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Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin
April 12, 2021

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 Ma

Drill to Detail Ep.87 'Sunopsis, Fast Data and Oracle Data Integration's Data Mesh' with Special Guest Jeff Pollock
March 29, 2021

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 today’s distributed “data mesh”

Drill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar
March 15, 2021

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 Plat

Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses
March 03, 2021

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

Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review & Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson
December 08, 2020

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode

Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark
July 28, 2020

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 HomepageFuturemodel Early Access Beta Program

Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple
June 04, 2020

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 r

Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan
May 19, 2020

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

Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore
May 05, 2020

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 structu

Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson
April 20, 2020

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