Drill to Detail

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Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson
March 09, 2022

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson
March 09, 2022

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

Drill to Detail Ep.92 'dbt, Spectacles and Making Testing Sexy' with Special Guests Dylan Baker and Josh Temple
June 23, 2021

We're joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by Dylan Baker and Josh Temple to talk about developing multi-layer modern data stack projects, Spectacles recently released integration with dbt and what's now possible with their new public APIExtending S

Drill to Detail Ep.92 'dbt, Spectacles and Making Testing Sexy' with Special Guests Dylan Baker and Josh Temple
June 23, 2021

We're joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by Dylan Baker and Josh Temple to talk about developing multi-layer modern data stack projects, Spectacles’ recently released integration with dbt and what's now possible with their new public APIExtending S

Drill to Detail Ep.91 'GraphQL, Data Platform Engineers and Dagster' With Special Guest Nick Schrock
June 01, 2021

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Nick Schrock, ex-Facebook Engineer and now Founder of Elementl to talk about GraphQL, data platform engineers and @dagsterio, a data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL.

Drill to Detail Ep.91 'GraphQL, Data Platform Engineers and Dagster' With Special Guest Nick Schrock
June 01, 2021

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Nick Schrock, ex-Facebook Engineer and now Founder of Elementl to talk about GraphQL, data platform engineers and @dagsterio, a data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL.

Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis
May 20, 2021

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.

Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis
May 20, 2021

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.

Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash
April 28, 2021

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.

Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash
April 28, 2021

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.