Problem solved: How to extract data from a PDF Getting unstructured data neatly and accurately out of a PDF is a notorious pain. This triple-whammy tutorial breaks down pros, cons, and how-tos for three approaches to solving the problem.
Your guide to managing user permissions in Django An overview of permissions management in Django—plus tips for customizing tooling and access control beyond the built-in Django admin.
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes In 2007, a scrappy team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
How to build data products for the next decade OGM's Head of Analytics shares insights on building data products that stand the test of time.
Automation and the art of limiting SaaS platform reliance Our friends at Rappid discuss how they think about flexibility, continuity, and scalability when building solutions, and share a real-life example of managing a Zendesk migration with the help of Retool Workflows.
The best Elasticsearch GUIs—and when it’s better to build your own Should you build a custom Elasticsearch GUI or grab a solution off the shelf? We cover Kibana, Grafana, Elasticvue, and more in this overview.
announcement Retool Workflows is now generally available Retool Workflows is a visual automation product that lets you compose APIs and database queries with code (JavaScript or Python) to automate work.
case study How EcoPing uses Retool to make websites more environmentally friendly Dryden Williams, co-founder at EcoPing, shares how and why the company replaced a homegrown admin panel with Retool to accelerate product development.
Want to leverage LLMs in your engineering organization? Start here. If your team is just beginning to leverage LLMs, these learnings and best practices can help you use them effectively to ship thoughtful AI-powered apps, workflows, and features. Learnings and best practices to get developers
How Co:Create increased iteration speed 14x with Retool To reinvent loyalty programs for brands, Co:Create needed to rapidly iterate on their frontend UIs. Read more about how they accelerated development with Retool.
An engineering manager’s guide to AI security and governance Some foundational guidance and best practices to help you lead AI development responsibly.
Understanding the evolving value of AI in engineering Experts from LangChain, Pinterest, and Encamp share perspectives on building securely when shipping AI-enabled features, AI in open source, and how humans and machines can work together.
The tools for earthquake relief Zeplin's Ismail Ceylan shares how the ability to quickly build effective tools enabled support for critical mutual and disaster relief in Turkey after the devastating earthquakes in February 2023.
How to build the most popular internal tools You can build any business software in Retool, whether internal or customer-facing. These templates are favorites for helping developers move the finish line forward when building internal admin panels and dashboards.
How to rally engineering teams to build the internal tools you need Tips for non-technical teams on communicating the value of (efficiently) building bespoke operations software and internal tools.
How Doorstead doubled developer velocity with Retool The property-tech startup replaced an arsenal of spreadsheets with bespoke tools to power pricing, manage tenant requests, and more—and saved a whole lot of time along the way.
Building effective tools for customer support workflows CS teams often need bespoke tools to connect disparate systems and help them move quickly to address customer needs. These templates can help developers get them there.
tutorial CRUD operations in SQL: Examples and explanations A quick guide to using SQL statements to perform all four CRUD operations.
announcement Every product update we announced at Developer Day Read on for a full deep dive to see everything we announced at our first Dev Day, like Retool Database, more precise layout tools, more performant apps, support for GPT-4, Python, and more.
tutorial Retool + Census: Pull customer data into your internal tools on demand Learn how to set up real-time personalization in your Retool app with the new Census Entity API.
Building an SQL Server Admin Panel in Retool This post was created in collaboration with Anshuman Bhardwaj. Microsoft SQL Server is a hugely popular SQL database. It's ACID compliant, making it an excellent choice for financial applications, while its
Building a Snowflake admin panel in Retool This post was written with help from Gaurav Thalpati. Since the advent of products like Snowflake, more and more teams are leveraging data warehouses to store critical business data. Often, various teams—marketing,
Building a Redis admin panel in Retool This post was written with help from Amarachi Aso. Performance-conscious applications often utilize Redis to cache queried data. Occasionally, Redis might be implemented as the primary database or source of truth. Regardless of
Moving Retool's CI from Azure Pipelines to Buildkite with Kubernetes Learn from Retool infrastructure engineer Anna Yan why and how Retool moved our CI workloads to Buildkite using Kubernetes.
Top SQL GUIs for Your Data Warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) This post was written with help from Kovid Rathee. These days, most companies depend on one or several data warehouses, such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or Amazon Redshift, to store and analyze their
