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Drill to Detail Ep.117 ‘How DataCoves Operationalises the Modern Data Stack’ featuring Special Guest Noel Gomez
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 seman
Drill to Detail Ep.116 ‘Spotify, Semantic Layers and Steep’s Metrics-First Approach to BI Tools’ with Special Guest Johan Baltzar
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 Spotifys growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steeps metr
Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao
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 — Airbn
Drill to Detail Ep.114 ‘Building a Solopreneur Data Analytics Consultancy’ with Special Guest Christian Steinert
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 Anal
Drill to Detail Ep. 113 ‘Data Teams, Portable and Data Integration’s Long Tail’ featuring Special Guest Ethan Aaron
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if youre 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
Drill to Detail Ep.112 ‘From Delphi to Cube’s New Semantic Model AI Features’ with Special Guest David Jayatillake
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 Cubes new AI features within its composable semantic model product
Drill to Detail Ep.111 'Making Analytics Fun, Frictionless and Ducking Awesome' with Special Guest Jordan Tigani
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.
Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng
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.Dril
Drill to Detail Ep.109 'Dagster, Orchestration and Software-Defined Assets' with Special Guest Nick Schrock
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 main
Drill to Detail Ep.108 "Mode, ThoughtSpot and AI as the Next Discontinuity" with Special Guest Benn Stancil
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