Foreword

It's amazing to realize that Redash started five years ago. It started as a hackathon project, which was open sourced two months later. I remember getting excited about the first 5 companies that started using Redash.

Today, Redash is a company on its own, and there are over 4500 teams around the world using Redash, both the open source project and the SaaS service. Reading the first book on Redash is another important milestone in Redash’s maturity.

Alexander and Yael are great candidates to write the book. Alexander contributed code to the project and is very familiar with its internals, while Yael used it in various data projects for multiple companies since the early days of Redash.

I hope you will find this book useful, and it will help you start using Redash. You should also remember that Redash is an active open source project, which means it keeps evolving constantly. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the knowledge base along with the active community. Happy querying!

Arik Fraimovich,
Redash Creator/Founder