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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?
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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. ?
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 ...
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!
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!
