Drill to Detail Ep.116 ‘Spotify, Semantic Layers and Steep’s Metrics-First Approach to BI Tools’ with Special Guest Johan Baltzar

Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.

• The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders

• Steep homepage

• New in Steep : Cube and dbt  

• Targets & BI - How hard can it be?

Drill to Detail Ep.111 'Making Analytics Fun, Frictionless and Ducking Awesome' with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

Mark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck to talk about the journey from big data to small data and bringing hybrid cloud execution to DuckDB.

• Big Data is Dead

• Teach Your Duckdb To Fly

• Announcing Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb From Your Laptop Into The Cloud

• Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product Manager at Google Cloud to talk about Malloy, a new query language to replace SQL for analytics.

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

• Malloy : An experimental language for data

• A Sequel to SQL? An introduction to Malloy

• Why SQL syntax sucks, and why it matters

• Composing with Queries

• Dimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy Special

• Data is Rectangular and other Limiting Misconceptions

• Malloy's Near Term Roadmap

Drill to Detail Ep.109 'Dagster, Orchestration and Software-Defined Assets' with Special Guest Nick Schrock

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem and software defined assets, a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance.

• Introducing Software-Defined Assets

• Rethinking Orchestration as Reconciliation: Software-Defined Assets in Dagster

• Optimizing Data Materialization Using Dagster’s Policies

• How I use Dagster to orchestrate the production of social science data assets

Drill to Detail Ep.108 "Mode, ThoughtSpot and AI as the Next Discontinuity" with Special Guest Benn Stancil

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by Benn Stancil, CTO and Founder at Mode to talk about their recent acquisition by ThoughtSpot, the economics of the modern data stack and how AI and LLMs could likely become our industry’s next discontinuity.

• We don’t need another SQL chatbot

• The new philosophers

• ThoughtSpot acquires Mode Analytics, a BI platform, for $200M in cash and stock

• ChatGPT-Powered Data Analysis using Cube, Delphi and the Code Interpreter Plugin