Mark Rittman is joined each episode by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Michale Drogalis, Product Manager at Confluent to talk about the history of Apache Kafka and real-time stream processing, the origins of kSQL and kSQLdb and the rationale and use-cases addressed by these products. ksqldDB product homepage Introducing ksqlDB Blog Post Kafka Streams vs. ksqlDB Blog Post...
Mark Rittman is joined by Eldad Farkash, Co-Founder and CEO at Firebolt to talk about SiSense and Panorama, the history of cloud data warehouses and how Firebolt's technology delivers query results 4-6000x faster than Snowflake, Redshift and AWS Athena. Snowflake’s Co-Founder Marcin Żukowski Reflects On His Time At CWI Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica & MonetDB Eldad Farkash, inventor of In-Chip technology, takes top honors with IT Software (Individual) award Firebolt Touts Massive Speedup...
Maxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apache Superset and now Preset.io, why the future of business intelligence is open source and news on Marquez, a reference implementation of the OpenLineage open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata sponsored by WeWork. The Rise of the Data Engineer Drill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jeff Pollock, Vice President Product Development for Fast Data at Oracle, to talk about the history of Oracle Data Integration from Warehouse Builder and Sunopsis to the move to the cloud and today’s distributed “data mesh”, based around Oracle’s fast data product, Oracle GoldenGate. Technology Brief : Dynamic Data Fabric and Trusted Data Mesh using the Oracle GoldenGate Platform Data Mesh Part 1: Future of Data Integration with a Deep Dive into GoldenGa...
Mark Rittman is joined by Tejas Manohar from Hightouch to talk about the concept of "reverse ETL", his journey from working on Segment's Personas product to co-founding Hightouch and his recent guest post on the Fivetran Blog, "Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse". Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse Hightouch Ushers In The Era Of Operational Analytics Hightouch homepage Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to Hubspot using BigQuery, dbt, Looke...
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivered dbt Data Source Freshness Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQL Why Testing Your Data Is Insufficient...
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics along with Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics. Coalesce 2020 Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen Snowflake Stock Has More Than Tripled Since Its IPO. CEO Frank Slootman Explains What’s Next. Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise A License to build the future...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker development by automating and abstracting the process of LookML development. Futuremodel Homepage Futuremodel Early Access Beta Program
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users. Spectacles product homepage and early access program Data Tests in Looker Automated testing in the modern data warehouse #JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookML Continuous Integration and Automated B...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations. Meltano homepage and quickstart demo Hey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for you Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipeli...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache Airflow and career path options for data engineers. How should I structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog) Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog) The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog) Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog) ...
Mark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics to talk about scaling modern data stack projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do ...
In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery. “A COVID-19 Dashboard for Massachusetts using Looker and BigQuery” - Hashpath.com blog “The Virus Survival Str...
We return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and friends won the recent Looker Join 2019 Hackathon event in San Francisco. Keboola homepage “DataOps is NOT Just DevOps for Data” - Data Kitchen Blog - Looker Brings the Data Community Together at JOIN 2019...
Mark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecosystems and their new customer data platform service, Segment Personas. analytics.js: The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application (Github.com) The Million Dollar Engineering Problem (Segment Blog) Tracking Customer Email Marketing Interactions using Segment Personas and Connections (Rittman ...
Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics tools Lantrns Analytics Rittman Analytics "How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics "How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views. Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL) Oracle9i OLAP uncovered Overview of Analytic Views...
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform. JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1 GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at Looker HotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven Business Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Int...
In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups. CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London CRAP Talks on Slack Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Intern...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019. Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for free Watch Summit 2019 Keynotes Snowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Mod...
Mark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI in the marketplace, recent acquisitions in the analytics marketplace and the recent Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch, California. Oracle Analytics Summit Oracle Analytics Summit Recap Oracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product Tour Oracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a s...
Mark Rittman, Founder and CEO of Rittman Analytics is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by returning guests Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of Fishtown Analytics and Stewart Bryson, Founder and CEO of Red Pill Analytics to talk about the recent acquisitions of Looker by Google Cloud Platform and Tableau by Salesforce, the wider story about consolidation in the BI industry and whether the trend in analytics tools is towards enterprise features … or open source? Five Thoughts on the...
In this special edition of the Drill to Detail Podcast hosted by Stewart Bryson, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Pill Analytics, he is joined by Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira, Developer Advocates at Confluent, to talk about Apache Kafka and Confluent, event-first thinking and streaming real-time analytics. Confluent Download: https://www.confluent.io/download/ Demo: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo/ Slack group: http://cnfl.io/slack Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/con...
Mark Rittman is joined by Dylan Baker, freelance analytics consultant, to talk about thinking probabalistically, analytics within venture-funded startups, devops and its role in scaling-out the modern BI stack. dbanalytics.co lookeraccess utility Annie Duke – Wanna Bet? – [Invest Like the Best, EP.125] London dbt Meetup #2...
Mark Rittman is joined by Matthew Halliday to talk about the challenge of ETL and analytics on complex relational OLTP data models, previous attempts to solve these problems with products such as Oracle Essbase and Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca and how those experiences, and others, led to his current role as co-founder and VP of Products at Incorta. The Death of the Star Schema: 3 Key Innovations Driving the Rapid Demise Accelerating Analytics with Direct Data Mapping Acc...
Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping a €2M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team. Announc...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management at Google for Google BigQuery, to talk about the history of BigQuery and its technology origins in Dremel; how BigQuery has evolved since its original release to handle a wide range of data warehouse workloads; and new features announced for BigQuery at Google Next’19 including BI Engine, Storage API, Connected Sheets and a range of new data connectors from Supermetrics and Fivetran. Modern Data Warehousing w...
Mark Rittman is joined by returning Special Guest Jake Stein, former co-founder and CEO of Stitch and now SVP of Stitch at Talend to talk about the evolution of the data pipeline-as-a-service, data catalogs and data governance and the vision behind Talend’s acquisition of Stitch. ”The Vision behind Talend's acquisition of Stitch” “Stitch is joining Talend” “dbt: Analytics Engineering that Works” Talend homepage...
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Mike Ferguson, long-term analyst, consultant and Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies to talk about data warehouse modernization, analytics and big data project success within enterprise customers and the re-emergence of interest in data governance and master data management within the industry.
Mark Rittman is joined by DataRobot’s Jordan Meyer to discuss Kaggle, machine learning, deep neural networks and his team’s strategy to win the $1m ZIllow Prize, beating over 1000 other teams to come up with the most accurate home value prediction. Zillow Prize: Zillow's Home Value Prediction (Zestimate) | Kaggle And the Zillow Prize Goes to…Team ChaNJestimate! Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimate https://github.com/jordanmeyer Data Scientist ...
