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thomas_brittain · 01-21-2022

Why do you hate us so much? Fitt’s Law and UXps. Yes, I realize I forgot a “T,” but Looker forums won’t let me correct a typo in the title. Why, why do you hate us?

thomas_brittain · 12-24-2021

We self-host Looker (“on-prem”) and have encountered several issues where Looker’s performance degraded into 50s response times per page load. We eventually identified the problem as being the bandwidth between the databases and our Looker instance. ...

thomas_brittain · 10-05-2020

I’ve recently been working on moving our custom developers’ tools to an app in Looker using the Looker Extension Framework. As I’m building the layout, I’ve noticed a lot of the Looker Components are marked as “Coming Soon.” Do we know when? I’m tryi...

thomas_brittain · 09-23-2020

Hello wonderful Looker people, Is there anyone else out there who is self-hosting their Looker instances and willing to share best-practices, horror stories, or anything else regarding the challenges of self-hosting? Remember, this is for posterity. ...

thomas_brittain · 09-07-2022

Hey @Dawid,I appreciate that. But we didn’t miss the docs, and though we had to make some changes, none of our errors were due to stricter LookML parsing. Looker support had us check several times. ?

thomas_brittain · 09-06-2022

Just adding here, we have had numerous problems with both the Old LookML Runtime and the New LookML Runtime which seemed to start when the New LookML Runtime went beta. One issue completely crippled our system (66k queries a day), because the LookML ...

thomas_brittain · 12-27-2021

Hey @topato!Actually, I’m a data engineer. I prefer TypeScript for solving such problems. Unfortunately, my fault here was ignorance. The Puppeter framework looks much more robust and easier to use than Selenium. Thank you greatly for sharing.Cheers!

thomas_brittain · 12-24-2021

One more tool for the on-prem admin tool-bag.Looker UI response time testing with Python and Selenium

thomas_brittain · 12-14-2021

For other on-prem Looker admins out there, I wrote a Python script for downloading specific Looker versions to make it easier to apply patches. Hope it helps.Python script for download specific JARsCheers!

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