twilight ventures
tools for data explorers
The export nobody dared open, the log that goes on for miles, the vault a running app still holds, the heap a machine left behind when it stopped. Somebody made all of these and walked away, and the record is what remains of whatever happened down there. As above, so below: the files beneath reveal the truth beyond a glance at the system that wrote them. Reading them is free in the plugins and the extensions. Processing them is the part we charge for. Dive deeper into the abyss, if you dare.
At twilight ventures we make tools for data explorers. Each table viewer opens a file in the IDE, the editor, a Confluence page or a Jira issue, and loads only the rows you are looking at, so the first page of a 10 GB Parquet dataset, a multi-gigabyte log or a 500,000-row sheet is up while the rest is still being read. From there the file can be searched, sorted and filtered, profiled, exported, converted and compared, as far as each product goes. None of the products sends a file's contents anywhere. The plugins and extensions read the file on your machine, and the two Atlassian apps read an attachment inside your own Atlassian site, as the person viewing it, with nothing leaving that site; the security policy has the detail.