Drill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer Data Platform' with Special Guest Eric Dodds

Mark Rittman is joined by Eric Dodds to talk about Rudderstack's founding story and open-source roots, Segment compatibility and event-based pricing vs. MTUs and Rudderstack's "Warehouse-First" approach to building customer data platforms.

• Rudderstack's Data Stack : Deep Dive

• Introducing RudderStack Cloud: The Warehouse-First CDP for Developers

• Rudderstack, Snowplow and Open-Source CDP Alternatives to Segment

• How Twilio is Shaping Segment

• Event-Based Analytics (and BigQuery Export) comes to Google Analytics 4; How Does It Work… and What’s the Catch?

• Why (and How) Customer Data Warehouses are the New Customer Data Platform

• Why Take a Warehouse-First Approach to Analytics

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

Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin

Maxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apache Superset and now Preset.io, why the future of business intelligence is open source and news on Marquez, a reference implementation of the OpenLineage open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata sponsored by WeWork.

• The Rise of the Data Engineer

• Drill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset & The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin

• Apache Airflow 2.0 is here!

• Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform

• The Future of Business Intelligence is Open Source

• Powerful, easy to use data exploration and visualization platform, powered by Apache Superset™

• Admunsen: Open source data discovery and metadata engine

• OpenLineage

• Marquez: Collect, aggregate, and visualize a data ecosystem's metadata

Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker LookML development by abstracting the Looker model, removing the need to write LookML code and automating the development process.

• Futuremodel Homepage

• Futuremodel Early Access Beta Program

Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen

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