Drill to Detail

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 as Singer Taps and dbt transformations.

Meltano homepage and quickstart demo

Hey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for you

Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots

Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelines

Singer - Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

dbt Models - Everything is a select

Meltano Slack Community

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 structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog)

Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog)

The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog)

Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog)

Test SQL Pipelines against Production Clones using DBT and Snowflake (Dan Gooden)

HubSpot Data Actions, Harvest Analytical Workflows and Looker Data Platform (Rittman Analytics Blog)

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 projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do we scale concepts such as agile and analytics as engineering beyond our initial champion and data team?

The dbt Viewpoint

Fishtown Analytics and Drew Banin

Multi-Channel Marketing Attribution using Segment, Google BigQuery, dbt and Looker

Getting Started with dbt.

Red Pill Analytics

In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery.

“A COVID-19 Dashboard for Massachusetts using Looker and BigQuery” - Hashpath.com blog

“The Virus Survival Strategy for your Startup"

“COVID-19: Implications for business” - McKinsey

“As COVID-19 data sets become more accessible, novel coronavirus pandemic may be most visualized ever” - ZDNet.com

“Leave COVID-19 analysis to the experts” - Japan Times

We return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and friends won the recent Looker Join 2019 Hackathon event in San Francisco.

Keboola homepage

“DataOps is NOT Just DevOps for Data” - Data Kitchen Blog -

Looker Brings the Data Community Together at JOIN 2019

Mark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecosystems and their new customer data platform service, Segment Personas.

analytics.js: The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application (Github.com)

The Million Dollar Engineering Problem (Segment Blog)

Tracking Customer Email Marketing Interactions using Segment Personas and Connections (Rittman Analytics Blog)

Segment Personas product homepage

Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics tools

Lantrns Analytics

Rittman Analytics

"How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics

"How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views.

Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL)

Oracle9i OLAP uncovered

Overview of Analytic Views

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform.

JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1

GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at Looker

HotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven Business

Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups.

CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London

CRAP Talks on Slack

Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation)

McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)