--- title: How Immersive Translate Built a Lean, Low-Cost Analytics... description: Immersive Translate, a bilingual translation browser extension, needed product analytics without building a heavy traditional big data stack like Kafka, Spark,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-immersive-translate-built-a-lean-low-cost-analytics-stack-gfcnscujk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Immersive Translate Built a Lean, Low-Cost Analytics Stack | daily.dev og:description: Immersive Translate, a bilingual translation browser extension, needed product analytics without building a heavy traditional big data stack like Kafka, Spark,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-immersive-translate-built-a-lean-low-cost-analytics-stack-gfcnscujk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GFcnSCUJK.png og:image:alt: How Immersive Translate Built a Lean, Low-Cost Analytics Stack og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Immersive Translate Built a Lean, Low-Cost Analytics Stack **[Databend Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/databend)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Immersive Translate, a bilingual translation browser extension, needed product analytics without building a heavy traditional big data stack like Kafka, Spark, Hive, and Airflow. Instead, the team writes product event logs as NDJSON files to S3 and uses Databend Cloud to ingest that data via scheduled tasks and query it with standard SQL. This gave them event-level detail, SQL-based ad hoc analysis, predictable storage-compute costs, BI dashboard support, and time travel, all with a proof of concept reportedly completed in one afternoon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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