Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo.

• Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivered

• dbt Data Source Freshness

• Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo

• Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQL

• Why Testing Your Data Is Insufficient

Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review & Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics along with Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics.

• Coalesce 2020

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

• Snowflake Stock Has More Than Tripled Since Its IPO. CEO Frank Slootman Explains What’s Next.

• Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise

• A License to build the future

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.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users.

• Spectacles product homepage and early access program

• Data Tests in Looker

• Automated testing in the modern data warehouse

• #JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookML

• Continuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud

Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan

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