Drill to Detail Ep.119 ‘Data Control Planes, SDF Labs and dbt Cloud Visual Editor’ with Special Guest Greg McKeon

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg McKeon, Staff Product Manager at dbt Labs to talk about their recent acquisition of SDF Labs, the vision for dbt as the control plane for data collaboration at-scale and the upcoming drag-and-drop Visual Editor that’s soon to be part of dbt Cloud.

• dbt Cloud: The control plane for data collaboration at scale

• About the Visual Editor

• Coalesce 2024 and the Launch of dbt’s Visual Editing Experience

• dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs to Introduce Robust SQL Comprehension into dbt and Supercharge Developer Efficiency

• Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao

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Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake

Mark Rittman is joined by David Jayatillake, CEO and co-founder of Delphi Labs, to talk about the role of semantic models and the marketplace today, large language models and the phenomena that is ChatGPT, and how Delphi Labs are planning on bringing AI to Slack and the modern data stack.

• https://www.delphihq.com/#about

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jayatillake/details/experience/

• For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

• LinkedIn post on rationale behind Delphi Labs product development

• Delphi - Jaffle Shop Demo

• Semantic Superiority - Part 1 and Part 2

• Semantic Search product feature

• LLM Implications on Analytics (and Analysts!)

• “Is This You?” Entity Matching in the Modern Data Stack with Large Language models and github repo

• ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the Future of dbt and Analytics Consulting

• RA Assistant

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Drill to Detail Ep.101 ‘The Story Behind the Story of RJ Metrics, Fishtown Analytics and dbt Labs’ with Special Guest Tristan Handy

Joining Mark Rittman for this 101st Episode Special for the Drill to Detail Podcast is Tristan Handy, CEO and Founder of dbt Labs talking about what went right at RJ Metrics, how the Analyst Collective led to today’s community around the open-source dbt project and his personal journey from being in the lab building Fishtown Analytics to CEO of today’s hottest data analytics startup … and why he secretly wishes he was Mark (according to Mark).

• Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein (Drill to Detail Podcast)

• My $2.6 Billion Ecosystem Fail: an RJMetrics Post Mortem (Bob Moore)

• How Best-in-Class eCommerce Businesses Achieve 230% Growth (2x eCommerce)

• Introducing the RA Warehouse dbt Framework : How Rittman Analytics Does Data Centralization using dbt, Google BigQuery, Stitch and Looker (Rittman Analytics Blog)

• Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics (Tristan Handy)

• Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy (Drill to Detail Podcast)

• Analytics is a Trade (Tristan Handy)

• Analyst Collective website (via the Internet Archive)

• Building a Mature Analytics Workflow: The Analyst Collective Viewpoint (SlideShare)

• Fishtown Analytics : Frequently-Asked Questions (via the Internet Archive)

• Ep 41: dbt Labs + Transform join forces on metrics w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin (Analytics Engineering Podcast via Spotify)

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Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein

Joining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson (previously CEO at Red Pill Analytics, now Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce) and joining us mid-way through the show as our even more special mystery guest, Jake Stein (previously Co-Founder and COO at RJ Metrics, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and now CEO and Co-Founder at Common Paper.

Drill to Detail Past Episodes discussed on the show were:

• Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

• Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz

• Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy

• Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano

• Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson

• Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash

• Drill to Detail Ep.99 “Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?” with Special Guest Chris Tabb

Other show notes below:

• Gartner Makes it Official: The Age of Self-Service Is Upon Us

• RJMetrics Acquired by Magento Commerce, Pipeline is now Stitch

• The Startup Founders’ Guide to Analytics - Tristan Handy

• Analyzing Drill to Detail Podcast Stats using Hex

• Google Completes Looker Acquisition

• Common Paper : Contracts Should Be APIs

• Rittman Analytics : How We Work

• Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima

• Coalesce : Start Free

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Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses dbt as its metrics layer and semantic model.

• Lightdash.com

• What is the dbt Metrics Layer?

• Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer

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