Licensing dbt: Apache 2.0, BSL, and Proprietary The metrics layer generated a lot of buzz at Coalesce, prompting some exciting and important conversations. In short: the dbt Server that will make metrics accessible will be source available. This will provide users control, while enabling us to build a sustainable business.
Product News On DAGs, Hierarchies, and IDEs With the DAG-in-the-IDE (now available to all dbt Cloud users), analytics engineers can seamlessly navigate the core structure of their dbt project with low friction and low cognitive load, making the entire development process more intuitive, pleasant, and efficient.
Company News Of the Community, By the Community, For the Community Fishtown Analytics– now dbt Labs– was founded to bring analytics engineering to everyone. $150m in new funding will fuel the next phase of that journey.
Opinion The Modern Data Stack: Past, Present, and Future My thoughts on where our space has been and where it might be going.
Company News A License to build the future Fishtown Analytics has raised $29.5m in a Series B financing. New investor Sequoia Capital led the round with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Amplify Partners participating. Matt Miller of Sequoia joined our board.
Opinion Welcome! You're now a software developer. I originally wrote this as a part of our new analyst onboarding program back in June of 2017, shared with new analysts on their first day. It's as true today
Product News Slack DMs: George and Tristan discuss the future of Fivetran and dbt June 11, 2021 update – This post hasn’t aged as well as I would’ve hoped. George makes a strong statement in it: “Fivetran is not fundamentally a company that
Company News A Note to dbt Service Providers Fishtown Analytics started as a consulting company that competed with other dbt service providers. We are now a venture backed software company and our business model has fundamentally changed. Our relationship with dbt service providers is now 100% partnership.
Product News Welcome to the dbt ecosystem Two amazing companies in the modern data stack–Fivetran and Census–have launched major integrations with dbt. Here's why I'm excited about this.
Opinion Are dashboards dead? A recent post, Dashboards are Dead, sparked a conversation about the future of data reporting.
Company News Four Years In: From Misfits to Mainstream dbt is no longer a niche product and dbt Slack is no longer a community of misfits...we’ve gone mainstream, folks.
Company News Analytics engineering for everyone The inability to bridge the chasm between IT and the business is the core dysfunction in modern data teams, and it’s also the biggest opportunity for progress.
Opinion Analytics Engineering: Operating with Leverage If your time is valuable, it should be important to you to operate with the highest possible leverage. This allows you to get more done with your fixed number of hours. Simple. Here's how analysts can operate with leverage.
How-To Four questions to help accurately scope analytics engineering projects Data teams are successful when they build reserves of trust. One important way to build trust is by consistently delivering projects on time. Here are four questions we've found to be useful in helping us spot the potholes that derail analytics engineering projects.
Company News Three years in: things are heating up 680 companies use dbt every week, 2100 members of dbt Slack, dbt Cloud processed 140k jobs from 200 accounts in June, and we're hosting regular dbt Meetups in 3 cities (NY, SF, London). What a year!
Opinion A wave of acquisitions in business intelligence Holy crap! Within the past week we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau.
How-To How to unnest arrays in Redshift Unnesting arrays on Redshift is a pain, but it’s doable. This post walks through the entire process, start to finish.
Opinion Pricing-vision fit Thoughts on pricing strategy and what it communicates about your company's vision for the future of the market you're in.
Building data teams Does my startup data team need a data engineer? The role of the data engineer in a startup data team is changing rapidly. Are you thinking about it the right way?
Product News Scaling knowledge The hardest thing about scaling a company is communication. Here's how our latest release will make data communication just a little bit easier.
Company News Two years in and it's just getting good This week marks the second anniversary of Fishtown Analytics. Here's what we learned.
How-To How compatible are Redshift and Snowflake’s SQL syntaxes? I just went through the process of converting 25,000 lines of SQL from Redshift to Snowflake. Here are my notes.
