Join Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions.Datacoves Platform OverviewBuild vs Buy Analytics Platform: Hosting Open-Source ToolsScale the benefits of Core with dbt CloudDagster vs. Airflow
Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-foundersSteep homepageNew in Steep : Cube and dbt Targets & BI - How hard can it be?
Mark is joined in this latest Drill to Detail episode by Tobias (Toby) Mao, CTO and co-Founder at Tobiko Data to talk about SQLGlot, the innovation culture at Airbnb and the data engineering challenges solved by SQLMesh.SQLGlot Introducing Minerva — Airbnb’s Metric Platform SQLMesh homepage Tobiko Cloud Running dbt in SQLMesh dbt Mesh Dlt (Data Load Tool)
Mark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups.Steinert Analytics homepageChristian Steinert LinkedIn Profile“Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process”“Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market.Ethan Aaron LinkedIn ProfilePortable.io Homepage“The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn)“You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn)“The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)
Mark Rittman is joined by returning guest David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev, to talk about Delphi Labs’ journey from a standalone data analytics chatbot to now becoming the basis of Cube’s new AI features within its composable semantic model product.Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David JayatillakeDrill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom KeydunovIntroducing the AI API and Chart Prototyping in Cube CloudA Practical Guide to Getting Started with Cube's AI APICube Rollup London : Bringing Cube Users Together
Mark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck to talk about the journey from big data to small data and bringing hybrid cloud execution to DuckDB.Big Data is DeadTeach Your Duckdb To FlyAnnouncing Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb From Your Laptop Into The CloudDrill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani
Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product Manager at Google Cloud to talk about Malloy, a new query language to replace SQL for analytics.Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd TabbMalloy : An experimental language for dataA Sequel to SQL? An introduction to MalloyWhy SQL syntax sucks, and why it mattersComposing with QueriesDimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy SpecialData is Rectangular and other Limiting MisconceptionsMalloy's Near Term Roadmap
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem and software defined assets, a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance.Introducing Software-Defined AssetsRethinking Orchestration as Reconciliation: Software-Defined Assets in DagsterOptimizing Data Materialization Using Dagster’s PoliciesHow I use Dagster to orchestrate the production of social science data assets
Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by Benn Stancil, CTO and Founder at Mode to talk about their recent acquisition by ThoughtSpot, the economics of the modern data stack and how AI and LLMs could likely become our industry’s next discontinuity.We don’t need another SQL chatbotThe new philosophersThoughtSpot acquires Mode Analytics, a BI platform, for $200M in cash and stockChatGPT-Powered Data Analysis using Cube, Delphi and the Code Interpreter Plugin
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Artyom Keydunov, Founder at Cube to talk about embedded analytics and Cube's origin story, headless BI, query acceleration and how Cube and Delphi enable an AI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layer.Empower uniquely insightful AI & LLM data experiencesAI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layerDefine metrics upstream to align your teamHow Rittman Analytics Delivers the Semantic Layer Today with CubeRittman Analytics Cube Quickstart
Hightouch co-Founder and co-CEO Tejas Manohar returns as special guest to talk with Mark Rittman about the reverse ETL market today, the evolution of the composable customer data platform and new featured in Hightouch to enrich customer profiles and drive personalization across marketing campaigns.Reverse ETL is Dead (Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Post)Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to HubspotYou don't need the Modern Data Stack to get sh*t doneHightouch Customer StudioHightouch Personalization APIHightouch Match BoosterWhat's in Store for Data Teams in 2023?
