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Show HN: Metaframe – an open-source, CLI data catalog and documentation tool

6 pointsby ryialmost 5 years ago

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ryialmost 5 years ago
Some background: I&#x27;ve worked at companies that do and don&#x27;t have data catalogs&#x2F;data discovery tools, and I also spent some time trying to set existing open-source implementations up for friend&#x27;s startups. But it was surprisingly hard, especially to keep them stable. Considering most people only look at a few tables, I figured there must be a way to make a more lightweight stable version. And since I (and it sounds like a lot of my friends) spend a lot of time on the command-line, I figured I&#x27;d try to build out something there...<p>Enter metaframe! It&#x27;s easy to install (a single brew command), has a very quick search (leveraging fzf), allows for personal documentation, and uses a text-based backend (no kafka, janus, atlas, neo4j, sns queues), so your metadata and docs are easily accessible and even git versionable. Would love feedback&#x2F;thoughts.