read
Introducing Emolysis
We are building Emolysis, a local-first coding agent for data engineering and BI, starting with Databricks. What it will do and where it stands.
By Emolysis team