Mark is joined by Shinji Kim, Founder and CEO of Select Star to talk about their mission to re-invent data catalogs, data discovery and data lineage for the modern data stackData Discovery vs. Data Observability: Understanding the Differences for Better DataOpsSelect Star and dbt Labs Partner for Better Data Discovery on dbtSelect Star : Free Trial
Mark Rittman is joined by Jason Pohl, Senior Director of Data Management at Databricks along with special co-host and Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce, Stewart Bryson to talk about data lakehouses, Databricks and helping to raise tigers in a Thai Tiger Temple.Databricks - A HistoryWhat is a Delta Lake?The Databricks Lakehouse PlatformDatabricks SQLJason Pohl LinkedIn ProfileLions and Tigers and a Bear named Maam MaamStewart Bryson Github profileCoalesce.io
Mark Rittman is joined by Twilio Segment Head of Product Kevin Niparko to talk about trends in the customer data platform market, Reverse ETL and Profiles Sync, the impact of LLMs (Large Language Models) on digital customer experience and Segment Unify, a consumer scale real-time identity resolution solution that provides complete, real-time, portable customer profiles.Segment Unify is here: complete, real-time, portable customer profilesActivate warehouse data in all of your destination toolsCustomer profiles made portableDrill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer Data Platform' with Special Guest Eric DoddsDrill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar
Mark Rittman is joined by David Jayatillake, CEO and co-founder of Delphi Labs, to talk about the role of semantic models and the marketplace today, large language models and the phenomena that is ChatGPT, and how Delphi Labs are planning on bringing AI to Slack and the modern data stack.https://www.delphihq.com/#abouthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jayatillake/details/experience/For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?LinkedIn post on rationale behind Delphi Labs product developmentDelphi - Jaffle Shop DemoSemantic Superiority - Part 1 and Part 2Semantic Search product featureLLM Implications on Analytics (and Analysts!)“Is This You?” Entity Matching in the Modern Data Stack with Large Language models and github repoChatGPT, Large Language Models and the Future of dbt and Analytics ConsultingRA Assistant
Joining Mark Rittman for this 101st Episode Special for the Drill to Detail Podcast is Tristan Handy, CEO and Founder of dbt Labs talking about what went right at RJ Metrics, how the Analyst Collective led to today’s community around the open-source dbt project and his personal journey from being in the lab building Fishtown Analytics to CEO of today’s hottest data analytics startup … and why he secretly wishes he was Mark (according to Mark).Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein (Drill to Detail Podcast)My $2.6 Billion Ecosystem Fail: an RJMetrics Post Mortem (Bob Moore)How Best-in-Class eCommerce Businesses Achieve 230% Growth (2x eCommerce)Introducing the RA Warehouse dbt Framework : How Rittman Analytics Does Data Centralization using dbt, Google BigQuery, Stitch and Looker (Rittman Analytics Blog)Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics (Tristan Handy)Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy (Drill to Detail Podcast)Analytics is a Trade (Tristan Handy)Analyst Collective website (via the Internet Archive)Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint (SlideShare)Fishtown Analytics : Frequently-Asked Questions (via the Internet Archive)Ep 41: dbt Labs + Transform join forces on metrics w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin (Analytics Engineering Podcast via Spotify)
Joining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson (previously CEO at Red Pill Analytics, now Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce) and joining us mid-way through the show as our even more special mystery guest, Jake Stein (previously Co-Founder and COO at RJ Metrics, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and now CEO and Co-Founder at Common Paper.Drill to Detail Past Episodes discussed on the show were:Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart BrysonDrill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel MintzDrill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan HandyDrill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent GrazianoDrill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart BrysonDrill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad FarkashDrill to Detail Ep.99 “Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?” with Special Guest Chris TabbOther show notes below:Gartner Makes it Official: The Age of Self-Service Is Upon UsRJMetrics Acquired by Magento Commerce, Pipeline is now StitchThe Startup Founders’ Guide to Analytics - Tristan HandyAnalyzing Drill to Detail Podcast Stats using HexGoogle Completes Looker AcquisitionCommon PaperRittman Analytics : How We WorkDrill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin ZimaCoalesce : Start Free
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series, with Mark Rittman joined by Special Guest Chris Tabb, Co-Founder & CCO at LEIT DATA, to discuss dimensional models and data meshes, when to bring in a consultant and to answer the question on everyone’s lips right now … “is the modern data stack dead”?#meandatastreets on LinkedInImplementing Usage-Based Billing with Hightouch and the Cloud Data Warehouse“Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?”
Mark Rittman is joined by Izzy Miller to talk about Hex, a collaborative data platform that brings everyone together to explore, analyze, and share … and why the future of notebooks isn’t just about notebooks.Hex website Public app gallery of example Hex projects .Dataframe SQL announcement Hex for Analytics EngineersTweet thread about why the python / sql debate is boring"The Sharing Gap"