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.
Product News Slack DMs: George and Tristan discuss the future of Fivetran and dbt Fivetran's new native integration with dbt seems to be directly competitive with Fishtown Analytics' commercial offering, dbt Cloud, but is it? Here's why we don't see it that way, and why we think this is a great thing for the ecosystem.
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.
How-To How to safely convert strings to integers in Redshift This is a very stupid problem. I am not writing this post because it’s a fascinating topic—rather, I’m writing it in the hopes that you avoid the headaches I've gone through.
How-To “How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?” I got this question on my last post. It is a good one, and one that I’ve gotten a bunch of times over the past year and a half. This post is my attempt to answer it.
How-To How to Integrate dbt and Looker with User Attributes dbt and Looker were built with the same ethos: analysts should be working in code.
How-To How to design your Looker Explores Frequently asked questions about Looker explores and how to design them very well.
Opinion The missing layers of the analytics stack Modular analytics tools allow companies to choose components to fit their needs and switch out or augment components as their needs change. Here's what I think is missing from the market.
